Ted Nugent attends the NAMM Show, an annual trade show for music products, in 2010. The rock star turned conservative activist has made headlines recently for his comments about President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Ted Nugent attends the NAMM Show, an annual trade show for music products, in 2010. The rock star turned conservative activist has made headlines recently for his comments about President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Nugent, far right, is seen with The Amboy Dukes circa 1970. Nugent began recruiting members for the band after his high school graduation in 1967.
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Nugent, far right, is seen with The Amboy Dukes circa 1970. Nugent began recruiting members for the band after his high school graduation in 1967.
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Nugent, seen here circa 1970, left The Amboy Dukes to start a solo career in 1975. Three of his major hit singles in the 1970s were "Stranglehold," "Hey Baby" and "Cat Scratch Fever." Hailing from the Detroit area, he proclaimed himself the "Motor City Madman."
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Nugent, seen here circa 1970, left The Amboy Dukes to start a solo career in 1975. Three of his major hit singles in the 1970s were "Stranglehold," "Hey Baby" and "Cat Scratch Fever." Hailing from the Detroit area, he proclaimed himself the "Motor City Madman."
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Nugent, left, plays the guitar at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta in 1975.
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Nugent, left, plays the guitar at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta in 1975.
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Nugent appears in a television episode of "Miami Vice" in 1989.
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Nugent appears in a television episode of "Miami Vice" in 1989.
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Nugent signs an autograph on the Astrodome floor during the 1992 Republican National Convention. Nugent worked with MTV's "Rock the Vote" campaign.
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Nugent signs an autograph on the Astrodome floor during the 1992 Republican National Convention. Nugent worked with MTV's "Rock the Vote" campaign.
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Nugent holds a crossbow over his head in New York's Central Park in 1993. Nugent served as a county sheriff in his native Michigan and became an advocate for gun rights, hunters and conservation.
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Nugent holds a crossbow over his head in New York's Central Park in 1993. Nugent served as a county sheriff in his native Michigan and became an advocate for gun rights, hunters and conservation.
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Nugent, center, plays with the super group Damn Yankees circa 1993.
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Nugent, center, plays with the super group Damn Yankees circa 1993.
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Nugent salutes a crowd in Lansing, Michigan, during a sober driving event sponsored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving in 1999.
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Nugent salutes a crowd in Lansing, Michigan, during a sober driving event sponsored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving in 1999.
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Nugent, right, talks about his VH1 show "Surviving Nugent" in 2004. At right is his wife, Shemane.
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Nugent, right, talks about his VH1 show "Surviving Nugent" in 2004. At right is his wife, Shemane.
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Nugent shows his support for members of the Texas National Guard at a farewell ceremony in Waco, Texas, in 2004.
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Nugent shows his support for members of the Texas National Guard at a farewell ceremony in Waco, Texas, in 2004.
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Nugent, a member of the National Rifle Association board of directors, holds up an assault rifle while delivering a speech at the annual NRA Convention in 2004.
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Nugent, a member of the National Rifle Association board of directors, holds up an assault rifle while delivering a speech at the annual NRA Convention in 2004.
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Nugent performs at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater in Pompano Beach, Florida, in 2006.
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Nugent performs at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater in Pompano Beach, Florida, in 2006.
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Nugent reacts during an interview in Las Vegas in 2007.
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Nugent reacts during an interview in Las Vegas in 2007.
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In recent years, Nugent has appeared with Republicans at their campaign events. Here, Nugent appears with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Palin's daughter Piper at a rally for Texas Gov. Rick Perry in 2010.
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In recent years, Nugent has appeared with Republicans at their campaign events. Here, Nugent appears with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Palin's daughter Piper at a rally for Texas Gov. Rick Perry in 2010.
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Nugent, top left, sits in the visitor's gallery and listens to Obama deliver his State of the Union address in 2013. Nugent called the President a "subhuman mongrel" in a conversation with Guns.com: "I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame, enough Americans to be ever-vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America."
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Nugent, top left, sits in the visitor's gallery and listens to Obama deliver his State of the Union address in 2013. Nugent called the President a "subhuman mongrel" in a conversation with Guns.com: "I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame, enough Americans to be ever-vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America."
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Nugent and his wife, Shemane, reload ammunition on their 1,200-acre ranch in Concord, Michigan, in June.
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Nugent and his wife, Shemane, reload ammunition on their 1,200-acre ranch in Concord, Michigan, in June.
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