In this episode of CBS’s SWAT (S4 E18 May 26, 2021), the team discovers that the white supremacist organization they have been going after this season, the Imperial Dukes, is even much bigger than they originally thought. They discover that the white supremacists are planning to disguise themselves as police officers and attack a peaceful demonstration of blacks who are upset with police racism.…
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The notion that criminals are buying machine guns at gun shows and then smuggling them from Georgia up to New York City is absurd. Despite all the misleading information about guns in television shows these days, The Blue Bloods two-hour season finale (Season 11, Episodes 15 and 16, May 14, 2021) stands out as a particularly biased example.…
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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. Here ABC’s The Rookie has three episodes that are obsessed with criminals using machine guns, or “assault weapons” as the show calls them (Season 3 E11 April 18, 2021; E12 April 25, 2021; and E14 May 9, 2021).…
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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. The first two episode of NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime (Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2, April 1 and 8, 2021) has machine guns being used in an attempted assassination of a police officer and then in stealing Coronavirus vaccines.…
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As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of ABC’s The Rookie (Season 3, Episode 3, January 17, 2021) has machine guns being used in separate attacks by different criminals twice during this show.…
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As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 8, Episode 7, February 17, 2021) has machine guns being used four times during this show. They also make a big deal multiple times noting that these guns fire the dreaded .223 caliber bullet, with no mention that these are small caliber rounds, rounds that are even allowed to hunt deer in most states because they are more likely to wound than kill the deer.…
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In this episode of CBS’s SWAT (S4 E9 Feb 17 2021), the team is morning the death of one of their members from an “armor piercing round” fired by a white supremacist. They also discover that the white supremacists are in training for another mass public shooting. Of course, the white supremacists are training with machine guns.…
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As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of NBC’s Blacklist (Season 8, Episode 1, November 13, 2020) starts off with a machine gun being used to break a federal witness out of federal protection.…
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece on media bias at Real Clear Politics.
…Last week, the Biden administration promised gun control groups that it will soon roll out a massive push for limits on firearm purchases and other measures. President Biden reiterated that promise on Sunday. And the television networks aren’t waiting to lay the groundwork for this effort.
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In an opening scene, Magnum PI has Thomas Magnum dreaming about yet another machine gun attack against him (Season 3, Episode 7, February 5, 2021). Given the number of machine gun attacks against Magnum in the series, this is an entirely reasonable concern on his part.
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people.…
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