NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Suggests Jews Are “Behind” Gun Safety Laws

National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent shared a graphic suggesting that Jews are “really behind” gun-safety laws. The image was previously posted on Stormfront, the most prominent American white supremacist website.

In a February 8 post on his Facebook page, Nugent shared an image headlined, “So who is really behind gun control?” with Israeli flags next to faces of 12 Jewish American politicians and gun violence prevention advocates. Some of the pictures feature descriptions such as “Jew York city mayor Mikey Bloomberg.” Nugent captioned the image, “Know these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good over evil, they would deny us the basic human right to self defense & to KEEP & BEAR ARMS while many of them have tax paid hired ARMED security! Know them well. Tell every1 you know how evil they are. Let us raise maximum hell to shut them down”:

Know these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good over evil, they would deny us the basic human right to self defense ...

Posted by Ted Nugent on Monday, February 8, 2016

A similar image was used by a commenter on the white supremacist website Stormfront in 2014:

Nugent has claimed those shot in mass shootings are “losers amongst us ... [who] fall for the big lie of political correctness, and get cut down by murderous maniacs like blind sheep to slaughter.”