Long, but I think worth your time.
I would say the best description of the piece is “Balanced”. It starts out with Knob Creek, and doing a good job at showing the good-natured, family-oriented, and lawful nature of the Shooting culture, as well as gun show people. Also they were smart to add in the cost and paperwork discussion of owning Full-auto weaponry. Also while there was a bunch bullshit about .50 BMG rounds, which was shameful, It was nice that they didn’t track down the one guy at the show who sells WWII Vintage uniforms…and then skip over the French, Italian, American, and Portuguese uniforms, and focus on the Swastika Armbands and flags of the German surplus, or zoom in on the guy who sells sundry books from, detail stripping the 1911, making canned food, history of the Mauser Bolt action, and focus on the Anarchist cookbook, or the silly “convert your gun to full-auto” rags.
They then go to Camden New Jersey and follow the US Marshals doing hot-entry arrests. Looks like a fairly solid team to my untrained eyes. Because its a gun show the host keeps wanting to talk about guns, but they really just talk about gangs and drugs. Perfectly fair.
He then speaks to some “Community Activists”, and while one person appears to have been drinking the anti-gun kool-aid, but even they admit that the drugs and gangs are the big problem.
They go to a Philly Gunshop to talk about the problems in New Jersey, and that’s handled pretty well, tho if any part smelled slanted, it was this. Of course this guy’s shop is CONSTANTLY under attack by the anti-gun groups despite him doing nothing wrong besides running a long-time family business in what has become a high-crime gang-area.
They also talked to a trauma surgeon which was overall straight-forward. I was glad to hear that he made sure to include “Hunting rifle” in descriptions of guns that have high-speed projectiles.
Next was the evidence locker of the Camden New Jersey Police where he spends a lot of time waving around Cheap AK clones, and AR-15s, and being a total asshole in equating them to modern military weapons. Still there was an ample number of “Fud Guns” from double-barrel shotguns, .30-06 rifles, and I saw a Remington Nylon, so despite this segment looking like an early-1990s “Assault Weapon” hit-piece, the gangs are simply using anything they can get their hands on.
Last, and totally least was an interview with Joyce Foundation shill Byron Miller. He does nothing but spew unchallenged and untrue propaganda. Hard to add or subtract to that much, you just put the now Unemployed Bryan Miller on your documentary, there’s only one way it can go.
Then in closing was a flare for the dramatic, which was more cheese than gold.
Still while there was some bias towards gun control, they lead with Knob Creek, setting the stage for the show with lawful and reasonable use of some of the most restricted, and “Scary” guns out there, and young kids, and old men all having the time of their life.
Worth a watch, if anything.
I disagree, I think it was very biased. His very attitude while at knob creek made it clear that, although he enjoyed shooting the stuff, he thought the whole thing was over the top.
When he talked to the parents and the kids, I felt he did it with an air of disapproval. Perhaps my perception as there wasn’t anything overt, but that’s how it came across to me.
The rest of it was nothing more than propaganda.
I found especially egregious (there were many things to choose from, but this one bordered on outright libel), was his statement at the very end about the Philly gun dealer at the very end “who claims the law protects him from the consequences of his actions”
BS. The dealer never claimed that. He very correctly claimed that he is not responsible for the criminal actions of others.
No, that was a very biased piece IMHO, for many of the reasons you pointed out as well as others.
Oh…I loved the part where the Marshal talked about how highly trained in the use of his firearms they are, but the bad guys aren’t and then flat out implied that innocent bystanders are only ever shot by criminals, not by them. I almost laughed out loud at that part.
Definitely some bias against guns, but it seemed that he was trying to be fair even if his natural state was to disapprove. That he was trying to be fair at all shows how far this issue has come.
I can answer his question at the end though. The first person who breaks the law with that gun is responsible. Not the dealer in Philly. The person who bought from the dealer and then broke the law by selling to the out of state buyer is the responsible party.
Knob Creek _IS_ over the top. That’s what makes it so damn neat!
My wife made me turn it off after he said a .50 BMG was illegal to use against people in war and that the compression of it flying past your head would kill you.
Well that was probably the worst bit of drivel until you get to Bryan Miller at the end.