Samantha Bee highlighted a glaring, surreal NRA double standard on Full Frontal Monday, stockpiling a small weapons arsenal while trudging through red tape as she tried to nab her own Eddie Eagle costume, the NRA's gun safety mascot.
As the host explained, the NRA has set up myriad hurdles in front of potential Eddie Eagle buyers and has even banned the resale of costumes on secondary markets. Bee, however, was able to send an employee to a parking lot in Atlanta to buy a used shotgun out of a man's trunk.
As the host explained, the NRA has set up myriad hurdles in front of potential Eddie Eagle buyers and has even banned the resale of costumes on secondary markets. Bee, however, was able to send an employee to a parking lot in Atlanta to buy a used shotgun out of a man's trunk.
- 4/12/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Full Frontal is back! Full Frontal is back! The newly renewed show took two weeks off (host Samantha Bee would later explain it was to figure out what a superdelegate is) but now it's back with a new episode for us to enjoy. In the night's main segment, Bee tried to procure the costume for the National Rifle Association's gun safety mascot Eddie Eagle. "There's something about that costume," Bee explains. "So mockable. So asinine. I had to have one." But there is no Second Amendment right to bear an Eddie Eagle costume, so Bee's attempts to get one were thwarted. She did manage, however, to buy several guns from gun shows, gun stores, and the trunks of people's cars. There is no national registry for gun owners -- thanks in part to the NRA's efforts -- but there is a national registry for NRA mascot Eddie Eagle costumes.
- 4/12/2016
- by Sara Morrison
- Hitfix
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