We all know the reasons why they are not made anymore and why they don't show or teach this stuff in schools anymore.
The youth are being taught that anything gun related is bad.
Films like that would never be allowed in a public school today.
Folks like to say this online, but frankly, ACTUAL current culture has seen more adoption of gun safety programs such as the NRA Eddie Eagle Gun Safety program in schools than ever before. There are schools shooting air rifles in gym class in the Dakotas, and there are school affiliated Trap teams all over the country.
The video is boring, and it was military propaganda even when it was made. Kids tune out to boring stuff, and EVERYONE has learned to be cynical of biased propaganda… Kids learn a hell of a lot more about Kentucky Long Rifles from Red Dead Redemption and about M14’s from Call of Duty than they would retain from a video like this. Equally, this kind of education is absolutely inundative on YouTube - there is an absolutely MASSIVE book of knowledge being shared for free online, 24/7, with better production value and quality, in most cases.
Want kids to learn about firearms? Volunteer. Get linked up with your local 4H shooting sports group, get linked up with local Scout troops, and put in the hours - the majority of which being spent on MARKETING to ensure attendance, and on fundraising to reduce cost of entry hurdles for kids to participate. Start hosting NRL22 or PRS Rimfire matches, or Appleseed events, and let kids shoot for free. Connect with your church youth group and offer to instruct gun safety and marksmanship events. Start a Facebook page and help organize local events to connect gun owners together and facilitate participation in actually shooting (get guns out of the back of the closet), then use that as the anchor pin to further GROW the gun owning community. Don’t know how to instruct or operate matches or classes? Find local instructors and organizations and ask how you can volunteer to help facilitate growth. Do SOMETHING.
Over a hundred million gun owners in the US, and too many are standing on their own islands, talking a lot about how they think things should be done to make more people like shooting (then out of the other side of their mouth criticizing other shooters and gun owners, and criticizing younger generations for whatever thing they can think up), but so very, very few of those folks are actually participating in a community of marksmen, or doing any thing at all to promote gun safety and marksmanship to their non-shooting community, or to the next generation…