While we're on the subject of guns on film and TV.
One of my favourite films is 'Shout at the devil'
I still cringe when Lee Marvin and Roger Moore are caught poaching, they throw their double rifles into a river before running away.
Another gem is in an old British feature film from a rather violent, gritty 70's cop show called The Sweeney.
(Cockney rhyming slang, Sweeney Todd - Flying squad )
In the film, the police are hunting down some ruthless armed robbers. In one scene, a bank manager has a sawn off shotgun stuffed in his face and if I remember correctly, the robber goes on to say...
'You are privileged to be looking down the barrels of a gold plated Purdey shotgun squire !
Now, as a bank manager, I'm sure you'll appreciate that any man capable of cutting a gun like that in half wouldn't hesitate to cut you in half ! '
Ah, they don't make films like that anymore