I never saw Elmer Fudd with a rifle anyway. He always had a shotgun, usually double barreled. Guess Daisy Ruth (author of the article) doesn't know the difference.
Well to give her the benefit of the doubt, she may have just been quoting series executive producer Peter Browngardt ... who doesn't know the difference either.

https://www.wfla.com/news/vira...oney-tunes-cartoons/

It's just as well. He wasn't very safe with it anyway.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
It's just as well. He wasn't very safe with it anyway.

... well the dang double barreled rifle thing fired more than twice without reloading

WTF? The Inmates are running the asylum.

"Be vewy quiet! I'm hunting wibawals." Regards 18DAI

Well if the fudds don’t wake up to the true intent of the gun ban lobby now that their mascot has been disarmed I guess they never will.

What the heck is he going to hunt the wabbit with?? A slingshot?

It was just a matter of time. Did anyone notice Porky Pig, the little rascals were removed years ago?
Porky was offensive to Stutterers
and The righteous Bill Cosby bought the entire Little Rascals collection (never to be shown again) due to its blatant racism.

Yosemite Sam was disarmed too. Pretty sad and pathetic these losers who are in charge of making these decisions nowadays.

What about Marvin the Martian; has he been disarmed too? Just can't go around disintegrating things and other characters, and planning to destroy the Earth...

Just a distraction so they can pocket billions on violent video games.

Interesting message. Elmer can't have a shotgun, but Bugs can go after him with dynamite.

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Originally posted by Hobbs:

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
It's just as well. He wasn't very safe with it anyway.

... well the dang double barreled rifle thing fired more than twice without reloading

That model was discontinued, I think,

The new ones are probably not very good anyway. I am thankful for my DVD collection of the classic Looney Toons.



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Originally posted by irreverent:
What the heck is he going to hunt the wabbit with?? A slingshot?

Probably gonna make him a vegan too.

Yosemite Sam, the rootinist, tootinist, confrontation avoidance counsellor in the whole, Wild West.

Henceforth, Elmer Fudd will go by the name of "De Gwim Weapew".

From 'social media' quoted in the article linked in the OP:

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It was never about the gun, it was about Elmer's flawed, challenged masculinity.

Incredible. Instead of a firearm, Fudd is going to use a giant sickle. These people are sick.

My Dad is rolling in his grave.

It was only a matter or time, folks. Here in yUK a kid's comic favourite since 1937, the cowboy 'Desperate Dan' famed eater of cow-pie, no longer has his holstered sixgun - in fact, it disappeared back in 2007, and was replaced with a water-gun.

Along with the huge cow-pies and designer stubble.

Read and weep -

Desperately dull: The politically-correct Desperate Dan for the 21st century
By GRAHAM GRANT

Last updated at 08:35 17 September 2007

In his prime he used to shave with a blowtorch, part his hair with a pistol shot and munch cow pie - horns, tails and all.

But these days Desperate Dan is a mere shadow of his former dynamic self.

In fact he is nothing more than a politically-correct big softie, according to the daughter of the man who created the Dandy's best-loved character 70 years ago.

Dr Jennifer Barnes, whose father Albert Barnes edited the comic from 1937 to 1982, said her father would be horrified if he could see the modern Dan.

"It's completely ridiculous," said 69-year old Dr Barnes in an interview following the rebranding of the comic last month when it was relaunched as Dandy Xtreme. "It does make me sad to see the changes."

Over the years the once-portly Dan has been slimmed down and his six-shooter replaced with a water pistol.

His favoured cow pie, with animal parts protruding through the crust, bit the dust during the BSE crisis.

Dr Barnes protested: "It's supposed to be fantasy. It's obviously not reality. Father wanted a character who was the toughest man in the world and had an enormous appetite.

"He could smoke a ship load of tobacco through a funnel, but of course now he's not allowed to do that and I think that is fine. But he looks very different these days and it is rather sad.

"He seems to be drawn as a big daft man these days and daft never came into the equation with my father."

Dan disappeared from the comic in 1997 but was reinstated three years later following a fierce backlash. Morris Heggie, who was editor until last year, admitted the character had undergone many changes.

He added: "Desperate Dan is not now quite the same old desperado he was. He is now quite laid-back in comparison."

But the current editor, Craig Graham, insisted that while the 21st century Dan had changed "a little", he had never heard the term politically correct.

It's not often that I use the word f*ckwit' with any degree of real venom, but on this occasion I make an exception.