A Riverside gun store owner has posted a video that appears to show actor Sacha Baron Cohen — disguised as a “Hungarian immigrant” — getting caught as he attempts to dupe the store’s employees.

(Note: The link below is to a video with explicit language.)

Warrior One Guns And Ammo posted the video on its Facebook page Tuesday, July 17, just after Cohen released the first episode of his new satirical show “Who Is America?“

The episode features Cohen, disguised as an Israeli gun-rights activist, tricking current and former Republican congressmen and gun lobbyists into appearing to endorse a program to arm school children as young as 4.

It looks like Cohen wanted to do the same in Riverside — but failed — the owner said on Facebook.

“yeah we don’t play that …” they wrote on Facebook. “This was an attempt to make gun owners in California look like racist gun toting crazy people.”

The video shows a camera crew and a man with a long beard and tight pants walking into the store on the northern end of the city as owner Norris Sweidan and employees narrate the security camera footage.

“Right there, I was like your accent is fake as (expletive),” Sweidan says in the video. “And those leather pants!”

Soon after, Sweidan says, “You’re Borat,” referring to Cohen’s character from a 2006 mockumentary. The man and his camera crew then quickly leave.

The video doesn’t appear to have been posted online before Tuesday. The first episode of the show aired Sunday, July 15 on Showtime.

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Q&A: Science, politics and the worst pandemic in 100 years Employees at the store, 2222 Kansas Ave., were buzzing about the experience and rewatching the video Wednesday, July 18. But they said official comment would have to come from Sweidan, who said he wasn’t available Wednesday because he’d been swamped with phone calls in the wake of the video’s release.

Showtime’s vice president of entertainment public relations, Nicole Elice, said the network had no comment. Cohen couldn’t be reached.

The targets of the first episode include U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa.

Rohrabacher said his comments were unfairly edited.

The Riverside incident caught the attention of gun rights figures, including NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, whose Twitter post about it was retweeted more than 3,000 times and liked nearly 8,000 times as of Wednesday evening.