What movies/tv shows portray civilian gun ownership as totally normal?

There was an old Laurel and Hardy film in which Stanley's wife comes in the back door of her neighbors house carrying a double shotgun. She had been duck hunting and gave the neighbor [Hardy's wife] a few ducks. This, of course was in the early 1930's so duck hunting was a normal event but I thought the story line interesting that it was Stanley's WIFE who had been hunting.
 
As has been mentioned Dallas (the original) had trap shooting portrayed as a normal recreational activity and in one episode it showed one of the families, (Ray Krebs I think) out on the ranch shooting a .22 for fun.

The Big Bang Theory had Leonard take Penny to a shooting range on a date.
 
Some of my favorite movies that feature the value of firearms, in no particular order:


Zulu, Dirty Harry, Death Wish, Black Hawk Down, Quigly Down Under, McQ, Gran Torino, The Magnificent Seven, Sargent York, High Noon, Tombstone, Outlaw Josey Wales.
 
This, of course was in the early 1930's so duck hunting was a normal event but I thought the story line interesting that it was Stanley's WIFE who had been hunting.
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Do a search for the New Jersey shark attacks.
There's a few pictures that show women toting shotuns in New Jersey (of all places!) "hunting down" the killer sharks in backwater creeks.
It's pretty funny looking at them today since othe odds of that happeing now are slim and none - and slim just left town! :D


RE: TV.
I swear one episode of Leave it to Beaver showed a rifle of some kind propped in the corner of Wally and the Beave's bedroom.
And wasn't there one episode where some uncle was supposed to buy Beaver a gun and he never showed up at the deparment store to buy it?

Original War of The Worlds movie has some stupid kid dressed up like a cowboy shooting his cap gun at the alien spaceship. Kinda funny...kid may have started the carnage :D.
 
Not all of them.
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LOL, no not all of them, but frequently they did. My real, maybe too subtle point was that showing firearms normally on a show is not the same as showing normal use of firearms, as desired by the OP.

What I'm talking about is a movie/tv show where having and using firearms is just a normal part of life, not related to the main story at all.

That is, the characters are shown as owning firearms for recreation and defense, but the guns are never used for a story-related purpose (shooting the badguy, shooting a stalker, etc.)

Let's exclude hunting as well, as that is the only "legitimate" reason for owning guns in a lot of minds.

Just like in real life, 99.9% of firearms are never fired or displayed in anger, but they're an integral part of a lot of peoples' lives - what media shows this?
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So we can rule out most of the shows listed so far because they do show illegal acts with guns, guns displayed in anger, or guns fired in anger. Gunsmoke and The Rifleman are fairly egregious to the OP's request, LOL.

Do a search for the New Jersey shark attacks.
There's a few pictures that show women toting shotuns in New Jersey (of all places!) "hunting down" the killer sharks in backwater creeks.
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Link? Google revealed no such images based on the criteria you gave.
 
A quick google brought up this image.
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Page here.
 
There would seem to me to be nothing "normal" about TV and movies anymore. I would rather read a good book than put up with all of the video/audio sync errors and the obnoxious LOUD digital noise and "music" they use. TV was better in the 60s than it is now. At least the video and audio were in sync.:confused:
 
Yep - that's one of the pictures.
I believe there's two or three more that appear to have been taken in that same spot.
I can't find anything right now but that one picture.
Next time "Shark Week" airs, I'll try again and see if more come up.
 
Check out any of the "family" shows made during the 50s, 60s, and some in the 70s, there is nearly always a gun(s) in the house. ON the wall, in a case, leaning in the corner,etc., as part of the background.

One even sees a rifle (.22?) on the bedroom wall of the boys room in shows like Ozzie & Harriet!

And there isn't any show set on the frontier (including when the frontier was Kentucky) that doesn't have a gun in the set somewhere, usually over the mantle...

Best gun related line I know, from Tremors, when they are going to ride for help, and have a .30-30, Reba hands up her rifle and says, "here, take mine, its only a .375 H&H..." ONLY:D:D
 
Firefly / Serenity had daily carry and use of firearms of all types as normal, even for women and high class society. Bars had lockboxes, high class parties had scanners and a butler would help store it for you.
Admittedly, lots of bandits and western style shooting, but everyone is armed.
 
Alaska The Last Frontier

Swamp People

Doomsday Preppers suggest that people get guns if they do not have them already, and to know how to use them if the need comes up.
 
How I Met Your Mother

Robin owns several guns, practice shoots them on occasion and takes other characters to shoot with her in a few episodes. It's a minor but known part of her character.
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Barney also has a framed display of cartridges in his apartment though it's never shown him with guns.
 
I think it may have been said, I don't recall. But I just finished an episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and Danny Devito is carrying. He's asked "do you have your gun with you?!"
 
My show would be "Rick goes Christmas shopping with the wife" or "oh my, I sat wrong and the grip jabbed my ribs!"
That's about as exciting as real life gun carrying gets, aside from trips to the range or hunting.
 
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