Swarmed by Government Drones? This Ad Suggests Blasting Them With a Silenced Shotgun

Meet Johnny Dronehunter, privacy enforcer

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Sometimes when you watch an ad, you can't quite believe it's real. Then you learn about the backstory, and you watch it again, and you still can't wrap your head around it.

Take Johnny Dronehunter, the hero in a real new commercial for a real new shotgun silencer, from a real company called SilencerCo.

If you are, like Johnny, a man who drives through the desert in aviators and a beat-up '80s-era Cadillac, then finds himself in combat with a fleet of flying surveillance robots, then this is the shotgun silencer for you.

If your response to growing privacy concerns around the increasing use of drones by domestic law enforcement doesn't include overtones of a paranoid dystopian fantasy in which people run around shooting drones out of the sky, then it's still pretty amusing to watch the clever melodrama of a well-produced drone-hunting video.

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