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The Annoyed Man wrote:

rmr1923 wrote:

flintknapper wrote:

now THAT'S priceless

Oh Lordy! I had to stare at it for a minute to get the joke. My word. Is that a real goof, or did someone stage that as a joke?

funny story, about a year ago i took my wife out shopping for handguns and she really liked the H&Ks because of the safety/decocker. she was having a bit of trouble racking the slide so the salesman put one of those plastic bullets in the magazine to show her how to get the most amount of leverage when loading the gun. turns out he'd put the bullet in backwards and got it all jammed to hell in the barrel of the gun. when we left about 15 minutes later, someone was still trying to get it out.

flintknapper wrote: I’d love for someone to ‘splain this one to me though. (pretty sad).

They might have reversed every round in that mag. For sure the top two are reversed. And in an ad for a firearms manufacturer no less!!!

OldCurlyWolf wrote:

flintknapper wrote: I’d love for someone to ‘splain this one to me though. (pretty sad).

They might have reversed every round in that mag. For sure the top two are reversed. And in an ad for a firearms manufacturer no less!!!

Yeah, hopefully the ad was never distributed.

I am dead certain the folks at H&K know which way the bullets are supposed to face, but the photographer who set up the scene.... not so much.

I stared at that pic for quite a while...and when it finally hit me, I wondered who was dumber: me for not seeing it sooner, or the one who did that in the first place? Though I did finally settle on the other person, ha ha...

The Annoyed Man wrote:Oh Lordy! I had to stare at it for a minute to get the joke. My word. Is that a real goof, or did someone stage that as a joke?

Nope. That was a real, paid-for and published advertisement from a few years ago.

HK took some public heat for that. Evidently the ad firm was given leeway to produce the image, and no one at HK caught the oops before it went to press.

Not a pretty picture...