Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno<\/em> toted a gold-plated Chanel RPG on red carpets ahead of the movie premiere (and we’re guessing there’s a better chance that you saw the publicity stunts than the film)? It was part of a collection of weapons wrapped in designer fashion logos and labels by Oakland based artist Peter Gronquist. {LA Times<\/a>}<\/p>\n

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Designer fashion guns by Peter Gronquist<\/p><\/div>\n
Though Gronquist may have been trying for a different statement, designer weapons are apparently very much in style for Mexican drug cartels. In a recent raid, Mexican authorities seized 38 highly decorated weapons that include handguns and an AK-47 with inlaid diamonds, silver and gold plating and engraving. {Gawker<\/a>}<\/p>\n
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Diamond encrusted guns seized from a Mexican drug cartel<\/p><\/div>\n
We suppose basic black just doesn’t have the same flair as a weapon that doubles as jewelry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno<\/em> toted a gold-plated Chanel RPG on red carpets ahead of the movie premiere (and we’re guessing there’s a better chance that you saw the publicity stunts than the film)? It was part of a collection of weapons wrapped in designer fashion logos and labels by Oakland based artist Peter Gronquist. <\/p>\n
Though Gronquist may have been trying for a different statement, designer weapons are apparently very much in style for Mexican drug cartels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2990,2991,2988,2989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}