Manson has said that "Get Your Gunn" is his favorite song from "Portrait of an American Family". Manson told the "Sun-Sentinel" that "What's great is that ["Get Your Gunn"] is the most uncommercial track, the most politically incorrect." "Snake Eyes and Sissies" was originally planned to be the band's debut single, but "Get Your Gunn" was released instead on June 9, 1994. The single featured "Get Your Gunn" and "Misery Machine", another song from "Portrait of an American Family", as well as two other tracks: "Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn" and "Revelation #9". The titles of the two latter songs are puns based on songs from the "White Album". The child pictured on the sleeve for the disc is Wes Brown, the half-brother of Twiggy Ramirez.