Guns Found Here (2018) User Reviews

BATFE documentary short.

[b-m-g-1 · 2/10 · 27 April 2018]

Short documentary on the BATFE records of firearms with anti-gun overtones.

Quirkumentary style very much at odds with its message and content

[bob the moo · 2 June 2019]

I do enjoy a good quirkumentary - the type of documentary that takes a subject perhaps of marginal interest, but finds the endearingly weird characters and the general oddity of it all, and makes the film engage off the back of that. This is the type of approach that Guns Found Here seems to be going for, as it engages with a few unusual characters, has a quirky soundtrack, and doesn't do much to break the light mood. The topic of inadequate gun regulation is a very odd topic to do this with though, and it is not an approach that particularly fits this serious topic.

Maybe the angle was to make it lighter and easier to engage with? Or maybe to highlight the inherent comedy of the successful efforts to make gun searches much, much harder than they needed to be Maybe if you did not know about this situation then it would work better, but as it is it fell flat for me, with an odd tone and the content sort of stuck behind it.