Sons of Guns...where is this show going?

[David LaPell]

I started off liking this show, but now its getting to the point of them putting together novelty guns that really are nothing but amusing to look at. Tonight I watched them put a shoulder stock on a Desert Eagle .50 because some hoo haw had bought this for a defensive arm for his wife (???). But so far I have seen a tri-mount M16, quad mount MG-42's, and a handheld Browning belt fed machine gun. I know they are AK and Saiga shotgun happy but I would like to see some real world guns being set up, not just the never ending set of Class III license guns. Also, do we have to see the one shop jockey flirting with the owners daughter every week? Get it over with and ask her out and stop pretending already!

 

[hatt]

The shows kinda boring to me. The best part I've seen was Miculek trying to outrun the AK. I've missed a bunch/almost all of the episodes however. I wrote it off for good when they made an episode out of assembling ARs from parts. The things even ran.

 

[normanvin]

It goes no where. It just is.

 

[Leonard]

Boring!

Not impressed with him firing grenade launcher in parking lot loaded with fire works it appeared irresponsible.

That said I am glad they are on the more gun shows the better and its in your face to the gun haters

 

[normanvin]

Watching the taser episode. The mount looks pretty rinky dink.

 

[tbury]

Unfortunately for TV interpersonal relationships and big explosions gets more audience share than minutes watching an expert gunsmith run a milling machine. I think this season they have decided to only have projects that are an example of what not to do or that you could never try at home. TV shows are edited to show what the producers/directors think will capture audience share. For example the overplayed "flirting" on last nights show. One has to wonder what the Baton Rouge crime scene is like if the local LEOs need grenade launchers and full auto Thompsons.

 

[Engine 21]

Moron television

It's called "the dumbing down of America". Put anything on television - people are so programmed to watch the box it will have an audience - need proof? any reality show program.

 

[Qball]

I have watched a few shows and i think it is right upp there with OCC

Stone crazy.

If nothing ells on the air, i'd look at it again

Stupid, but entertaining

 

[steamloco76]

I've caught the producers of the show playing gun switcheroo twice now, both times with the daughter. The fist time she is supposedly shooting the .50 Desert Eagle, however if you watch the video in slow motion, she is holding a Beretta M-9 (or 92) after the shot goes off!. Plus the hole they show in the target is way small for .50. The second time, she is 'testing' 12 gage AK conversions, but the gun she actually fires live is a 410 AK.

All the Hollywood fake pyrotechnics get on my nerves too.

 

[ladder13]

One show was enough for me, back to F Troop.

 

[Forester]

Where is the show going?

I'd say here:

 

[Coaltminer]

I thought I'd like it, but no. Custom builds and Class III stuff just don't hold that much interest for what's available to the general shooting public. I can't see it lasting, but what do I know. I'll stick with Andy Griffith.

 

[pinduck]

i'll stick with a test pattern or snow.

 

[sipowicz]

They're only 45 years too late..."Get Smart" was the first to put two guns together with the KAOS double revolver...

 

[kennyb]

yeah...i have grown tired of it as well....the daughter?? ummm..wellll

 

[turbo38gn]

yeah...i have grown tired of it as well....the daughter?? ummm..wellll

Just another country bumpkin... could pass for a character out of Deliverance... maybe the sister of the bango player..

 

[Steve in Vermont]

They're only 45 years too late..."Get Smart" was the first to put two guns together with the KAOS double revolver...

I would like to see a series about responsible people defending themselves with guns. Because I'm a gun owner and belong to the NRA there are people who link me with this show and I resent that.

 

[venomballistics]

with projects on the living edge of just cause for a BATF raid and a shop full of employees that wouldnt be out of place in a work release program the answer is easy ... the show is going against us

 

[cal50]

Its the big time wrestling of "supposed" gunsmithing.
Calling them hacks would be an insult to hacks.

 

[Danny Abernathy]

I liked the first few shows but lately it has been just like American Chopper-a crabby guy running over his employees trying to meet a silly deadline.
just my 2cents

 

[Jeb21]

Hopefully it is going off of the air, but given the rest of the garbage that is on tv it may just stay around.

 

[Titan]

I find the only reasonable firearms programming to be on the Outdoor Channel or Versus.

For me, 'Sons of Guns' and Showtime's 'Lock and Load' (among others) just play into stereotypes and don't do much to help the broad firearms community.

 

[Rule3]

Was it anywhere to begin with? It's going right where it should be, down the drain.

All the other similar shows should go also. How many Choppers Crabs, Ice Roads, Parking Wars, Storage wars. Pawn Shop stuff
It goes on and on. It's all junk!

 

[Smithhound]

I would agree that the first couple of episodes were different and interesting, i did like the one where they rebuilt the flame thrower for the WWII vet, that was kinda touching, especially the look on the guys face when he was firing it. However the bulk of it makes me glad I don't have these folks for neighbors.
A big question I have is this: how are they being able to manufacture FA weapons for people? I watched one show where a guy brought in a box of torched parts for a German MG42 and they (supposedly) built it up as a working FA model. I thought FOPA 86 put an end to that? Are they just making this as a post 86 dealers sample? Another question, pertaining to the flame thrower episode, I thought flame throwers were considered destructive devices, how can they REWAT a display flame thrower and stay out of jail?
Maybe I'm missing something, if so feel free to clue me in.
PS: I don't even think the guys Daughter is that good looking, seems kind of slow to me (I know that's cruel, she's probably a good person, but I wonder if all the lights are on).
RD

 

[pilgrim6a]

Where is it going?
Like most bad TV shows, it will likely go for 10 years.
I have seen the BATFE rip dealers apart on a rumor. Dealers fined for an illegible ZIP CODE on a yellow form. I guess NFA rules are lax. Or "RED JACKET" is only a TV production fiction.
It sets a bad example.

 

[HEAD0001]

I must be the odd man out. I enjoy the show. I like the fact that there are a bunch of gun nuts on TV. And you never know what you are going to see next. I think they are a group of average Joe's like us(or like me) who enjoy what they do for a living.

Are some of them a little full of themselves. Yes they probably are. But who cares. I watch the show for a little bit of enjoyment, and it provides that for me.

I just don't take the show seriously. I take it for what it is. Entertainment. Only thing it is missing is Chum Lee!! Now that would be something-Chum Lee at Red Jacket. Tom.

 

[ibthumper]

I must be the odd man out. I enjoy the show. I like the fact that there are a bunch of gun nuts on TV. And you never know what you are going to see next. I think they are a group of average Joe's like us(or like me) who enjoy what they do for a living.

Are some of them a little full of themselves. Yes they probably are. But who cares. I watch the show for a little bit of enjoyment, and it provides that for me.

I just don't take the show seriously. I take it for what it is. Entertainment. Only thing it is missing is Chum Lee!! Now that would be something-Chum Lee at Red Jacket. Tom.

I agree. I enjoy the show for what it is. It's not a show me how show. Yea, the big dog is kind of harsh to his team. If it was truly a hostile work environment, I don't think these guys would hang around long. As for the daughter, I don't have any complaints.

 

[CajunBass]

I'm sure everything they do is legal. I suspect that showing hours of paperwork being filled out would make for really boring TV. The owner, can't think of his name, does take the time to explain the paperwork and the law from time to time.

I watch the show when I happen to catch it on. I don't go out of my way to look for it, but it's entertaining. The daughter is cute, but at my age, most women are "cute." The employee's all look like my son's friends. The tatto's will fool you. Most the my son's friends seem to be pretty decent types. I suppose the employee's are too.

The boss...well..."Will"...that's his name, he's just the boss. He rants and raves, and the employees ignore him pretty much. Same as I always did.

I really can't figure out what the big deal is about hooking two, three, four...twenty-seven AR's/M-16's together is. Why not just get a SAW or two?

 

[jack the toad]

To each his own but I gave it up after the 2nd or 3rd episode.
I realize the scripts and video is to draw an audience but I think it fits in with most trash they show on tv today. I wouldn't be surprised if the producers have them make a belt feed from an antique potato gun the picker sisters found. Makes about as much sense as having the OCC clowns help put handlebars on a gun.

 

[hatt]

To each his own but I gave it up after the 2nd or 3rd episode.
I realize the scripts and video is to draw an audience but I think it fits in with most trash they show on tv today. I wouldn't be surprised if the producers have them make a belt feed from an antique potato gun the picker sisters found. Makes about as much sense as having the OCC clowns help put handlebars on a gun.

The OCC episode was one that I did see. I can't believe that jury rigged trigger was all they could figure out. That didn't work. That Paul Jr. advised them on how to make work after quickly looking at it. Just made them look incompetent.