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Yet another television show having American criminals using machine guns, lots of machine guns

Apr 24, 2025 | Media Bias

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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.

Amazon’s Reacher (Season 3, Episode 7, March 20, 2025) shows a gun smuggling gang in a massive machine gun fight with ATF agents.

More examples of this type of bias are available here.

Here is a video on Hollywood’s bias against guns.

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