#Neil Mossberg

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Stills. Do you need ammo for your gun?

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Oh uh yeah! Dunno what sorta ammo the mossberg uses...I mean don't get me wrong it's a good and practical gun! Especially situations like these but I don't use guns like these often...

He shrugged slightly

I like me a simple headgun. But someone stole my lucky pistol. It's fine...I used that pistol on neil anyways...

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NYC Web Fest Announces 2017 Jury

The 4th Annual NYC Web Fest (NYCWF) has announced its Jury members today – a diverse group of entertainers and producers from film, television, stage and the digital space. They’ve also revealed a new programming department, with Program Director Austen Jaye and Programming Consultant Liz Spaulding, a former marketing director for Tribeca Film. The festival will take place November 9th-11th in Manhattan, location to be determined.

NYCWF is open for submissions following its biggest edition yet, and have added a pilot competition this year, for first episodes of new web series’. More creators than ever before attended in 2016, guests came in from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and all across the United States. Backstage Magazine named them ‘One of Six Great New Media Festivals,’ and new streaming service Seeka TV signed 12 shows directly from the festival.

“The NYC Web Fest was a great venue for someone like me to interact with the best filmmakers in the web series world.” Said George Reese, Seeka’s Vice-President of Programming.

Other 2016 highlights included the premiere of India’s first same-sex series The Other Love Story and the introduction of the Audience Choice Award. That was won by Haunted or Hoax, starring Natasha Negovanlis. Multi-nominee Situationships has since been signed signed a distribution deal with media company Blavity.

NYCWF also hosted the world premiere of Best Drama winner Trap Plane from Houston Texas.  “When Trap Plane became an official selection for 2016 NYC Web Fest, I was excited to premiere in the Big Apple. When our name was called for Best Drama it was incredible!  After being at the festival, and feeling the energy I really wanted the award.”  Said writer/director Juan C Vazquez.

Another new member of the team is Sarah Grieco, Director of Sales and Marketing, who has managed multiple events in NYC for the past 5 years. With NYCWF growing so quickly, the goal is to integrate more brands into the event.  

Submissions are open until August 14th - already entries have increased by 65% from this time last year. For more information see www.nycwebfest.com More information on this year's jurors can also be found below.

Natasha S. Alford is a journalist, host, producer and writer.  Her work covers a wide range of issues relating to politics, race, gender, education, as well as entertainment and pop culture.  Natasha is Deputy Editor of theGrio.com and hosts the original web series True Story with Natasha Alford.  She has also been a contributor to Salon.com, Sirius XM’s Sway In the Morning, WDKX and WBEZ radio.  She is a winner of the CBS Meredith-Cronkite Fellowship and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), as well as the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Natasha was recently awarded the 2017 Rising Leader Award at the 20th Annual Harvard Women’s Leadership Awards.  She resides in New York City.

Ashley C. Ford lives in Brooklyn NY by way of Indiana. She is (mostly) a writer, editor, and public speaker. She is currently writing a memoir, and working as a senior features writer at Refinery29.  Ford has written or guest-edited for The Guardian, ELLE, BuzzFeed, Slate, Teen Vogue, I-D, Lenny Letter, and various other web and print publications. She's spoken at SXSW, Earlham College, Hippocamp Nonfiction Writing Conference, and various other events and universities. She also taught writing at The New School and Catapult.Co.  Ford previously worked as a development executive for Matter Studios, where she focused on web series and documentaries, and was also the host of the first season of Audible.Com's interview series, Authorized. She has been named among Forbes Magazine's 2017 30 Under 30 in Media, and Brooklyn Magazine's 2016 Brooklyn 100.

Austen Jaye is a native Californian, Austen grew up in Los Angeles and attended Mira Costa High School. While studying sign language at El Camino College, he took an acting class and immediately realized his true passion for the arts. Studying at the Stellar Adler Theatre and later, The Beverly Hills Playhouse, Austen refocused his drive of becoming a professional actor. Theatre credits include the Solo Show BELAFONTE UNAUTHORIZED: A SHARED HUMANITY, the West Coast premier of THE GOOD NEGRO and BLACK WOMEN STATE OF THE UNION. Television credits include The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS), Back in the Game(ABC), Angie Tribeca (TBS), Roomie Lover Friends (BET) and Hello Cupid (BET).

Neil Mossberg initially started his career in the fashion world as an assistant buyer with The Doneger Group.  A leading analyst of global trends and merchandising strategies for the retail and fashion industry, he became a men’s buyer for the Urban Outfitters Group. Neil left Urban Outfitters to become Creative Director of the national retailer County Seat, where he successfully managed all brand acquisition, product planning and marketing for County Seat’s 600 stores nationwide generating sales in excess of $500 million.  Neil has worked with NBC and the Bravo Network on products for reality TV shows, partnered with Mead Johnson Bristol Myers and Served as fashion editor for Urban Latino magazine.  Today Neil is a partner in a portfolio of brands and companies such as World Marketing, FRANK151, Steve Harvey Collection, colossal brands  and more .  Neil also sits on the board of advisory board exClone.

Drew Phillips is a transgender genre filmmaker and graphic designer from Indiana whose films Beautiful and Digital Syntax have garnered international acclaim. She currently works in the graphics department at REVRY, the only global LGBTQ+ streaming platform.

Sherrod Small started performing stand up at New York’s Comic Strip Live in 1998.  Six months later, he was performing at the Comedy Cellar as well.  Sherrod was a regular on VH1's The Best Week Ever and serves as a guest, occasional ombudsman, and stand-in host of Fox News's late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.  He has appeared onTough Crowd, Premium Blend, and The Chris Rock Show.  He can also be seen with John Mayer on the parody cover of Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" and on the G4's International Sexy Ladies.

From 2012 to 2014, Sherrod was an infrequent guest on the Opie and Anthony radio show and took a more regular role on its successor, Opie with Jim Norton.  For the past 5 years he’s hosted the RaceWars Podcast with Kurt Metzger.  Guests have included Tracy Morgan, Colin Quinn, Ann Coulter, Tony Rock, and more.  In 2016, he won the Special Guest Star award at NYC Web Fest for his work on the series Long Island Divas which spoofs the Real Housewives franchise.

Liz Spaulding is a seasoned marketing & communications executive with over 10 years in the media & entertainment industry. She is currently working on a Marketing contract for Citibank’s Global Consumer Bank division on Customer Experience and Digital Engagement. Prior to Citibank, Liz was named the first ever New York Director for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, and previously managed the $4M+ annual incentive: The “Made in NY” Marketing credit while at the NYC Mayor’s Office. Liz also worked in the private sector of the entertainment industry, as Marketing Coordinator for Tribeca Film, the newly launched distribution arm of the Tribeca Film Festival. She managed the promotional assets, marketing strategy and release windows for over 15 feature films per year, marketing independent titles to a wide audience in a new distribution model.

Sasha Stone has been writing about film and the entertainment industry for going on twenty years. She began her website Oscarwatch.com in 1999, was sued by the Academy and was forced to change the name to AwardsDaily.com. She graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and briefly attended Columbia Graduate Film School. Although she mostly covers the Oscar race, her writing extends to diversity in the industry and awards race, and freelances for Women’s Media Center. She has a daughter in college, a dog and two cats and lives in Burbank, California.

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Apple Pie Guns: 7 All-American Firearms that Scream Freedom

America’s Freedom is rooted in firearms history and a number of domestic designs today carry on the “Spirit of 76.” (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

With Independence Day upon us, there is no better time to look at some of the most classic American firearms of all time, all of which are still in production.

These guns, the functional steel equivalent of Neil Armstrong, Mount Rushmore or the Liberty Bell, have in some cases been around for well over a century and withstood the test of time, marking a place in firearms history that is uniquely red, white, and blue.

Colt 1911

This early Colt-made M1911 came off the lines in 1913 and was carried during the 1916 Punitive Expedition against Mexican rebel leader Pancho Villa. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

Springing from the mind of no less a firearms genius than John Moses Browning, his M1911 Government Issue in .45ACP was the end-result of a multi-year effort to give the U.S. Army the best handgun the country could make. Now an icon, the Colt long slide had been copied, emulated, duplicated and minted in numbers that reach into the millions and most American handgun companies produce their own version of it — as well as a number overseas from the Philippines to Germany.

Smith & Wesson N Frame

This S&W Model 28 Highway Patrolman N-frame revolver comes from an era where the standard state trooper gun was a large frame .357 and polymer framed pistols were still on the stuff of Sci-Fi. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

While Big Blue started cranking out wheel guns recognizable today as their medium-sized K-frames in the form of their Hand Ejector Model of 1899, Smith & Wesson went on to craft its beefier large-frame brother just a few years later with the Triple Lock of 1908. This big .44 Special gave birth to the M1917, a .45ACP revolver used by the hundreds of thousands in World War I and later the Models 27, 28 and 29 which equipped generations of lawmen in .357 and .44 Magnum respectively, to include Inspector ‘Dirty Harry” Callahan. Renowned for their performance, pro-shooter Jerry Miculek used an N-frame to set a world record for 12 rounds on target in 2.99 seconds– to include a reload. Today’s N-frames are exemplified by the S&W Model 627.

AR-15

Colt has been in the AR biz since 1959 and continues to make both “throwback” and improved versions of this 5.56/.223 caliber rifle (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

Often called “America’s rifle,” the AR-15 originated with Eugene Stoner at ArmaLite in 1956 and is largely regarded as one of the first commercially available modern sporting rifles. Colt acquired the patents in 1959 and the gun has gone on to carve out a spot in gun cabinets, racks, and safes from coast to coast. Since the 1970s, other manufacturers have jumped on the AR bandwagon and today it is tough to find an American gun maker that is not producing an AR-15 variant. This ranges from big-name companies such as Remington and Ruger to more niche makers like Daniel Defense and Windham Weaponry who count ARs as their staple product.

Mossberg 500 Series

This Mossberg 590M, with a detachable box magazine, is just a continuation of the vaunted 500 series that the company has had in continuous production since Eisenhower was in office. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)

O.F. Mossberg & Sons are currently celebrating their 100th year in American firearm making and, odds are, if you ask someone to name a Mossberg they are going to come back with a Model 500 shotgun of some sort– and likely have either used one in the past at some point. A design that started in the 1960s, the Model 500 pump action became wildly popular not only among sportsmen headed to the field but also with law enforcement, military and for use in home security. Over the years, the line has expanded to cover various models — including the 505, 510, 535, and 590 — as well as new detachable box magazine-fed shotguns and Shockwave NFA-complaint “firearms.”

Winchester Model 70

This Certified used Winchester 70 XTR Sporter in 7mm Rem Mag. currently in the Guns.com Vault includes a Leupold VX-2 3-9×40 adjustable objective scope.

Debuting in 1936 as “The Rifleman’s Rifle,” Winchester’s Model 70 was based on firearms designer Thomas Crosley Johnson’s previous Prohibition-era Model 54 with a few tweaks. Often seen as one of Winchester’s most memorable centerfire bolt-action, the Model 70 has been manufactured in over 40 factory standard chamberings from the diminutive .22 Hornet varmint cartridge to the 500-grain .470 Capstick magnum safari pill. The accuracy and reliability of the Model 70 were so trusted it was even used by Marine snipers in the early days of Vietnam. Today, Rifleman’s Rifle is still clocking in, with new models available in a wide range of models with classic Monte Carlo walnut stocks or more modern synthetics.

Marlin 336

This Marlin 336 Big Loop variant is one of more than a dozen variants of this popular hunting rifle we currently have in the Guns.com Vault with prices starting at the $350 range.

One of the most widely available modern “cowboy guns,” Marlin’s Model 336 first reached the market in the 1940s and has never disappeared. With its solid top and side-ejection format, the handy .30-30 brush gun has been a go-to for entire generations of deer hunters. Manufactured today in several traditional and new Dark models, the latter of which can accept muzzle devices and suppressors right out of the box, odds are the last hunter to carry a 336 into the woods won’t be born for decades.

Ruger Mk I

This old school Mark I currently available in the Guns.com Vault represents the first generation of Ruger firearms and today’s Mark IV carries its lineage.

Launching a firearms empire, Bill Ruger’s Standard Mark I, a simple .22LR blowback action pistol he originally designed in his garage, dates to the days where gas was 17 cents a gallon and was born the same year as Bruce Springsteen and John Belushi. How can a rimfire pistol be more illustrious? The same hallmarks that made the Mark I wildly popular continues to keep original guns as highly sought-after collectibles while its newer Mark II, III, and IV descendants, which owe much of their design to their 1940s grandpa, are keeping the plinking flame alive for a new generation.

For more, check out these and similar modern classics in the Guns.com Vault and collection of Certified Used Guns.

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Day 23 of 365 Days to try something new.

Why not? Or maybe a new way of doing something routine. Staying comfortable with a little change. The same routine but a little bit different.  Or just go for it and jump right in trying something we didn’t know we could do until we tried it.

Let’s be careful but not fearful. Fear can be a crutch, an obstacle, that hold us back and we so don’t have time for that.

Let’s move forward instead of just lateral or backward! Let’s learn and grow! We’ve got this! We do!

Today’s Wednesday so it’s quotes day, words of inspiration day, words to live by day! Here we go!

Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love.  Stacy London

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. Neil Gaiman

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities – to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work. Klaus Schwab

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I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new. Jaquelin T. Robertson

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things? John Sulston

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Louis E. Boone

We’re scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. Joel Salatin

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself. Walt Mossberg

What can we do a little bit different today?

Meet me back here tomorrow (keep that the same okay?)

Namaste&TrySomethingNew

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