So.. what is the DEAL with the logo?
I have been involved in Open Carry and gun rights for many years. I love guns.. and I love coffee. I had seen many patches and logos showing guns and coffee logo's like this below:
I have been involved in Open Carry and gun rights for many years. I love guns.. and I love coffee. I had seen many patches and logos showing guns and coffee logo's like this below:
Since I LOVED guns and coffee.. I too modified the Guns and Coffee logo based on the "I ♥ NY" theme. I chose a new font, made the heart red.. and I too formed a logo to support gun owners that LOVED their guns and coffee as much as I did. I even made a few shirts via some online shirt places like Zazzle and the like.. Not really to sell to make money.. but to be available for my friends and I.
That is when I met Dave Anderson. Dave and I were Facebook friends and friends on Open Carry.org Dave said he also had an I heart guns and coffee logo but he chose not to use the red heart as it was one extra ink color to print. Dave sent me a care package with stickers and poker chips and stuff that I thanked him for and handed out. I even offered him a business opportunity that he declined. He decided to invest in something else. That's ok. I think we talked about challenge coins once because he knew I made them as well. I told him that I was going to make a coin and he said he is going to make one too.. and BETTER than mine. Whatever. I make quality coins for a fair price and made them. Once Dave saw this.. he started sending me nasty messages. I blocked him and unfriended him. He thinks he registered the SATIRE/PARODY of an existing company logo as his BRAND. There are hundreds of people that make a similar logo. I told him I don't plan to make shirts, hats, mugs, towels, poker chips, etc.. (BUT I COULD if I chose to!!) Just coins. Dave's greed is overwhelming. He has his friends email me since he can't. I "COULD" make shirts and mugs and stuff JUST LIKE HIM if I chose too. That stuff is my forte. I choose not too.
So.. the bottom line is this... if you like my coin (with the red heart) and "Guns Save Lives" on the other side, and want to buy it, you will help fund gun rights actions (mostly in Virginia). If you want his stuff go to his site. Either way, his claim that I stole HIS logo is unfounded. Now you know.
That is when I met Dave Anderson. Dave and I were Facebook friends and friends on Open Carry.org Dave said he also had an I heart guns and coffee logo but he chose not to use the red heart as it was one extra ink color to print. Dave sent me a care package with stickers and poker chips and stuff that I thanked him for and handed out. I even offered him a business opportunity that he declined. He decided to invest in something else. That's ok. I think we talked about challenge coins once because he knew I made them as well. I told him that I was going to make a coin and he said he is going to make one too.. and BETTER than mine. Whatever. I make quality coins for a fair price and made them. Once Dave saw this.. he started sending me nasty messages. I blocked him and unfriended him. He thinks he registered the SATIRE/PARODY of an existing company logo as his BRAND. There are hundreds of people that make a similar logo. I told him I don't plan to make shirts, hats, mugs, towels, poker chips, etc.. (BUT I COULD if I chose to!!) Just coins. Dave's greed is overwhelming. He has his friends email me since he can't. I "COULD" make shirts and mugs and stuff JUST LIKE HIM if I chose too. That stuff is my forte. I choose not too.
So.. the bottom line is this... if you like my coin (with the red heart) and "Guns Save Lives" on the other side, and want to buy it, you will help fund gun rights actions (mostly in Virginia). If you want his stuff go to his site. Either way, his claim that I stole HIS logo is unfounded. Now you know.