The Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDB) Needs our Help
” If you don’t yet know about the Internet Movie Firearms Database, you’re missing out. IMFDB.orgis a searchable repository of firearms facts that centers on the who, what, when, where and why of movies, television and video games. Based on the film industry’s own Internet library (the Internet Movie Database – IMDB), IMFDB is one of those sites that firearm enthusiasts get lost in. You can follow links deeper and deeper in, simultaneously building your knowledge of guns and picking up some good trivia.
The site was founded by Christopher Serrano back in 2007. Serrano, trying to settle a bet about the guns used in The Matrix, came up empty and, in the process, identified a need. IMFDB.org was born. Since then, the site has been steadily gathering information about the guns used in movies.
The only way IMFDB makes money is by selling advertising space on the site. This is common enough. But some advertisers who saw IMFDB as part of Hollywood are not so eager to be associated with the political debate surrounding firearms. IMFDB is in no way encouraging the fictitious, gratuitous and often reckless use of guns so common to Hollywood. They’re simply keeping track of it. But this is the way the winds are blowing.
And so it is with crowdfunding. Kickstarter gets squeamish about guns. So IMFDB turned to Rockethub.
IMFDB has set up various funding levels, and have some great incentives associated with each. $5 will get you a sticker. $15 will get you a patch. $30 will get you a t shirt. And there are Magpul iPhone cases, slings from Specter Gear. $40 will buy a $50 gift card for Beretta USA.
As of today, June 7, only 77 people have kicked in some funding. The site has more than 1.5 million visitors each month and only 77 have ponied up. They’ve raised $3,623 of their $20,000 goal. And the fundraiser only has 13 days left.”
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