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...
Television show machine gun myth
CBS’ SWAT, yet more machine gun wielding white supremacists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXWLjI5S6AM Despite the image provided by CBS’ shows such as SWAT, it grossly exaggerates the mass public shootings by white supremacists and absurdly implies that these attacks involve machine guns. As the Crime...
Season Finale for Blue Bloods filled with misinformation about guns: illegal smuggling of guns, machine guns, and more
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,...
Three more episodes of The Rookie obsessed with Machine Guns, misleading claims about crime
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...
Law & Order: Organized Crime: First two episodes show 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. The first two episode of NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime (Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2,...
The Use Of Machine Guns On Television Shows Never Stops: ABC’s The Rookie
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...
Criminals on television entertainment keep using machine guns: Again on NBC’s Chicago PD
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 8, March 10, 2021) has machine guns being used...
The Use Of Machine Guns On Television Shows Never Stops: NBC’s Chicago PD
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...
The continual emphasis on crimes by white nationalists at CBS, plans for another mass public shooting
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...
The use of machine guns on Television shows never stops: NBC’s The Blacklist
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...
At Real Clear Politics: TV Shows Push Gun Control Myths — in Sync With Biden
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...
CBS is obsessed with showing criminals using machine guns in crime shows: Magnum PI does it again
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...









