Sons of Bucks

Another reality show has bitten the dust. I think I've posted about "Sons of Guns" in the past. It's one of the more annoying, offensive and fake reality shows out there and I'm fairly glad it's gone. Despite what you may hear on Fox and see on the internet, America is not as absorbed with the wonderfulness of guns as the NRA would have you believe. The usual suspects are but, we knew that.

However, Sons of Guns was cancelled (evidently) because the star of the show was arrested on charges that he raped a former girlfriends eleven year old daughter. I hope that for the girl's sake it's not true. That's just awful. I don't care at all for Will Hayden, the show's star, who claims a bitter ex-girlfriend trumped up charges. Well, that does happen but, so does child rape. He hasn't been convicted of any charges yet so, we won't convict him here.

We will, however, talk about what a vainglorious poseur he is. Will Hayden is a vainglorious poseur. There, I said it. Will shouldn't be but, he is. He's an over-weight, out of shape, middle-aged, ex-Marine. Not a crime but, I suspect his portfolio is as thin as his hair. He owns Red Jacket  Firearms in Baton Rouge, La. Prior to the Discovery Channel show his claim to fame was owning a small gun manufacturing shop that seemed to be known for modifying AK47's into internally suppressed weapons. That's a big deal for people who want to shoot as quietly as possible. At the end of last season they were moving to a new site, expanding the operation. They were always looking to get local police contracts and hinting around that they might get military contracts for some of their work. And they were selling t-shirts online.  Eh that's Hollywood, Baton Rouge style. Mostly they 'invented' weird guns and fixed old cannons and machine guns and then shot the shit out of old cars to show off their handiwork. It had it moments but it was primarily just a lot of redneck noise.Shit blowed up good!

I got a kick out of the cheap drama though. One storyline was that Vince, his gunsmith, left Will to start his own business because Will was an arrogant prick. Well, OK. But then it turned out that, though Will owned the shop, Will did not have the federal license required to possess fully automatic weapons. I guess there was some missing paperwork and 10 missing guns that had caused the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms to pull their license. They kept the company and the show going by turning over the company- on paper- to Vince. When he quit, they had to get yet another owner.  

That was shady enough but there was also the usual reality series fake drama where Will or his son-in-law would get annoyed with the camera crew (that was only there to make them wealthy) and they would get angry and shove the camera, demanding to be left alone, dammit! They re-edit that five ways from Sunday and keep showing that it will happen...coming right up....


 Yeesh. Well, that's show biz! I don't know for sure if the charges against Will were the main reason Discovery Channel cancelled the show or if it was that plus poor ratings. Within days of the horrific Sandy Hook murders, the channel pulled the plug on a less offensive show- "American Guns"- out of respect for the murdered children. Yet they kept Sons of Guns. I suspect ratings. That's usually what it is. Think back to the Duck Dynasty bullshit. As long as AE is making money, the weirdo-beardos can hate the gays all they want. Have you seen the automotive coolant commercial where one of the Duck Dynasty boys (Goober???) NASCAR babe, Danica Patrick and driver-that-you-don't-know, Clint Bowyer are escaping an angry mob and the Duck dude hops in the station wagon exclaiming: "Who knew making duck calls would get people this riled?"? It wasn't the duck calls, dipshit....