Ferguson:
Check out these guns at [url]http://www.birdman.org/products/products.htm[/url] I can't tell if they are real or if its a fake web site just click on the different products and you will see what I mean.
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Ferguson, BirdMan's site is just "tongue in cheek", but you're not the first one to wonder. FWIW, he is pro-2nd.
[url]http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBEMDSK3OC.html[/url]
Hoax angers city officials
Bogus flier promotes night sights as accessories for Glock handguns
BY WILL JONES"
"Are you offended by the 'HoMeBoY Nyte Sytes' flier?
For a few hours, Birdman Weapons Systems and the HoMeBoY Nyte-Sytes were prime targets in Richmond.
"They're advocating destruction on our streets, and they're targeting our people," Councilman G. Manoli Loupassi said. "That's about as bad as it gets."
Police Capt. Walter Allmon expressed similar outrage. He said a flier promoting the HoMeBoY is disturbing because it's designed to appeal to young black men, who often are the victims of gun violence in Richmond and elsewhere.
Allmon, who leads Richmond's detective division, brought the flier to the city's Public Safety Committee about three weeks ago and said it had been distributed that weekend at a gun show in Henrico County.
The flier, actually a printout from a Web site, urges would-be buyers to "be the first in the hood to have the HoMeBoY brand Night Sights installed on your New-Model Glock!"
It says orders are being accepted and shows pictures of a Glock handgun outfitted to allow sideways shooting "as seen in today's hit movies."
"Allows firing from car windows, over fences, bar counters, or simply while chasing someone through the hood!"
Birdman Weapons Systems promotes itself as providing "Unfriendly Products for an Unfriendly World." The flier gives specifications for the HoMeBoY, including its weight and size, as well as the Glock models on which it can be used.
Before realizing the HoMeBoY apparently isn't an actual product, Loupassi, chairman of the Public Safety Committee, was outraged.
"I believe that is indefensible, and I'm part of the pro-gun lobby," he told a reporter.
A few hours later, Loupassi gave copies of the flier to City Council members and said the state attorney general's office and the federal prosecutor's office should be asked to investigate.
"In my opinion, it does not get any worse than this," said Loupassi, a lawyer and former city prosecutor.
By the next day, Loupassi had discovered the HoMeBoY isn't real, and the Web site, Birdman.org, isn't a link to a weapons company. He expressed relief and considered the matter dropped. "It's a freedom-of-expression issue."
But he added, "I don't see the humor in it, because I've seen so many people die because of guns."
Birdman.org is registered to an address in Covington, Ky., according to the Web site networksolutions.com. The Times-Dispatch contacted Birdman by e-mail and got a coy response. The person refused to be identified except as Birdman. The Times-Dispatch also contacted by phone a woman who described herself as Birdman's mother.