FLORENCE, ITALY – Michelangelo’s David with Rifle advertisement was taken out of Circulation last march. The company said in a statement to ABC News that the ad had been taken out of circulation when a new owner bought ArmaLite.
“I believe that an advertisement utilizing an altered photograph of a masterpiece such as David is in poor taste. We deeply regret that ArmaLite offended anyone by this media campaign, which we ended upon our acquisition of the Company,” Mark Johnson, the chief executive officer of ArmaLite’s parent company, Strategic Armory Corps, LLC, said. ”We will make every effort to be sure that any remnants from the campaign are removed from the public”.
