"American Guns" TV show.....

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Just watched the Walther's mounted on that kit car. Holy CRAP! the "BLOCKS" of aluminum were just ugly and disgusting to actually mount to a car, and possibly even worse than that is they were viewable from the outside of the car (the BLOCK brackets) and you also saw wiring just hanging off of there.


i mean they didn't even tuck the wires up and out of the way. Not to mention they could of removed 80% of material on those mounts and it still would of been plenty strong. 8 GRAND for that!... unreal.

JOe
 
The show is so scripted that who knows if there is any truth to any of the things they have shown. Just because they show them buying x amount of guns for whatever money or selling guns for a specified amount doesn't mean they actually did it. They made it sound like the cowboy preacher bought the single action they built for $10,000 and he never bought it or even intended on buying it, all just scripted for the show. To top it off Rich claimed to have a handfull of orders for more single actions when he didn't even sell the one as shown on the show. Mark
 
This show is absolute proof that television is nothing but a waste of time and electricity.
 
I watched about an hours worth of clips on youtube. Meh. Too much eye candy on the daughter and wife's part, and it's blatantly deliberate... but I guess you can't really get television ratings anymore without some amount of boobage considering our increasingly decadent and mindless culture. Not to mention that everything comes off as scripted and artificial. There's not a lot of substance. It's there, but it's muddled. Rick is one of those obnoxious, self-absorbed types that I immediately have a severe personality clash with.

Sorry, bear with me. Maybe the reason I see this show as so dumb is because I haven't had television for almost the past decade and am thus sensitized to the media. That, and I'm a teen who's over the years become increasingly embarrassed by the overall condition of his generation... erghh, the son and daughter just annoy the crap outta me.

Now, do I think it's good that the yuppie culture is increasing its interest in firearms ownership? Yeah, that's cool. I'm all for breaking social barriers and people understanding that defending oneself isn't a right only afforded to hicks and rednecks; owning guns is "normal". I guess the show is good for our cause overall for that reason alone. But I simply don't find the show itself appealing enough to waste my brain on, just the same as almost any other "reality" television show. Personally I'd rather watch the REAL Gunsmoke with James Arness, Milburn Stone and Ken Curtis. Or Bonanza. Good moral television right there. I learned a lot from those shows. And there's guns. :cool:
 
Not to mention they were giving the impression that they were firing those weapons near that house (called the Clamshell House or the Sleeper House by folks around here), but I can tell you for a fact there ain't gonna be NO shooting near that house! That whole area is heavily populated with houses in all directions.
 
Kingofthehill said:
Just watched the Walther's mounted on that kit car. Holy CRAP! the "BLOCKS" of aluminum were just ugly and disgusting to actually mount to a car, and possibly even worse than that is they were viewable from the outside of the car (the BLOCK brackets) and you also saw wiring just hanging off of there.


i mean they didn't even tuck the wires up and out of the way. Not to mention they could of removed 80% of material on those mounts and it still would of been plenty strong. 8 GRAND for that!... unreal.

JOe
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I have to agree, to charge that man $8k + for that hack job is insane!! I could have done a BETTER job for about $7,000 less. There is no way the guy who owned that car was happy with the job, I can just picture him at the car show..."and here are the upside down Walthers haphazardly attached to the frame, and you may not have noticed, but there are wires dangling about under the bumper..."
 
Would mounting a firearm on the OUTSIDE of your vehicle be considered Open Carry?

:uhoh:
 
The whole "Bond car" pistol-thing was ridiculous.......so far the dumbest thing on the show so far......and we're only four episodes in! (or three??)

I guess the helicopter trips are gonna be a regular thing on this show. I think the 'copter trips are Discovery Channels creation.......and paid for by same.
Now, I don't know how successful Rich Wyatt & family have become (before this show)......and WTH....more power to them.......but no way can his shop be wealthy enough to support a helicopter on standby. Pilots don't work cheap either......nor do the maintenance guys that keep helicopters flying.....not to mention the insurance cost.



I predict the show will fail and not get a second season.......but then I also predicted "American Idol" would fail too, so who knows.

The show is a HOOT! I both love & hate it!
 
From what I've seen, his shop was sustaining itself, but was not a raving success. Most people I know avoided it more than any other shop in Denver...
 
This show

I suffered through the first two episodes, but am done with crap. I don't know how he is when he isn't hamming it up for the cameras, but Rich comes across as an arrogant, egotistical, money-grubbing, self-obsessed twit. I despise people like that, and have no desire to see n my entertainment. As well, after a mere modicum of online research, hearing how Rich is the center of his own galaxy makes me like him even less.
 
"...no way can his shop be wealthy enough to support a helicopter on standby..."

Not on a daily basis for sure. If he has a five-digit-dollars collection buy planned with an antcipated 33% profit margin on resell, he might put a rental copter on standby.

Over all I don't like the status-conscious alpha male ruthlessness of it all.
 
i hope the irs checks him out with all the profit he is making.im sure that would be a good show to watch. i know rich personaly,and yes he is as phoney as they come.
 
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I'm sorry but looks like typical brain-dead garbage to me
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Oh you mean like literally every single reality TV show in existence? The biggest thing I'm surprised about is that some of you seem surprised that AG is garbage.

Also, I've never seen it - not one minute of a single episode. Just goes to show you, you don't always need to have firsthand experience to know something's a bad idea.
 
Carl N. Brown said:
"...no way can his shop be wealthy enough to support a helicopter on standby..."

Not on a daily basis for sure. If he has a five-digit-dollars collection buy planned with an antcipated 33% profit margin on resell, he might put a rental copter on standby.

Over all I don't like the status-conscious alpha male ruthlessness of it all.
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It is just a joke to add to your thing, that this guys supposedly owns a heli. And the facts he carries 100,000 k in a duffel bag with silver bars. I think its all for the show and as Carl said he must have it as a rental.
 
Last night I watched my first episode and it featured
the guy coming in and getting a handmade colt .45 for
single cowboy action shooting. $10,000 gun ouch! :eek:

Anyway, I liked the show better than Sons of Guns or
Top Shot. Still waiting for a gun show that I will really
enjoy.
 
Anyway, I liked the show better than Sons of Guns or
Top Shot. Still waiting for a gun show that I will really
enjoy.
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^^^+1 . The way these shows are going( SoG,AG), eventually someone will come up with the right combination of entertainment and information to be more appealing to gun enthusiasts as well as those who are ambivalent about the subject.
 
POCKETS


Someone mentioned the old Showtime series; that was Lock 'N Load http://www.sho.com/site/locknload/home.do .....
(not to be confused with R. Lee Ermey's Lock N' Load http://shop.history.com/lock-n-load-...ys-lock-n-load).
That show was a blast. It made no pretense at being reality...it was just fun. It was based at 'The Shootist' gun store in Englewood, Colorado and featured actor-director Josh T. Ryan playing the part of a salesman there. It was entertaining, but only lasted for 6 episodes. But even my wife enjoyed watching that show.
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Same here, my fiancee really liked it and would laugh at the people sometimes and what was said. She really liked the host saying he seemed like a cool salesman and mentioned how whenever were at a gun shop we never experience a salesman like him and its too bad.

If my day job wasn't so exhausting i would love to work at a gun shop again on the weekend or something. I absolutely love it and have a real passion for it and if i don't know the answer, i'll listen, research and try and experience it myself. If i don't know it, i don't say it. If it comes out of my mouth, i have a pretty good idea of whats going on.

I wish Lock'N Load would come back. Both the showtime and R. Lee Ermey's version.

JOe
 
I watched like 2-3 episodes in a row of R. Lee's L&L just a couple nights ago. I don't think it's gone, they just pull shows for awhile so people don't get burnt out on 'em.
 
I watched like 2-3 episodes in a row of R. Lee's L&L just a couple nights ago. I don't think it's gone, they just pull shows for awhile so people don't get burnt out on 'em.
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IIRC; There are no new episodes of R. Lee Ermey's Lock N' Load being made. I do see reruns though.

Just to reiterate; There were 2 TV programs named basically the same...the difference being the apostrophe placement.
One was on The History Channel with R. Lee Ermey; Lock N' Load.
The other was the 2009 Showtime series with Josh T. Ryan; Lock 'N Load

Both of those make American Guns look like the absolute crap it really is.

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