Bowdlerized: Steven Spielberg Edited the Guns Out of E.T. and Now He Regrets It
Steven Spielberg participated in a master class at the Time 100 Summit and announced he regrets editing guns out of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” The film’s 1982 theatrical cut includes a scene of officers chasing young...
Scot-Free: ‘Rust’ Movie Set Manslaughter Charge to be Dropped Against Alec Baldwin
By Andrew Dalton and Morgan Lee, AP
Prosecutors in New Mexico plan to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western film “ Rust,"...
Academics Want Kids to Know That Toy Guns are Dangerous and Could Turn Them...
By Frederick Rivara, University of Washington and Laura Prater, University of Washington
Why don’t parents like their kids to play with fake guns? – Henry, age 11, Somerville, Massachusetts
A major reason parents don’t like kids...
Making a Real Halo M90 Shotgun
I played a lot of Halo as a kid, with friends both locally and online. Throughout the series, I've always been a fan of the M90 shotgun. Over the years, it's changed slightly, but...
The 5 Most Popular Movie Guns of All Time
The Internet Movie Firearms Database is a great resource and a powerful tool. The brains behind IMFDB use its accumulated data to compile a variety of fascinating facts on guns in pop culture and...
Seen on the SHOT Show Floor: An Augmented Reality RPG
There are many sights to be seen as you make your way across the miles of aisles that make up the SHOT Show. Today we ran into a woman holding an RPG and wearing...
Codega: Cutting 10 Minutes from Avatar Isn’t Enough, James Cameron Still Likes Guns Way...
There’s something very annoying about James Cameron’s self-righteous proclamation that he wouldn’t want to fetishize guns today. In an interview with Esquire, Middle East, Cameron said that “I don’t know if I would want to fetishize the gun,...
From Berettas to Miniguns to Air Rifles – The Best Christmas Movie Guns of...
By Kurt Allemeier
From Ralphie’s air rifle in “A Christmas Story” to M1 Garands in a “White Christmas” to a Minigun in “Scrooged,” firearms are a holiday movie tradition. That’s not even counting films like “Die...
Five Great Old TV Shows and The Guns That Made Them Famous
Back in the day, television was heavily censored. Even married TV couples had to sleep in separate beds (Luuucyy!). But characters could shoot at each other with reckless abandon, if the spirit moved them....