[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by MT2008

I forgot to mention that there's an episode of "The Closer" where Kyra Sedgewick's squad is trying to track down a group of teenagers who are plotting a mass shooting. The teenagers have acquired M4s, body armor, propane tanks, and detonators. What's seriously retarded, though, is that at one point in the episode, the squad goes back to the mall where they got the propane tanks, and Sedgewick says that she wants to check out a sporting goods store at the mall where she thinks they bought their guns. In other words, the show is implying that kids can get M4s at their local mall sporting goods store!

Ben41 told me on the discussion page for the show that I was mistaken about this, but I watched the episode again, and I don't believe I am. I consider the promotion of such ignorance to be quite "anti-gun".

Were these "M4s" full auto in the episode? But let's put that aside. Say a sporting goods store DID sell AR-15s and they looked like M4s, as in stock, carrying handle, receivers, and barrel length being close enough. I don't think stores are allowed to sell anything shorter than 16in barrels. And let's say this fictional store just sells a standard 16in barrel length. These are teenagers. They couldn't have legally bought rifles unless they are 18, which I am assuming the episode is implying they are not and if they showed the "M4s" shooting full auto, how many teens know how to convert civilian rifles to full auto? And body armor? Did the episode say how they get those?

And you don't just "buy" detonators for anything, unless they took some from construction grade explosive and even then, that's a stretch.