{"id":217622,"date":"2026-02-07T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=217622"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:23:13","slug":"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-estimated-reading-time yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time: <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">11<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.<br \/>Romans 3:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biblical scholars tell us that, in the eyes of God, there are no gradations of sin. Sin is simply that intrinsic brokenness which separates us from our Creator. Jeffrey Dahmer killed and ate 17 young men and boys. I have occasionally willfully driven over the speed limit. We are both sinners equally in need of redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Larry Flynt\" class=\"wp-image-217623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009-100x150.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_2009.jpeg 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is porn lord Larry Flynt. His entire life, though profoundly successful financially, was characterized by pervasive tragedy. (photo\/Wikipedia photo by Glenn Francis.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We all come from the factory broken. Some of us spend a lifetime fighting that. Others choose simply to wallow in it. Larry Flynt transformed that ubiquitous sin nature into a profoundly lucrative business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><h2>Table of contents<\/h2><ul><li><a href=\"#h-the-guy\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" data-level=\"2\">The Guy<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-businessman-finds-his-stride\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" data-level=\"2\">The Businessman Finds His Stride<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-smut-king\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" data-level=\"2\">The Smut King<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-the-shooter\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" data-level=\"2\">The Shooter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-trouble-in-paradise\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" data-level=\"2\">Trouble in Paradise<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-it-gets-even-weirder\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" data-level=\"2\">It Gets Even Weirder\u2026<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-ruminations\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" data-level=\"2\">Ruminations<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-guy\">The Guy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The oldest of three siblings, Larry Claxton Flynt Jr, was born in Lakeville, Kentucky, in November of 1942. Flynt\u2019s dad, Larry Claxton Sr, was a poor sharecropper who served in the US Army in Europe during WW2. As a result, young Larry was raised solely by his mom and maternal grandmother for the first three years of his life. Flynt\u2019s younger sister succumbed to leukemia in 1951. This ultimately precipitated his parents&#8217; divorce. Flynt\u2019s mom opened a bar in Dayton, OH, to keep her family fed. Flynt eventually moved in with his dad because he hated his mom\u2019s new boyfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Flynt ran away from home at age 15 and joined the Army using a fake birth certificate. He served honorably and returned home when his enlistment was up. He then worked in a GM plant until he was laid off because of some union troubles. Flynt bootlegged liquor for a while and eventually enlisted in the US Navy. He served as a radar operator on board the USS Enterprise and was on duty during the recovery of John Glenn\u2019s Mercury space capsule. Flynt left the military for good in 1964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-businessman-finds-his-stride\">The Businessman Finds His Stride<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The following year, Flynt took his savings from the military, some $1,800 in cash, and bought his mom\u2019s bar. This would be around $17,000 in today\u2019s money. The club was called the Keewee. Flynt revamped the place and was soon pulling in $1000 per week (about $9,300 today). He used the proceeds to purchase two more bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hustler-hell-1024x693.jpeg\" alt=\"Hustler Club in New York City\" class=\"wp-image-217631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hustler-hell-1024x693.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hustler-hell-400x271.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hustler-hell-150x102.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hustler-hell-768x520.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Hustler-hell.jpeg 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is the Hustler Club in New York City. (photo\/Wikipedia photo by Roger Rowlett.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Running a dive like that is undeniably grueling. Flynt often worked 20 hours a day, chugging amphetamines to keep himself going. However, the man had ambition. He used the profits from these three establishments to open a fourth place. This bar he called the Hustler Club. The Hustler Club was the first establishment in the area to feature nude hostesses. Larry Flynt\u2019s strip club addressed an untapped market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short order, Flynt opened Hustler Clubs in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo. Each place pulled in nearly half a million dollars per year. Now that he had some proper folding money, Flynt bought a tiny newspaper in Dayton called Bachelor\u2019s Beat. This was Flynt\u2019s first taste of publishing. He had found his one true calling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-smut-king\">The Smut King<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1972, Flynt published the first issue of the Hustler Newsletter. This two-page, black-and-white souped-up leaflet orbited around his Hustler Clubs. The Hustler Newsletter was so popular that he expanded it to 16 pages and then later to 32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"842\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.24.32-842x1024.jpg\" alt=\"a man and a lady. Larry Flynt\" class=\"wp-image-217632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.24.32-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.24.32-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.24.32-123x150.jpg 123w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.24.32-768x933.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.24.32.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 842px) 100vw, 842px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Surreptitiously-obtained nude photos of a dead President&#8217;s widow sold a million copies of Hustler in mere days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1973, the United States entered an oil-driven recession, and business at his brick and mortar clubs cratered. In an effort to save his burgeoning empire, Flynt transformed the Hustler Newsletter into Hustler Magazine, a sexually graphic nationwide smut mag. He covered the start-up expenses by withholding payment of sales taxes on his Hustler Clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 1974 saw the inaugural issue of Hustler. Every issue challenged conventional norms and threatened to shut him down. He was being sued constantly. Flynt bought nude photos of former First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis taken by paparazzi while she was vacationing for $18,000 ($98,000 today). These illicit images went into the August 1975 issue, which sold out its million-copy print run in days. By now, Larry Flynt was rolling in money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-shooter\">The Shooter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised in Alabama, James Clayton Vaughn was a product of his environment. Vaughn\u2019s dad abandoned his family when the child was eight. Whenever he came by for a visit, the elder Vaughn invariably ended up beating James and his three siblings. When he came of age, James joined both the National Socialist White People\u2019s Party (apparently a real thing) and the KKK. He formally changed his name to Joseph Paul Franklin in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler\u2019s Minister of Propaganda, and Benjamin Franklin. Vaughn read Adolf Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf and became convinced that there was a race war coming in America. James Vaughn really hated black people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Joseph_Paul_Franklin.jpg\" alt=\"an old man\" class=\"wp-image-217624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Joseph_Paul_Franklin.jpg 289w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Joseph_Paul_Franklin-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Joseph_Paul_Franklin-135x150.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This model citizen is either Joseph Paul Franklin or James Clayton Vaughn Jr, depending on when you ask. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When he acquired the means, Vaughn decided he would do his part to get that race war started. He traveled widely, killing as the opportunity allowed. Vaughn specifically targeted Jews and interracial couples. There\u2019s not a great deal of money to be made in racially driven murders, so he kept himself fed and clothed by robbing banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At one point, Vaughn bought himself a copy of Hustler. It wasn\u2019t the bondage, S&amp;M, or depictions of graphic sexual violence that set him off. Vaughn got all energized because Flynt published pictures of a black man having sex with a white woman. He later had this to say, \u201cI saw that interracial couple he had, photographed there, having sex. It just made me sick. I think whites marry with whites, blacks with blacks, Indians with Indians. Orientals with orientals. I threw the magazine down and thought, I&#8217;m gonna kill that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-trouble-in-paradise\">Trouble in Paradise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Larry Flynt was veritably living in court and loving every minute of it. On 6 March 1978, Flynt was in a Gwinnett County, Georgia, courtroom answering an obscenity charge. He and his lawyer, a local attorney named Gene Reeves, had taken a break for lunch and were heading out of the courthouse in search of a salad. As the two men chatted, James Vaughn walked up with a semiautomatic Ruger Model 44 Deerstalker rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruger_Deerstalker44-1024x290.jpeg\" alt=\"Ruger Deerstalker .44 magnum semiautomatic rifle\" class=\"wp-image-217627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruger_Deerstalker44-1024x290.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruger_Deerstalker44-400x113.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruger_Deerstalker44-150x43.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruger_Deerstalker44-768x218.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruger_Deerstalker44-1536x435.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruger_Deerstalker44.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is the Ruger Deerstalker .44 magnum semiautomatic rifle. It is a devastating close-range carbine. (Photo\/Wikipedia photo by Bo Basil.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I killed my first deer with one of those guns. Think of it like an M1 carbine on steroids. The rifle is gas-operated and feeds from a four-round tubular magazine. Chambered in .44 magnum, the Deerstalker hits like a freight train downrange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaughn fired two rounds. Both of them struck Larry Flynt. One bullet hit Flynt in the gut and severed his spine. The other passed through Flynt with little consequence and then struck Reeves. That bullet traumatically removed the lawyer\u2019s gallbladder before spending itself in his pancreas. Reeves recovered fully. Flynt did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone at the crime scene recognized Larry Flynt. Only one man, a local Christian pastor named Fred Musser, came to his aid. Musser did his best to comfort the grievously injured Flynt, praying over him at the scene as they awaited the ambulance and Law Enforcement. He later reported that Flynt\u2019s entrails were leaking out of his abdominal wound around his fingers, one of which was adorned with an enormous diamond ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once Flynt boarded the ambulance, he and Musser never spoke again. Several years later, Flynt sent Musser a check for $1,000 out of the blue. Pastor Musser deposited the money into his church\u2019s general fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Flynt survived the shooting, but he was rendered paraplegic. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Vaughn simply climbed into his car and drove away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-12.47.47-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"mugshotof a man\" class=\"wp-image-217625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-12.47.47-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-12.47.47-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-12.47.47-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-12.47.47-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-12.47.47.jpg 1112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Vaughn was executed as a serial killer in 2013. LE mug shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>James Vaughn was arrested for another unrelated murder in 1980. He was eventually convicted of eight killings and suspected of a further twenty-two. He admitted to the Flynt shooting while in prison. Vaughn was executed by lethal injection on 20 November 2013. In the lead-up to the event, Larry Flynt attempted to intervene on his behalf. He wrote, \u201cA government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the aftermath of the shooting, Larry Flynt became fairly convinced that he had been the subject of a CIA hit. Being roundly despised by every little old lady in the United States of America is apparently enough to make a guy paranoid. He alleged that James Vaughn had been subjected to MKULTRA-style mind control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-it-gets-even-weirder\">It Gets Even Weirder\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A year before the shooting, Flynt was flying on his Gulfstream jet with evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton. Stapleton was the sister of President Jimmy Carter. I have no idea what brought these two extraordinary personalities together on that airplane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton_press_conference_N.Y-793x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"lady getting interviewed \" class=\"wp-image-217633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton_press_conference_N.Y-793x1024.jpeg 793w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton_press_conference_N.Y-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton_press_conference_N.Y-116x150.jpeg 116w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton_press_conference_N.Y-768x992.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton_press_conference_N.Y-1189x1536.jpeg 1189w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ruth_Carter_Stapleton_press_conference_N.Y-1586x2048.jpeg 1586w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">By all accounts, Jimmy Carter&#8217;s sister Ruth was a really nice lady. She, two of her siblings, and her dad all died of pancreatic cancer. (photo\/Public domain.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During a particularly moving theological discussion, Flynt claimed to have had a vision from God that led him to be born again as an evangelical Christian. However, this vision was not adequate to keep him from publishing Hustler Magazine. He declared soon thereafter his intent to \u201chustle for God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subsequent shooting caused Flynt to rethink his convictions. The man ultimately died an atheist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one might imagine, being the magnate of one of the world\u2019s most lucrative porn empires made Larry Flynt fairly difficult to live with. He was married five times and fathered at least five children. Three marriages ended in divorce. His fourth wife, Althea Leasure, died in 1987 of an AIDS-related disease. In 1998, Flynt married his nurse, Elizabeth Berrios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paraplegia brings with it a great many significant health challenges. Chronic urinary tract infections, pressure ulcers, and coronary disease are part and parcel. Despite these trials, Flynt lived for another 43 years, dying in 2012 at the age of 78 of heart failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/david-bellavia\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SSG David Bellavia: It\u2019s All Fun and Games Until Some Unwashed Lunatic Bites You in the Balls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ruminations\">Ruminations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Flynt was an objectively horrible person. His magazine included images of naked women being gang raped and, in one case, being fed into a meat grinder. One popular Larry Flynt title, Barely Legal, specializes in young women who have only just turned 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_Wheelchair.jpeg\" alt=\"Larry Flynt in a wheelchair\" class=\"wp-image-217630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_Wheelchair.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_Wheelchair-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Larry_Flynt_Wheelchair-100x150.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Larry Flynt had everything, including this gold-plated wheelchair, yet it ultimately cost him his soul. (photo\/Wikipedia photo by Glenn Francis.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One regular feature in Hustler was a cartoon drawn by Dwaine Tinsley called \u201cChester the Molester.\u201d This comic ran for 13 years and catalogued the serial adventures of an insatiable pedophile named Chester. Tinsley once candidly admitted to a coworker, &#8220;You can&#8217;t write about this stuff all the time if you don&#8217;t experience it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1990, Tinsley was convicted of molesting his daughter for five years. Flynt\u2019s daughter, Tonya Flynt-Vega, accused the porn lord of molesting her as a child as well. Flynt denied the allegations, but acknowledged that he had not been a terribly good parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.45.51-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"a passpopassport and some banned weapons. Larry Flynt\" class=\"wp-image-217640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.45.51-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.45.51-400x257.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.45.51-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.45.51-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.45.51-1536x988.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-30-at-14.45.51.jpg 1614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mitch WerBell III designed the iconic two-stage sound suppressor for the MAC-10 submachine gun. He was also supposedly asked to assassinate the US Supreme Court with an exploding wheelchair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1983, Flynt purportedly approached flamboyant former spy-turned-mercenary Mitch WerBell III about rigging his wheelchair with plastic explosives. WerBell was a major player in the Military Armament Corporation. He designed the classic two-stage MAC suppressor used with the M10 Ingram submachine gun. Flynt intended to gain an audience with the US Supreme Court and then kill them all with his improvised exploding medical equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Flynt had everything, yet he was so tragically, grindingly miserable. His entire life was characterized by hate, rage, abandonment, and monetized lust. At the apogee of his success, Flynt was worth about half a billion dollars. Now, he\u2019s dead. His last wife, the nurse Elizabeth Berrios, runs the thriving Flynt porn empire today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?<br \/>Mark 8:36<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"will-the-attempted-assassination-of-larry-flynt\" title=\"The Attempted Assassination of Larry Flynt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1972, Flynt published the first issue of the Hustler Newsletter. This two-page, black-and-white souped-up leaflet orbited around his Hustler Clubs. 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