Anti Gun movies

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Re: the Closer episode,

Maybe the original script laid out how the boys got their equipment, but got cut down due to time or flow. Maybe a lengthy scene explaining the various loops and taxes involved just got edited down to "we bought them at the mall."

Or maybe the writer is a dumbass who doesn't know the first thing about guns and body armor

[funkychinaman]

Also a possibility.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Or maybe the writer is a dumbass who doesn't know the first thing about guns and body armor

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Also a possibility.

"Possibility"? I'd say it's dead-on.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by MT2008

"Possibility"? I'd say it's dead-on.

I'm just saying, A) there are many steps from coming up with plot and getting it in front a camera, and B) it's a 44 minute show, explaining the intricacies of federal gun law may mess up the pacing a bit.

And even if it was mere ignorance, it's ignorance, and not some conspiracy against the 2nd Amendment. Besides, I'm shocked, *shocked,* that the mainstream media would spread misinformation about gun ownership.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

I'm just saying, A) there are many steps from coming up with plot and getting it in front a camera, and B) it's a 44 minute show, explaining the intricacies of federal gun law may mess up the pacing a bit.

And even if it was mere ignorance, it's ignorance, and not some conspiracy against the 2nd Amendment. Besides, I'm shocked, *shocked,* that the mainstream media would spread misinformation about gun ownership.

Agreed, ignorance is ignorance. I never said it was a conspiracy. I'm not that type of person.

[k9870]

I saw an episode of cold case where they trace back the owners of a mac 10 to a crime, it starts out making sense. The gun was confinscated, an illegal gun. stolen off a truck of coninscated weapons by a corrupt driver. But then it had stupid stuff like it being sold at a gunshow booth to somebody, and they take it home for a little cash. This made no sense seeing its a machine gun. They were trying to make it look like american gunshows are some type of arms bazaar.

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by k9870

They were trying to make it look like american gunshows are some type of arms bazaar.

If only we lived in a perfect world...

[Mazryonh]

Originally Posted by k9870

I saw an episode of cold case where they trace back the owners of a mac 10 to a crime, it starts out making sense. The gun was confiscated, an illegal gun, stolen off a truck of confiscated weapons by a corrupt driver. But then it had stupid stuff like it being sold at a gunshow booth to somebody, and they take it home for a little cash. This made no sense seeing its a machine gun. They were trying to make it look like american gunshows are some type of arms bazaar.

In the Guns TV miniseries made in Canada, American gunshows are made out to be "no questions asked" gun bazaars too--if you have plenty of cash and a fleet of straw buyers at your command. There is a fairly detailed segment where a gangster's girlfriend tries to get back into his good graces by organizing a straw-buying operation at an American gun show before smuggling the weaponry back into Canada.

The gunrunners situated in Canada in that miniseries also have a fairly sophisticated operation as well, with equipment capable of converting semi-auto firearms to fully automatic, along with tools to melt down any guns that are being actively traced by the Canadian law enforcement, IIRC. They even had plans to get some heavy firepower off of a corrupt American military base commander to send it off to some tin-pot dictator in Africa. So yeah, the American gun industry doesn't get off lightly in this production.

On the other hand, a motion picture like the original Red Dawn is one of the biggest pro-civilian-gun-ownership and training movies around, right?