American Guns, Whats your take on the new show???

[Rembrandt]

It was interesting....wonder how long before the IRS is checking up on the wealthy rancher whether he's reporting those bundles of cash as income. Pretty impressive layout, especially the hidden gun room behind the book case......guess the whole world knows about his secret gun room now.

Enjoyed the knuckle buster segment. Father seemed a little domineering and a control freak, hope he doesn't see his family disintegrate and become like Teutul Senior on American Chopper.

Show has some potential....

 

[huchahuchax]

Just watched it. Some of it was absurd, but I liked the focus on cowboy guns instead of the video game guns on "Sons of Guns" (although I do watch that show too and enjoy it).

 

[Model-P]

Funny. I guess everyone has their own take.

I feel Pawn Stars was the first reality show of this genre, and pretty well done. Every reality show since has gotten worse and worse, from Sons of Guns to the Alaskan taxidermist show, to this. They are painfully acted and I wonder if they are all scripted by the same dude. They are so phoney as to be ridiculous. It would be humorous were it not for the fact that for some these shows represent us as hunters and shooters to the general public.

I never thought of myself as a "perv", but I happen to appreciate pretty girls in sexy outfits. Perhaps my age perception is a bit out of whack? The daughter seems old enough to pull the look off, but I could be thinking she's older than she really is. Here in California that look is not over-the-top at all in many areas.

What really did bother me was how the shop was anxious to sell to the biker element. No offense to bikers, but they do carry a reputation for being wild, unruly, and often engaging in criminal activities. Not the image I think it's wise to show the public when portraying customers of gun sales from what is assumed to be an upscale gun store. Perhaps the producers actually have that as an agenda of sabotage. It's the same feeling of sabotage I got while watching the taxidermy show and the tatted out dark hillbillyish characters on Son's of Guns.

The lowball price offered on the SAA was offensive, to say the least. I'm sure it was all scripted, but I was happy the seller was scripted to walk away from that shameful scene

JMO, but you did ask our take on it.
FWIW

 

[Chaz88]

What really did bother me was how the shop was anxious to sell to the biker element. No offense to bikers, but they do carry a reputation for being wild, unruly, and often engaging in criminal activities.

Only a little offended. That reputation is probably a part of the attraction for some. That reputation has been eroded and is eroding fast. These days there is a better than average chance that that rough looking biker you run into is an upscale lawyer, doctor, or excecutive that just plays a biker on the weekend.

They are playing to Harley segment of the biker crowd because it takes a lot of $ to own most of the Harleys produced now. So they are likely to bring people in that have a lot of disposable cash.

 

[model18]

can't stomach any of these shows and I think some of what they do, puts gun owners in bad light in general, especially to people that know zero about guns.
all scripted with a little T&A, inflated egos, questionable business practices, etc, etc makes for bad TV. Spend more time doing real things with guns, and skip this nonsense.

 

[Mike Irwin]

Ok, we're spending more time talking about personalitites and the show itself rather than the firearms aspects of the show.

Closed.