http://features.hollywoodreporter.com/the-gun-industrys-lucrative-relationship-with-hollywood/
The NRA and the entertainment industry interact publicly as mortal
enemies. But as the number of weapons shown in movies and TV steadily
increases — and stars like Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie make fortunes
wielding guns onscreen — a co-dependence that keeps both churning is revealed: “making the liberal bias a lot of money”
BURNISHED
BY THE LOW LIGHT OF GLASS-WALLED DISPLAYS, THEY seem like ancient
artifacts, but the objects here are beloved contemporary icons. One case
houses the massive Smith & Wesson Colt .44 wielded by Clint
Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” Callahan in the 1973 film Magnum Force. In another rests the Beretta 92F used by Bruce Willis in Die Hard. All the great shoot-’em-up classics — The Bourne Identity, Pulp Fiction, The Wild Bunch
— are here. This exhibit, celebrating cinema, isn’t in Hollywood; it’s
thousands of miles away, a museum at the headquarters of the National
Rifle Association in Fairfax, Va.
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