A Light Shining In DarknessTIL that the NRA campaigned to avoid the TV series *MacGyver* and to boycott its sponsors because MacGyver didn’t use guns.
Hubert Figuière@fzer0 source ?
'MacGyver' Taking Aim at Handguns : Television: The show's co-executive producer, a former LAPD officer, says
Steve Downing remembers all too well that when he was an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, it was routine for the department and the courts to auction off guns that had been confiscated during criminal investigations.
J. R. DePriest 
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'MacGyver' Taking Aim at Handguns : Television: The show's co-executive producer, a former LAPD officer, says
Steve Downing remembers all too well that when he was an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, it was routine for the department and the courts to auction off guns that had been confiscated during criminal investigations.