>>517532
I blame Die Hard 2 in particular for more than it's fair-share of early 90s anti-gun sentiment.
>muh glock is plastic
>muh glock goes through metal detectors
>black plastic guns are for terrorism and crime, normal people can't afford them
All those 80s action movies… how many of them showed criminals using machine guns? Most of them, right? Yet that is far from reality. Nevertheless, it created an intense perception among the hollywood-worshiping American public that America has a pandemic of machine gun toting criminals. This mistaken impression is even worse among Europeans who get their notion of America entirely from hollywood. A substantial portion of Europeans believe that in America machine guns are freely available anonymously over the counter with cash because that's what hollywood and video games (GTA, and GTA-genre games in particular) depict.
Snubnose revolvers have always been the most popular guns for crime in American cities, yet if you polled anti-gun Americans about which guns they wanted to ban, the AR-15 would be at the top of the list and revolvers of any sort would be at the bottom. Because AR-15s are modern machine guns while revolvers are harmless old-fashion guns. This disconnect between perception and reality is created by mass media that depicts fiction but is perceived as truth.
pic related relevant image using hollywood reference meme for irony