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Pointing gun at self stock photo3/19/2024 ![]() ![]() I'm shy, modest, don't like lots of attention, and uncomfortable with being fat," King told BuzzFeed News. "So I try to produce well-made images that can be taken in a number of different ways."įor images of a shirtless Santa passionately pinching his own nipples, look no further than the work of Tracy King - both the photographer and the model behind the iconic photo series. "I have this belief.that if something is well made, its applications are endless," he said. ![]() Now, Ellgen works full time as a youth pastor but takes stock photos as something of a "money-making hobby." Because photos have to be of a high enough quality to get accepted to iStock, Ellgen takes note whether they get accepted or not and uses that as feedback on his work. The BoJack Horseman-esque photo series has been "very successful," he said. "Then I was like what else can I do? Well, the horse can drink too much and pass out at the table." "One time, my wife wore the horse mask and we put out a plate with flowers on it," he said. He or his wife don it in the photos, and they just try and come up with more and more things "the horse" can do. His brother gave him the horse mask a few years ago, and he got such a kick out of it he started incorporating it into his work. "So I would sketch out ideas as a creative outlet." "When I started doing iStock, I had the most mind-numbing job doing customer service at a call center," the California-based photographer told BuzzFeed News. The bill “dramatically improves current gun safety laws in Massachusetts by closing dangerous loopholes and by making it harder for legally prohibited gun buyers to access firearms without detection by law enforcement,” Stop Handgun Violence founder John Rosenthal said in a statement.What about these 40-plus photos of some guy in a horse mask? They are the work of Rich Ellgen, whose creative work lives on the stock-photo site iStock. The group Stop Handgun Violence praised the Senate. ![]() ![]() “The Senate’s moving theirs pretty darn fast and we keep asking what’s the rush?” “There’s a lot of new stuff, industry stuff, machine gun stuff, definitions that are weird so that’s why the (Senate) bill should have gone to a separate hearing,” he said. Jim Wallace, executive director of the Gun Owners’ Action League, said he’d hoped lawmakers would have held a separate public hearing on the Senate version of the bill because of significant differences with the House version. In October, the Massachusetts House approved its own gun bill aimed at tightening firearm laws, also cracking down on ghost guns. Other elements of the bill would ban carrying firearms in government administrative buildings require courts to compel the surrender of firearms by individuals subject to harassment protection orders who pose an immediate threat ban the marketing of unlawful firearm sales to minors and create a criminal charge for intentionally firing a gun at a dwelling. It would also ensure gun dealers are inspected annually and allow the Massachusetts State Police to conduct the inspections if a local licensing agency can't or won't. The Senate bill would make it illegal to possess devices that convert semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic machine guns, including Glock switches and trigger activators. Department of Justice reported recovering 25,785 ghost guns in domestic seizures. On ghost guns, the bill would toughen oversight for those who own privately made, unserialized firearms that are largely untraceable. “The Senate came together and acted on gun violence, rising above the divisiveness of this critical issue in the name of protecting our residents from gun crime, modernizing our laws, and supporting communities who have been torn apart by unnecessary violence,” Democratic Senate President Karen Spilka said in a statement. Supporters of the legislation say it would help make residents safer and ultimately save lives by reforming the state’s firearm regulations. Supreme Court ruling that citizens have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. The measure is part of an effort by the state to respond to a 2022 U.S. The Senate approved the bill on a 37-3 vote. BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Senate approved a sweeping gun bill Thursday designed to crack down on “ghost guns,” toughen the state’s prohibition on assault weapons and outlaw devices that convert semiautomatic firearms into fully automatic machine guns. ![]()
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