Did you notice the revolver Bruce Willis was carrying near the end of 12 Monkeys when he gets shot in the airport, and wonder what kind it was? Or did your buddy bet you a beer over what full-auto gun Walter’s carrying when he bails out of the Dude’s car during the ransom drop in The Big Lebowski? Given the anti-gun zeitgeist, the LA Times has noticed our friend, Chris Serrano, main man behind the best source of info on guns featured in movies, TV and video games, the Internet Movie Firearms Data Base. The good news: According to the Times piece, the “cacophonous national debate about violence in entertainment” hasn’t hurt their traffic any. “The firearms are a tool used in the telling of a story,” Serrano said. “It’s the modern version of a samurai sword. It’s part of the art. I don’t feel there’s a glorification of firearms.” And even if there were, would that be so bad?
LA Times: imfdb.org the Last Word on Guns in Movies
Dan Zimmerman
It is now know that the NSA keeps a copy of every credit card trans, also all phone calls ,and every computer e-mail or trans, they run key word scans to look at different people …….. and the police will and can trace a firearm to the owner: What they can not trace is a gun show cash sales and private sales… trades , gifts, or firearms that been taken from someone or even a government agent….
What no M-60 from Rambo listed Darn LOL!!
Guns in media and movies: good thing.
Actual firearms in the hands of non-government entities: very bad thing.
Hope you enjoyed this trip into the convoluted space that is the liberal mind. Please watch your step as you exit the vehicle.
Any1 who would make Me, Myself & Irene has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting.
I do know that the Army is maintaining an illegal database if you register your guns on post (which is required I’d you live on post or bring your guns on post) so they know what I had in 2003. I’m guessing the ATF is keeping an illegal data base of who has had an instant check done on them, so they know who is buying guns, even if they don’t know what. It will be easy enough for ATF to demand dealers to turn in their bound books so they can find out what you bought at some point, though they won’t know if you still have it.
I figure that since I am in the military, I have purchases guns, a Gadsen flag, a Gonzales flag, a copy of Atlas Shrugged and I’m an NRA life member that they’ll come for me first. When I disappear start burying your guns and ammo.
I’m in the tech industry (no surprise there). Knowing what I do about information systems, since the 1990’s I’ve been operating under the assumption that any government agency is no more than one degree removed from knowing every gun I’ve bought through an FFL.
I don’t think there is One Database To Register Them All, and even if there were, it’s too late to throw it into the fires of Mount Doom.
Instead we have state-level databases covering >95% of the US population that can be queried at any time by Federal agents with court orders. Backing that up, we have the bound books of FFLs, and if Fedzilla is taking a close interest in you, sending out LEAs to gather data from bound books is not a significant impediment.
I’m more surprised that some people DON’T expect their state and local LEOs to have access to their FFL-facilitated firearms ownership data, frequently right at the point of contact via the in-vehicle data terminal.
Ah, Jim Carrey. Always good for a laugh. I really enjoyed his bio-pic, “Dumb and Dumber.” You can catch him in the upcoming Kick-Ass 2, in which he playes a former mobster turned vigilante using a military-themed alias, “Colonel Stars and Stripes.” … Oh, don’t worry. He doesn’t use an “assault rifle;” he uses a baseball bat (or, in the movie, it appears to be an axe handle) and his guns are unloaded and used for intimidation only … That’s Jim Carrey.
I’ve actually enjoyed the gun owner posts. Oh well, pictures of rifles will be nice. This is a gun oriented site after all.
Have you ever bought anything from Midway, Graf, Brownells, Sportsman’s Guide or even the satanic Cheaper Than Dirt? Yeah I know that you bought the powder, bullets and primers for firearms that you don’t own. Its pretty hard to hide.
Nice segue Robert. I’ll get in on this next one.
Well, hopefully. 😉
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…and every night it breaks down all over again.
Welcome.
Funny, I feel the same way about gun-grabbers. What kind of unnatural, pathetic, self-loathing, sub-human freak would campaign against the ability to defend himself and for others to defend themselves?
I can’t really begrudge him such pointed hatred because, well, I feel the same way about him and his side. I wish gun-grabbers would wear a yellow hat or something that identifies them as such so that when I see them get raped, mugged, murdered, etc, I can sit back and laugh rather than attempt to help or call 911. After all, what’s the point of aiding in the preservation of those who blight free society with their very presence?
I know for a fact the photo was enhanced in some way. Just look at the EXIF data from the original on Flickr:
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On second thought the kid should have been suspended for using a COMMIE gun. They would have most likely cut him some slack if he had a photo of a good ole American AR-15 (hopefully a Colt).
Just another reason to keep firing…. and to have more than 7 or 10 rounds in the mag.
Connecticut Constitution Article I, Section 15
Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state.
I love COD:BO2 also if anyone else here games and enjoys some War games, you MUST check out Spec Ops: The Line, I was absolutely blown away by how amazing and hardcore this game was, steam has it on sale for under ten bucks most of the time and it’s worth five times that, once you start you will not stop until it’s complete and you’ll love it, highly recommended.
Here’s my review from steam:
The most brutal, painfully thought provoking “game” I’ve ever played. A simulation is more like it, a simulation of a soldiers mind spiraling into PTSD. Mind is officially blown.
Controls are kinda wacky, had to change them to standard but the enviro/gfx/gameplay/story/music and voice acting were all top notch, it’s short but well worth it a play, the combat was intense and skill based as well is the multiplayer. 10/10 but not for kids, brutal warfare with adult theme and plot.
Here’s my bro’s review after he played it based on my telling him about it:
Spec Ops: The Line is a great story-driven shooter that keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire game through. Sure, the shooting mechanics are a bit off at times (use a controller!) and the setting and action sequences can get quite repetitive but the games saving grace is a fantastic and well told story. Just do yourself a favor an go into this one without reading anything and you will have a blast. 7.5/10