At the trap club I used to shoot at, someone had a collection of old American Rifleman magazines there to read through. In one of them from the 1970s, there was a feature on a recent interview with Jack Lord in which he mentioned that he’d be very supportive of a national ban on handguns. Obviously, this sort of attitude has been quite fashionable in Hollywood for about nearly the last 50 years or so.
Jack Lord was fairly conservative in some ways but was an absolute idiot on guns.
In one episode some evil person imports 6 little .25 automatics into the islands. There is an immediate crime wave caused by the guns.
They go so far as to show a person finding one of the guns then their face turns to evil as he picks it up. Clearly the gun is magically evil. Turning ordinary people into demons.
5.0 eventually “gets them off the streets” and everything goes back to normal.