Several Entertainment Television Episodes have Massive battles with Criminals Using Machine Guns

As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%). There are few rifles, and the survey did not even mention fully automatic weapons. A similar finding is available from the FBI UCR report where 2.6% of all murders involve rifles of any type and 0.3% of all murders involve unspecified “other guns.” There is a reason for that. Since 1934, there was only one possible known use ever of a civilian using a machine gun in a murder. And even before 1934, they were very rare. Here are three television episodes that show more people being killed in each of them with machines guns than have been murdered in the last 87 years. Paramount’s Yellowstone (Season 4, Episode 1, November 7, 2021) has a very long extended shootout with machine guns being used by criminals as well as Montana livestock agents (who knew livestock agents carried machine guns in their trucks). This clip shows just a portion of a very long-drawn-out machine gunfight between law enforcement and criminals. NCIS Los Angeles (Season 13, Episode 3, October 24, 2021) has criminals trafficking in machine guns massively outgunning BATF agents. And Chicago PD (Season 9, Episode 7, November 3, 2021) has one drug gang using machine guns to kill members of another drug gang and steal their drugs. Here is a video on Hollywood’s bias against guns. Shows from the current season. NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 9): E3, October 6, 2021 The Equalizer (Season 2): E1, Oct 10, 2021 CBS’s “FBI: Most Wanted” (Season 3) E1 September 28th, 2021 & E2 September 28th, 2021 CBS’s S.W.A.T. (Season 5) E1 October 1, 2021, E2, Oct 08, 2021 CBS’s “FBI: International” (Season 1) E2, September 28th, 2021. In another “FBI: International” (S1 E1) criminals were shown carrying machine guns but not using them. From past seasons, here are some of the shows with criminals using machine guns (this is not meant to be a complete list): ABC’s The Rookie (Season 3): Episode 11 April 18, 2021; Episode 12 April 25, 2021; Episode 14 May 9, 2021; Episode 3, January 17, 2021 NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime (Season 1): Episodes 1 & 2, April 1 and 8, 2021 CBS’s Bull (Season 5): E6, January 18 2021 CBS’s FBI Most Wanted (Season 2): E4 January 19, 2021, E5 January 26, 2021. CBS’ Coyote (Season 1): E2 January 7, 2021 and E5 January 7, 2021 CBS’ SWAT (Season 4): E7 Jan 13, 2021, E8 January 27, 2021, E9 Feb 17 2021 CBS’s Blue Bloods (Season 11): Episode 16, May 14, 2021 CBS’ Magnum PI (Season 3): E3 Dec 11 2020; Episode 7, February 5, 2021 CBS’ The FBI (Season 3): E1 Nov 17 2020, E4 Jan 24, 2021 CBS’s NCIS LA (Season 12): Episode 8, January 10, 2021 NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime (Season 1): Episodes 1 & 2, April 1 and 8, 2021 NBC’s The Blacklist (Season 8): Episode 1, November 13, 2020 NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 8): Episode 7, February 17, 2021 In last years’ season (2019-2020), we haven’t been keeping close track, but other recent examples include: CBS’ SWAT (Season 3): E11 January 15, 2020; E21 May 20, 2020 In last years’ season (2019-2020), we haven’t been keeping close track, but other recent examples include: CBS’ SWAT (Season 3): E11 January 15, 2020; E21 May 20, 2020 CBS’ FBI (Season 2): E12 January 14, 2020; Episode 18, March 24, 2020 Fox’s Deputy (Season 1): E1 January 2, 2020 FBI: Most Wanted (Season 1): Episode 4, January 28, 2020; Episode 6, February 18, 2020, Episode 9, March 24, 2020 Chicago PD (Season 7): Episode 10 January 8, 2020; Episode 16, March 4, 2020; Season 7, Episode 17, March 18, 2020; Episode 20, April 15 2020 Hawaii Five-O, Season 10, Episode 18, February 28, 2020; Episode 20, March 13, 2020; Episode 21, March 27, 2020 Magnum PI, Season 2, Episode 18, May 1, 2020 Blue Bloods, Season 10, Episode 19, May 1, 2020 The Blacklist, Season 7, Episode 18, May 8, 2020 Here is a list of shows from the 2018-19 television season that showed criminals using machine guns. The Rookie (Season1): E2, E4, E9, E17, E20 Magnum PI (Season 1): E1, E15 Chicago P.D. (Season 6): E14 Other examples of television media bias on this particular point can be found here.