Publicity shot of GOP gubernatorial candidate Greg Brophy and his lovely family:

[El Supremo]

http://coloradopols.com/diary/45728/caption-this-photo-brophy-first-family-edition

I just don't know what to say. Do any of our gun rights people know what king of guns those are? Especially that monster that Brophy is holding?

[Mr. David]

1. oh yeah, that'll win hearts and minds of Coloradans.

/me watches the crash and burn of the Colorado Republican Party.

[lunasun]

2. Sick I do not live in CO but it has had some famous mass shootings so

maybe he feels this is a demographic to appeal to!!!

[abbeyco]

13. But, but, but....

their awesome firepower would save them and so many others from being killed in any one of our famous mass shootings.

I shouldn't need to add it but here you go:

[Skinner]

3. I'm trying to find some independent verification of this. I think it might be real.

The only place I've seen this is on the coloradopols.com website linked in your OP. As far as I can tell, it doesn't appear on his campaign website.

But their clothing matches the clothes on the family pic from his website: http://gregforgovernor.com/about





So, I think it was taken during the same photo shoot. Creepy.

[wercal]

6. Is junior standing on Dad's foot?

[TheMadMonk]

33. High heels I think. /nt

[El Supremo]

7. Thanks. This one is on his web site:

[lunasun]

10. Perhaps the lower is for "select " fundraising distribution only not public campaign website

[demwing]

4. Daughter to the left has Bachmann eyes

made all the more frightening by the large rifle she's pointing at her brother's kneecap.

[demwing]

5. Brother, btw, holds a gun like he's urinating through a fire hose. /nt

[heaven05]

15. that

was my first thought. "damn she doesn't know how to hold a weapon".

[ladym55]

17. If I were little brother, I'd make SURE I didn't irritate my sister

She looks like she's aiming that thing right at him.

[appleannie1]

8. I am glad they are not my neighbors. Armed clowns are not known for being safe to be around.

[Anansi1171]

9. As for the guns...

The daughters are holding M-4's.

The Son looks to have a Glock 9mm given its square edging, its lite and would be a good fit for smaller hands, but it could be a Barretta or some other 9mm handgun.

Mom's holding a 16-guage pump-action shot gun.

I can't ID the body of Dad's sniper-rifle.

If anyone has corrections or knows better, please share.

[Ready4Change]

32. My guesses

I doubt the daughters are holding M-4s. Far more likely to be one of the multitude of AR-15 variants, maybe chambered in .223, possibly chambered in .22LR. (.223 is near military power. 22LR has considerably less power.)

The sons is probably a Glock. The slide does have the Glocks square edges, but some others, like some Taurus models, have that as well. Maybe has modified grips?

I was thinking the mothers shotgun is probably a Remington. I was thinking 12 gauge, but could well be 16 gauge. Looks to have an extended ammo tube, and the green line at the end of the barrel are sights to help with shooting in low light conditions. Those features are often found on shotguns meant for home defense.

The fathers rifle is probably an AR-10 variant (like an AR-15, but larger, heavier and meant to fire a larger, more powerful round.) Could be .308, but more likely .338, which is kind of a fashion statement amongst those in the 'mines bigger' firearm crowd.

All have their fingers visibly outside of the trigger guards, which is good. Daughter in the left side of the photo has the barrel of her AR closer to her brothers legs than I am comfortable with. Might just be the angle of the photo, but I'd have adjusted her position and taken another picture. This is something common with group fire arm photos, and it bugs the snot out of me.

I'm surprised at what is NOT present: a dedicated hunting rifle. When these type of photos are taken a bolt action, wood stocked hunting rifle is usually in there somewhere, for PR if nothing else. Says to me this is not meant to cater to 'rural' interests. Its meant for more hard core 2nd Amendment rights people. AR's, home defense shotgun, handgun, all resonate with that crowd.

[Blue Owl]

11. "If my Brophy wife doesn't clean my guns every week, she gets a spanking."

n/t

[abbeyco]

12. He's a whackadoo

While I get that this is standard material for any rethug family Christmas card, howdy doody brophy is never gonna be Gov - he's just too damned stupid and extreme.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Looks to me like he's trying to make up for something. What is he? 5' 4"?

[catbyte]

16. Ew. Yuck

I'm hazarding a guess that Brophy suffers from Little Man Syndrome, hence him holding a big, big gun--in fact, he's got the BIGGEST gun. I'll bet the POS also drives a Hummer. I'd also bet he got an Atomic Wedgie every day in gym class just before being stuffed in his locker. Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Sigmund Freud, you have an urgent call on line 2...

I don't know whether to or or

I could do all 3, sigh.

[Scuba]

19. Bingo.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. I think the atomic wedgie was a problem for every young GOPer.

This guy looks more like the, head first dip in the urinal type to me, but he must have some dough, or else why the decent looking wife?

I'll bet he sent that wife and those daughters to Karate class, so they can protect him from any adult wedgies

[kestrel91316]

30. Here's a GOPer I knew in junior high:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_Quarles

He was the biggest nerd in our school - wore a tie, carried a briefcase. Junior version of his attorney dad. He wasn't a bad person, but he is and was a true-believing Mormon and as such is dangerously conservative.

He got wedgies and the equivalent all day long.

[Hubert Flottz]

38. I can see why he got the treatment!

He can't be up to any good, to this day! An atomic mega-wedgie looses most of it's zing, when applied to republicans with their heads up their ass 24/7. Sometimes you need to go medieval, with a swift pivot kick to the nut-sak, followed by the stealing of his best girlfriend. Hopefully she don't require a daily atomic mega-wedgie, but just some simple deprograming and a quick brain transplant and 100% makeover.

[toby jo]

18. Long ride ahead on the evolutionary thingy, Brophy.

[workinclasszero]

20. The teabag family that kills together, stays together?

Oh look, teabaggers standing their ground.

I'm a gun owner but this gun cult of the teabaggers is sickening.

I wish these cretins could move to their own insane part of the world and leave the rest of us alone

[Hubert Flottz]

22. These types will fuck it up until everyone's guns really will be at risk country wide someday soon.

Like the drug addicts, that have screwed things up so that someone in pain can't hardly get pain meds, when they really are suffering.

[southernyankeebelle]

23. Gosh he looks like a little man doesn''t he? Really insecure looking if you ask me. So

this is suppose to get him elected?

[cheapdate]

25. Because, you know, they may have to get into a shootout with a tyrannical government.

[Ian David]

26. Which one is the head wife? n/t

[SunSeeker]

35. ...

[Pholus]

27. Auditioning to be an "evil" survivor band in Walking Dead? nt

[matthews]

28. I wonder what in the world makes people do things that

make them look like radical nutcases.

I would be more impressed if they all took up working in a soup kitchen or doing the Habitat for Humanity thing, or anything that is of BENEFIT to this country.

What are those things called that people used to embroider that were old sayings or Bible verses or whatever? The things that they used to hang up on the walls. What would be this family's embroidered motto?

"Blessed are the meek as long as they have heavy artillery"?

"You'll have to pry the gun from my pubescent child's dead hands"?

"God helps those who have an AK-15"?

Good grief.

[madamesilverspurs]

29. Raising the kiddies

Bonnie and Clyde style.



Or maybe our Colorado elk herds are armed with nuclear warheads. . .

[secondvariety]

31. Kind of a little guy.

[SunSeeker]

34. Yup. Apparently he's got a lot of compensating to do. nt

[hue]

36. Yup, looks like the Napoleon complex...(def from Urban dictionary)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=napoleon%20complex

1.
A peronality complex that consists of power trips and false machismo to make up for short height and feelings of inferiority.

2.
A short person who feels inferior because of their size. They tend to take it out on other people and thrive on power trips. Shouting at others, especially when they are in a position of power, is common. Side affects include short temper, power trips/power-hungriness, anger issues, and often a bad sense of humor.

[KG]

37. oh, he's that special kind of shitbag.

"ACLUSUX" license plate[edit]

In 2009 Brophy registered his displeasure with the ACLU's proposed defense of an ILVTOFU proposed license plate by saying he might seek an ACLUSUX license plate. The ACLU responded that they would defend his right to that plate, to which Brophy asked if the ACLU would defend his right to have a Ten Commandments license plate.[11] Colorado ACLU Executive Director Cathryn Hazouri sent Rep. Brophy a letter offering her support:

"If you apply for that license and are refused, please contact the ACLU because we stand ready to represent you if you want to pursue your right to have that license plate... After all, censorship is censorship and the ACLU doesn’t draw any distinction between speech with which we agree and speech we may not like. That would be content discrimination and would violate one of our major principles of protecting free speech."[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brophy

[curlyred]

39. Not happening here

No way, no how.