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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Crickett website is currently down
Crickett is "My First Rifle" and was the gun used in the Kentucky five-year-old's My First Murder. If you try going to crickett.com, you get a Red Hat Linux test page, and if you go to the page Mother Jones has linked to, you get an Apache "file not found" error.
PDJane
(10,103 posts)Maybe they do have some shame. However, the squirrel rifle page, also for kids, is still up. The pictures of the kids with the rifles aren't there, though.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Check it out...
What a sick and twisted culture we live in. No wonder why the rest of the world just points and laughs.
jmowreader
(50,533 posts)It shows someone with, undoubtedly, a Crickett in a classic bird hunting pose, trusty Labrador by his side. It's strange because you don't hunt birds over dogs with a rifle, you do it with a shotgun.
One might think, well maybe he's hunting rabbits. No. Rabbit hunters use beagles or basset hounds.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Or maybe squirrels!
jmowreader
(50,533 posts)LAGC
(5,330 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)Or the company pulled it. Or it crashed because the last 24-48 hours have caused far more traffic to the site than they're used to. (Most likely option IMO)
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)The local news at 11 PM reported that the gun manufacturer has been inundated with e-mails. I can only imagine that those e-mails were not complimentary.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)go figure!