Fake NRA program: "Share the Safety"

[Revet]

Anti-gun fanatics have done it again. They posted a fake NRA news release and "free gun" program, presumably to generate outrage or ridicule. But all they have really done is prove again how dishonest they are.

The FAKE NRA announcement: https://nrapress.org/articles/20160622/ ... he-safety/

The phony organization's website: https://sharethesafety.org

Snopes rebuttal: http://www.snopes.com/share-the-safety-nra/

[Revet]

I should have said: "anti-gun/anti-rights/anti-constitution fanatics."

[Skiprr]

Absolutely disgusting. And yet another reason to try to register any related domain names you can think of that might be used to masquerade as your organization.

The domain "nrapress.org" was registered just 20 days ago using a domain ownership masking service called "Whois Privacy Corp." in Nassau, Bahamas: http://www.whois.com/whois/nrapress.org.

The domain "sharethesafety.org" was similaryl created only recently, last May 19, and masked using the same Bahamas company: http://www.whois.com/whois/sharethesafety.org.

The NRA obviously never tries to hide or mask their valid domain ownerships. If I were the NRA, there would be some scary-good lawyers about to shut down--hard--these fake domains...and find out who was behind it.

[Revet]

Absolutely, I don't know much about how to go about such things, but I sure wish someone could determine who is behind it so they get the "credit" they so richly deserve.

[Skiprr]

Link to a Google results of "Hensley Cocker," the undoubtedly fictitious character leading the "Share the Safety" nonsense. The logo looks like my 9-year-old nephew did it, and they've even registered a fake "Hensley Cocker" Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/people/Hensley ... 2385022198). Facebook should find 'em and sue them, too.

I hope these idiots find themselves hit from all four sides with serious lawsuits.

[TexasJohnBoy]

How long till a cease and desist is issued? Is that the proper action when someone blatantly rips off your organization and copyright to slander it?

[treadlightly]

The site appears to be hosted at Cloud Flare, Inc, at 101 Townsend Street in gun-free San Francisco.

Ah, drat - Cloud Flare is a bandwidth provider. They aren't hosting it...

[Skiprr]

The site appears to be hosted at Cloud Flare, Inc, at 101 Townsend Street in gun-free San Francisco.

Ah, drat - Cloud Flare is a bandwidth provider. They aren't hosting it...

My suspicion from digging into tracert and whois is that both the bogus sites are hosted by TeliaSonera in Sweden. Of course, it isn't all that difficult to mask that, and the TeliaNet routes may be exactly that, a mask. My route leaves the AT&T CONUS trunk and hits two different TeliaNet IPs before linking back to cloudflare-ic-309901-atl-bb1.c.telia.net at CloudFlare before resolving to the final 104.18 address.

They're almost certainly not in the U.S. or a territory, but they can be found. I'm normally not a conspiracy theorist type, but wouldn't it be fascinating if someone could, with good evidence, link this non-US illegal activity to a Soros or Bloomberg funded anti-gun initiative?

[FastCarry]

Interesting, whoever is behind it went to decent lengths to make it happen.

I dont know if anyone here can dig deeper but I'm willing to bet it would be solved by Reddit in <24 hours.

[TreyHouston]

DANG!!! Houston was on the list to get free guns! I'm poor and can't afford the 1911 I want! Where do I sign up!!!!

[TomV]

Looking it over, it looks more like an elaborate scam to separate people from their money.

It looks like you purchase your weapon of choice through the website and they claim they send it to your FFL dealer. In reality, you send them your money and they disappear with your credit card info.

Just my opinion.

Scammers are getting creative.

[Revet]

Update:

The fake website and apparently others have been taken down as a result of NRA objection. The two individuals behind this and other hoaxes say they are on a campaign to "affect (sic) social change," obviously with deceit, ridicule and engineered rage being their weapons of choice.

The internet technology is beyond this senior's comprehension. I don't know anything about this site, but don't see any offensive language on this specific page.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/nra-co ... 0-websites

[mojo84]

Be a real shame if someone did that to Moms Demand Xanax...

Or Planned Murderhood.