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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: jaybet on November 02, 2013, 06:46:47 AM
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Anybody see the introduction of Jesse James Firearms Company on press releases?
I've seen this guy on tv shows that I normally don't watch and he seems like a talented fabricator, but he's also an attention seeking douche (couldn't make it work with Sandra Bullock?)
So I guess I'm asking if you might buy custom work from him or is this a ploy to get another tv show?
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No interest!
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He's supposed to come out with a 1911 and an AR15 in January, maybe in time for the SHOT show. I'll be interested to see what he does with them.
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Sandra Bullock is a flaming liberal, I'd bet no one on this site could stand being around her for long either.
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i could handle 7 years exactly... thats the time needed to get life long support in ca lol. honestly having seen the women Jesse has dated, i think he need the skank factor and was not getting it.
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I have an invitation to the private party...should I go???????????
Michael B
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I don't get this one. I don't want a 1911 with tail fins or flames. He was a talented sheet metal guy. Doesn't seem to translate.
JJ started out as a pretty nice guy (at least that was the impression from his earliest shows) prior to the need to feed the star image. I feel sorry for folks like him that make it bigger than they are ready for and then end up losing their way trying to stay on top. Looks like selling your soul from where I sit.
joe
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I have an invitation to the private party...should I go???????????
Michael B
Please go Michael. I do not fear that Jessie will not make a decent firearm. Will it be top of the line or merely run of the mill? I do not know, but more gun makers is a good thing!
Please go, and report back to us what is presented and the future you see.
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Personally i would not go, but thats your call.
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I say go also, you have to give the guy some credit for trying to reinvent himself. Most people give up after the first time. America needs more risk takers.
Mike Mc
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I have an invitation to the private party...should I go???????????
Michael B
Yes, and take LOTS of pictures. :D
On a more serious note, I'm ok with him entering the biz, because if there's even a chance that he'll make firearms ownership as cool and/or mainstream as motorcycle ownership is now (where bank VP's get Harleys for retirement gifts), it will be a good thing for the rest of us.
The trouble is, given his nature and business history, I can't see him lasting long in the world of red tape that is being an FFL. I say two years and he's out. It'll be two years of guns (and women) with some amazing bolt-on accessories, but two years nevertheless.
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I have an invitation to the private party...should I go???????????
Michael B
It can't hurt. Just steer clear of the women. I'd hate to visualize the type that will attend his "Private Parties"! ;D
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Good point that more high profile gun stuff is good, unless he's going to crash and burn, then that gun stuff is not so good.
Sandra Bullock...annoying i suppose, but ten years ago I could have spent, oh...about 45 minutes with her.
MB, you should go if you have the time. Since the profile is high and probably "Hollywood Sleazy" there might be someone there that doesn't normally travel in your circles. Someone who may be helpful to you in your projects.
I'm not sure that another company making fancy ARs or 1911s is going to make a difference or even a splash, but I'm going to take a "wait and see" attitude.
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Skulls flames bikes and tats right up your alley. And now guns what is not to like.
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Go, have some shrimp cocktail, rub elbows with semi-famous people. It'll be a hoot!
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From JJFU.com
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"With JJFU, James hopes to create a brand of firearms that will revolutionize the gun world just as his custom choppers did the motorcycle world."
Really? What's revolutionary about a 100 year old gun design and AR rifles?
He's an old school tin knocker for sure but how can you further revolutionize something that's been around longer than he's been alive?
Have fun Michael but make sure you delouse afterwards.....he was married to a porn star once upon a time...
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I have an invitation to the private party...should I go???????????
Michael B
You have to go, see what he brings to the table! Then report back.
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Go, MB.
JJ has a big ego, but many times (personal life aside) he can back it up....at least as far as being a true craftsman and fabricator. I give him props for wanting to learn blacksmithing the old way, so he went to Israel to learn from an old-school craftsman there.
Could be interesting.
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Go, MB.
JJ has a big ego, but many times (personal life aside) he can back it up....at least as far as being a true craftsman and fabricator. I give him props for wanting to learn blacksmithing the old way, so he went to Israel to learn from an old-school craftsman there.
Could be interesting.
I think that Jessie is like many people we see and do not know. There is the public persona that is huge, there is a personal life that we may or may not approve of, and deep inside there can be a very genuine person that shows from time to time. I think that Jessie has some good qualities that show from time to time,and that he does strive for often. However, if you have heard some of his upbringing you can understand how he got where he is. On the surface, Jessie James is a selfish jerk who has hurt many. Is is a true artist and craftsman. He also begs for the strength of a loving family and personal relationships that he has seldom had. Sadly, our society loves to see the turmoil, and we reward him for that rather than for the good choices he makes.
Off my soap box, or out from behind the pulpit, for now.
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JJ started out as a pretty nice guy (at least that was the impression from his earliest shows) prior to the need to feed the star image. I feel sorry for folks like him that make it bigger than they are ready for and then end up losing their way trying to stay on top. Looks like selling your soul from where I sit.
I seem to remember him stating that he pulled the plug on Monster Garage and the other shows he was on because he didn't like being a celebrity and just wanted to build bikes. To be fair, the paparazzi are the ones who kept him in the limelight, especially when he married a movie star and got busted running around. For the most part, he always seemed to be respectful to all of the regular joes on his shows and treat them how they deserved to be treated. He seemed to be a pretty nice guy, unless you're married to him.
On the plus side, it's refreshing to see that a blue collar gearhead/fabricator can become a celebrity every now and then.
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Speaking of which...
http://www.nranews.com/commentators/video/austin-weiss-profile
Meet the newest NRA News Commentator Austin Weiss, a guy with an affinity for beautifully crafted machines who splits his time between designing custom-built cars and motorcycles and taking a stand for firearms and the Second Amendment.
Looks like the NRA saw this coming...
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I seem to remember him stating that he pulled the plug on Monster Garage and the other shows he was on because he didn't like being a celebrity and just wanted to build bikes. To be fair, the paparazzi are the ones who kept him in the limelight, especially when he married a movie star and got busted running around. For the most part, he always seemed to be respectful to all of the regular joes on his shows and treat them how they deserved to be treated. He seemed to be a pretty nice guy, unless you're married to him.
On the plus side, it's refreshing to see that a blue collar gearhead/fabricator can become a celebrity every now and then.
I've always respected his crafting/fabricating abilities...... there's not much he can't do with metal.
Plus, he's always been a gun guy....which he said was a secondary reason for his move to Texas.
I gained a few notches of respect on the personal side when I saw an interview he did about why he sold WCC and moved to Texas. He said the main reason was to be a better father to his kids, and be a better example than what he was.