This Frum Guy Really Wants You to own Your Own Gun

October 10, 2017

Jonathan Burstyn, a Jewish gun instructor, at an NRA convention, August 2017. (Courtesy of Burstyn) CHICAGO ( JTA ) — Three days after a gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas, a post in a Facebook group for Chicago Jews displayed a blurry photo of survivors fleeing the bullets. Next to it was a flier advertising ChiDefense Firearm Training with a Hebrew phrase underneath denoting that the company is closed for Shabbat. The post got a few “likes” — and plenty of hate. One commenter called it “vile and distasteful.” Another wrote sarcastically that it displayed “impeccable logic.” Another called for it to be taken down. It appears to have since been deleted. But on the day the post appeared, the man behind the ad stood by it. Jonathan Burstyn, an Orthodox gun safety instructor, apologized for

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