It’s okay to use Santa to promote guns, rules ad watchdog

Australia’s advertising watchdog has cleared Gun World of breaking any of its rules in a billboard ad promoting the gift of a gun, headlined “Santa knows what you really want for Christmas”.

Complaints to the Ad Standards Board labeled the ad as “highly offensive” while others said the ad draws parallels between Christmas and guns which is inappropriate for an audience of children.

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