“Hunt Jews” Instagram Gun Video: What Is Actually Verified About the _Duncannn Account
A disturbing Instagram Story circulating online shows a man displaying numerous apparent firearms, magazines, ammunition and tactical equipment while making explicitly antisemitic statements about “hunt[ing] Jews” and saying that the “Austrian painter was correct.”
The footage is real enough to establish what was shown and what was said.
What it does not establish is equally important.
Viral posts have identified the man as “Duncan MacDonald,” described him as being in Florida and suggested he works as a chef or in catering around Jacksonville. Israel News Pulse was unable to independently verify those details from the available public evidence.
As of the morning of September 18, 2026, we also found no public announcement of an arrest, investigation, search warrant or other law enforcement action connected to the video.
What the video actually says
The clearest preserved copy is an approximately 84 second screen recording of an Instagram Story carrying the handle _duncannn.
During the video, the speaker is heard saying:
“You’re gonna hunt Jews. So we’re gonna, you know, take ’em out, because the Austrian painter was correct.”
The wording matters.
Some posts describing the video paraphrased the statement as the man announcing that he was going to “hunt Jews.” The first pronoun in the preserved recording sounds like “you’re,” not “I’m.”
Seconds later, however, the speaker says “we’re gonna…take ’em out,” language that appears to include himself in the statement.
The phrase “Austrian painter” is widely used online as a euphemism for Adolf Hitler. The speaker does not audibly say Hitler’s name in the preserved passage.
The weapons shown in the footage
The camera pans across what appears to be a substantial collection of weapons and associated equipment.
Visible in the recording are numerous long gun shaped objects mounted on wall racks, additional long guns near a large gun safe, detachable magazines, loose ammunition, ammunition boxes and what appears to be a tactical plate carrier.
Several of the long guns have features consistent with AR platform rifles or carbines.
The speaker also refers to various items himself, using phrases including:
“This is the big boy.”
“Fifty cal Bushmaster.”
“Forty rounds.”
“Sixty rounds.”
“Those are all five five six.”
“Bulletproof vest.”
“Gotta get to Wisconsin, get the rest of the guns.”
Those statements should not be confused with independent verification.
The footage is not clear enough to establish the exact manufacturer or caliber of the claimed “fifty cal Bushmaster,” the actual capacity of the magazines, or whether cartridges described as “five five six” are in fact 5.56×45mm ammunition.
Likewise, what the speaker calls a “bulletproof vest” appears visually to be a tactical plate carrier, but the video does not show whether ballistic plates are installed or what level of protection it might provide.
There is also no evidence in the clip that any firearm was discharged.
Is the man actually Duncan MacDonald?
The Instagram account shown in the recording uses the handle _duncannn.
A profile image incorporated into the preserved footage displays the name “Duncan MacDonald.” The speaker also calls himself “Uncle Duncan.”
That makes it reasonable to report that the account presented itself as belonging to someone named Duncan MacDonald.
It does not independently establish the speaker's legal identity.
Israel News Pulse found no authenticated government record, verified professional profile or other authoritative source connecting the Instagram handle to a specific individual named Duncan MacDonald.
That distinction is particularly important because searches for the name produce multiple unrelated people.
The Florida and Jacksonville claims remain unverified
The video drew wider attention after StopAntisemitism posted it on X on September 17.
The organization wrote that “Duncan MacDonald” was in Florida and said he “appears to be a chef/work in the catering business in/around Jacksonville.”
The antisemitic language and the display of apparent weapons can be checked against the video itself.
The Florida and Jacksonville claims cannot.
The preserved Instagram footage contains no visible location tag, Florida license plate, recognizable landmark, street sign or other reliable indicator showing where the video was recorded.
Its clearest geographical reference actually concerns another state.
At one point, the speaker says:
“Gotta get to Wisconsin, get the rest of the guns.”
That statement does not prove that the speaker lives in Wisconsin or that any guns are located there. It is simply what he says in the recording.
The chef connection is also unresolved
There is at least one intriguing public lead.
A 2021 report from the Washington County Insider profiled a man named Duncan MacDonald who was working as a corporate executive chef at Vino con Volo Bar + Italian Kitchen in West Bend, Wisconsin.
The overlap in name, culinary occupation and Wisconsin is notable.
It is not enough to establish that the chef profiled in 2021 is the person behind _duncannn.
Israel News Pulse therefore is not identifying the two as the same person without stronger evidence such as an authenticated professional account, employer confirmation or direct acknowledgment.
No reliable current source reviewed for this investigation connected the Instagram account with a Jacksonville restaurant or catering company.
What StopAntisemitism got right, and what remains only a claim
The core description of the footage is supported by the video.
A man is shown with numerous apparent firearms, magazines, ammunition and tactical equipment. He uses the words “hunt Jews,” says “we’re gonna…take ’em out,” and invokes the “Austrian painter.”
Other parts of the viral description remain unsupported by independently verified evidence.
Specifically, Israel News Pulse could not establish that:
- The speaker's legal name is Duncan MacDonald.
- He resides in Florida.
- The footage was recorded in Jacksonville or elsewhere in Florida.
- He currently works as a chef or caterer.
- The Wisconsin chef with the same name is the same person.
- Every gun shaped object shown is a functioning firearm.
- The tactical vest contains ballistic protection.
- Any weapon, magazine or other item shown was illegally possessed.
The video is disturbing without adding claims the evidence cannot yet support.
Is law enforcement investigating?
As of approximately 10 a.m. Israel time on September 18, Israel News Pulse found no publicly available statement concerning the video from the FBI, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Clay County Sheriff's Office, the relevant state prosecutor or the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida.
No public arrest announcement or charging document connected to the footage was located.
That does not mean authorities have not received a report or begun assessing the material.
Threat investigations can take place without public announcements, and agencies commonly decline to disclose active investigative activity before an arrest or charge.
For now, the accurate formulation is simply that no public law enforcement action connected to this specific video had been located by the time of publication.
Could the statements constitute a crime?
Potentially relevant law exists at both the Florida and federal levels, but the existence of disturbing language does not by itself establish criminal liability.
Florida Statute § 836.10 covers certain threats communicated through publicly viewable electronic records, including digital video or audio.
Florida also has a risk protection order law that can allow law enforcement to ask a court temporarily to restrict a person's access to firearms when the statutory requirements are met.
At the federal level, 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) addresses certain communications containing threats to injure another person.
But criminal threat cases involve more than identifying violent words.
Courts examine context, the nature of the statement and the speaker's mental state. In Counterman v. Colorado, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a true threat prosecution requires at least a showing that the defendant consciously disregarded a substantial risk that the communication would be understood as threatening violence.
Nothing in the preserved video itself establishes that prosecutors believe those legal standards have been met.
What remains the biggest unanswered question
The most important unknown is no longer whether the antisemitic statement exists.
It does.
The unanswered questions are who exactly made it, where he was, whether the apparent weapons belong to him, and whether law enforcement is examining the footage.
Those questions matter because viral social media posts have already begun transforming unverified details into apparent facts.
The available evidence supports a narrower but still serious conclusion: an Instagram account presenting itself under the name Duncan MacDonald published footage in which a man displayed numerous apparent weapons and said, “you’re gonna hunt Jews,” followed by “we’re gonna…take ’em out, because the Austrian painter was correct.”
Everything beyond that requires further verification.
Israel News Pulse checked available public sources through approximately 10 a.m. Israel time on September 18, 2026. This article should be updated if law enforcement, Meta, the account holder or another directly involved party provides additional information.
