Family-Friendly Firearms: Difference between revisions

Sometimes it gets explained—but usually, not.

 

* Changes in American gun culture, akin to those that made things like smoking an increasingly rare phenomenon in American media.

* Imitability. Shooting someone with a bullet is [[Don't Try This At Home|an imitable act]] which might result in negative publicity, but a kid can't find his Dad's laser rifle and zapfry his buddy. [[Technology Marches On|Yet]].

Note that this is usually limited to bullet-firing weapons. More destructive weapons like RPG's may still be seen in works using this trope, despite (or perhaps ''because'' of) the increased difficulty in obtaining them. In rare cases, it will have [[BFG|large guns]] fire actual bullets, but still no realistic small arms.

 

* When characters who would be expected to own guns—such as policemen—don't have them, or don't use them in cases which they would be expected to do so.

* When most or all of the guns in a particular universe are energy-based or use [[Abnormal Ammo]], regardless of the owner or the universe's particular technological level.