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this article makes my head hurt

Used-car dealers are never short on goofy sales gimmicks to attract customers.

They’ve been known to give away free cars, offer rides on the back of an Orca, hire verbally challenged sports stars and — in the most desperate of cases — enlist the strange assistance of actor Gary Busey.

Mike Hagan, the owner of Hagan’s Motor Pool Auto Repair and Sales in Rochester, New Hampshire, has gone several steps further with a new campaign involving a notorious weapon.

His pitch: “Buy a car, get an AR.”

The marketing campaign was unveiled in May, but it has attracted new scrutiny in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Omar Mateen carried out his deadly attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando last week using a Sig Sauer MCX rifle. Authorities initially reported that the 29-year-old gunman had killed 49 people using an AR-15.

“Yet while the weapon is different,” writes The Washington Post’s Thomas Gibbons-Neff, “the MCX and the AR-15 share the same design purpose: providing a highly portable, customizable, easy to operate and accurate rifle for the individual who possesses it.”

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