Over 60% of Americans think owning a gun will make their lives safer.
In fact, owning a gun increases the risk of homicide, suicide and unintentional death.
To make first-time gun buyers think twice, we did the unthinkable.
We opened a gun shop in NYC With hundreds of guns. All of them with a history.
Hidden cameras captured the gun buyers' reactions.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doin'?
Hey, how are you doin'?
Hey.
Hi.
You are interested in a gun, right?
Oh yes.
Okay, cool. Are you looking for something for target practice or...?
Protection.
More for just protection?
Just safety.
Pro take the amendment. It's kind of hard to find that around in New York City.
I was showing your wife. First gun that I showed her was this
revolver. It's the easiest gun we have to use. It's our most popular
one. It's 22-caliber, six-inch revolver. It's also a gun that a
five-year-old found in his parent's bedroom and went down and shot his
nine-month-old baby brother with it.
When it says, "Shooter, a five-year-old kid dead," what does that mean?
That's the history of the gun.
This is the one? This is the one that the kid used? Holy [bleep].
Can you take this [bleep] back after you do it?
This is a nine-millimeter semi-automatic. It's a very handy gun. It's
easy to use and carry it in your purse like the gal from Walmart. Her
two-year-old son reaches into her pocketbook, pulls it out, shoots her.
Jesus.
Dead, gone, no mom.
Collectors love this one. Adam Lanza's mom had this in her collection
too. So he took this one and several other guns and killed her and went
down to Sandy Hook, killed six teachers and 20 innocent children, 20
little kids --gone, like that.
You walked into a McDonald's in San Diego, killed 21 and injured 19.
It's one of the deadliest man shootings in American history.
They thought, ironically that they were protecting their nine-month-old.
She thought she was protecting her two-year-old.
Nine-millimeter semi-automatic.
Forty-caliber compact.
Forty-five caliber.
Nine-millimeter submachine gun.
Twelve-gage, pump action shotgun.
Why don't you have a closer look.
They entered the store looking for their first gun.
This is how they left.
I was pretty blindsighted by just the entire history of every gun in the store.
It made me actually think that I'm not going to buy that gun.
It made me think twice and I would not buy one.
It is one of our rights, but my opinion has definitely changed. I don't feel safe with a gun.
You don't want to be the Walmart case.
Every gun has a history. Let's not repeat it.
Find out if a gun will make your life safer at gunswithhistory.com #gunswithhistory.
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In fact, owning a gun increases the risk of homicide, suicide and unintentional death.
To make first-time gun buyers think twice, we did the unthinkable.
We opened a gun shop in NYC With hundreds of guns. All of them with a history.
Hidden cameras captured the gun buyers' reactions.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doin'?
Hey, how are you doin'?
Hey.
Hi.
You are interested in a gun, right?
Oh yes.
Okay, cool. Are you looking for something for target practice or...?
Protection.
More for just protection?
Just safety.
Pro take the amendment. It's kind of hard to find that around in New York City.
I was showing your wife. First gun that I showed her was this
revolver. It's the easiest gun we have to use. It's our most popular
one. It's 22-caliber, six-inch revolver. It's also a gun that a
five-year-old found in his parent's bedroom and went down and shot his
nine-month-old baby brother with it.
When it says, "Shooter, a five-year-old kid dead," what does that mean?
That's the history of the gun.
This is the one? This is the one that the kid used? Holy [bleep].
Can you take this [bleep] back after you do it?
This is a nine-millimeter semi-automatic. It's a very handy gun. It's
easy to use and carry it in your purse like the gal from Walmart. Her
two-year-old son reaches into her pocketbook, pulls it out, shoots her.
Jesus.
Dead, gone, no mom.
Collectors love this one. Adam Lanza's mom had this in her collection
too. So he took this one and several other guns and killed her and went
down to Sandy Hook, killed six teachers and 20 innocent children, 20
little kids --gone, like that.
You walked into a McDonald's in San Diego, killed 21 and injured 19.
It's one of the deadliest man shootings in American history.
They thought, ironically that they were protecting their nine-month-old.
She thought she was protecting her two-year-old.
Nine-millimeter semi-automatic.
Forty-caliber compact.
Forty-five caliber.
Nine-millimeter submachine gun.
Twelve-gage, pump action shotgun.
Why don't you have a closer look.
They entered the store looking for their first gun.
This is how they left.
I was pretty blindsighted by just the entire history of every gun in the store.
It made me actually think that I'm not going to buy that gun.
It made me think twice and I would not buy one.
It is one of our rights, but my opinion has definitely changed. I don't feel safe with a gun.
You don't want to be the Walmart case.
Every gun has a history. Let's not repeat it.
Find out if a gun will make your life safer at gunswithhistory.com #gunswithhistory.
