
S.F. approves this depiction of firearms, but the city still prohibits guns from being displayed in ads appearing on MTA venues.
Perhaps the fascists running San Francisco discovered the U.S. Constitution and its amendments protecting free speech and citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms. Stranger things have happened in the Left Coast city in recent months.
According to WorldNetDaily.com, city buses are now displaying an ad for an upcoming gun rights conference that shows a woman holding a shotgun and looking through a curtain while protecting her home against a violent criminal lurking outside. In August, the city’s Metro Transit Authority banned similar ads displaying movie actors wielding firearms, leaving 2nd Amendment supporters baffled by the city’s sudden change of heart.
“We suspect the MTA is allowing our ads in San Francisco despite their policy because they believed we were prepared to file a lawsuit on First and Second Amendment grounds if, for any reason, the city didn’t take them,” said Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, which is running the conference promoted by the ads. “Knowing we were responsible for the McDonald victory over Chicago and the defeat of their own 2005 gun ban proposition, and probably aware of our litigation in New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois and California, they did not want to lock horns with us again,” Gottlieb told WND.

City officials demanded guns appearing in this ad be removed and replaced with pepper spray and police badges.
Just last month, city officials were singing a different tune with regards to firearms appearing on mass transit advertising venues. When the MTA decided to prohibit firearms from appearing in the hands on actors in promotional ad for “The Other Guys” movie, spokesman Paul Rose said the organization “does have an advertising policy that states ads should not appear to promote the use of firearms or advocate any violent action.”
In wake of the upcoming gun rights conference and a recent Supreme Court ruling stating that Americans’ 2nd Amendment right to bear arms that cannot be violated by state and local governments, Rose said, “We want to take another look at our policy.”
Just goes to prove what can happen when you fight city hall with facts and the Constitution on your side.
Contact the MTA if you’d like to see advertising restrictions on firearms permanently removed from the city’s list of items prohibited from being featured in ads appearing on public transportation venues:
MTA spokesman Paul Rose: 415.701.4582
and/or
Heather McGuire
SVP/General Manager
Titan Worldwide
233 Post Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.773.0355
E-mail:
Heather.McGuire@titanoutdoor.com












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