History Series / SonsOfGuns

* BadassGrandpa / RetiredBadass: Woody Williams, a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, had his flamethrower restored and lit up a mock bunker...at the age of 87. Having won the medal for using flamethrowers several times at Iwo Jima, Woody strapped a flamethrower on for the show and lit up the bunker like he knew what he was doing.
** Several [=WW2=] veterans including Woody got together to fire a restored anti-tank cannon in one episode.

** To be fair, it's hard to blame him - At the time, he was a managing partner of Red Jacket, the sole holder of their FFL(the licence that allowed them to operate) due to Stephanie and Will ''both'' losing their FFLs for negligence, and he was the Head Gunsmith in the shop, but despite all of this, Will was regularly berating and humiliating him on the show, he got no extra pay, and Kris - Steph's at-the-time boyfriend and future husband - was clearly being groomed to take over the shop and Vince's managing partnership, despite not being a qualified(or at the time, even competent) gunsmith.

A RealityShow on Creator/DiscoveryChannel, ''Sons of Guns'' follows Red Jacket Firearms of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A combination firearms shop and custom firearms manufacturer, they're particularly known for AK-47 and Saiga (AK-style shotgun)-type weapons, and an M-16 pattern semi-auto rifle called the Katana.

** One season three episode had the crew procure a revolver owned by ElvisPresley for Joe Perry from Music/{{Aerosmith}}, and in another episode restored a naval cannon for him.

** The quad [=MG42=] rig was devised as a more affordable alternative to the WW2-era quad .50 BMG anti-aircraft rig. They demonstrated it by shooting down model airplanes.

** Several WW2 veterans including Woody got together to fire a restored anti-tank cannon in one episode.

* TanksButNoTanks: One episode had the Red Jacket crew get their hands on a WW2-vintage M36 tank destroyer; many of the cast members frequently calling it a "tank".

* GeniusBonus: When Will visits one of his friends who is a military buff, the friend's house turns out to be pink. Will's friend becomes defensive and claims that it is camouflage. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Desert Pink]] is an actual camouflage pattern famously used by the LRDG and SAS convoys fighting in the Sahara in WorldWarTwo.

The show was cancelled on August 27th, 2014 after airing five seasons due to child molestation charges brought up against Red Jacket owner Will Hayden.

A RealityShow on DiscoveryChannel, ''Sons of Guns'' follows Red Jacket Firearms of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A combination firearms shop and custom firearms manufacturer, they're particularly known for AK-47 and Saiga (AK-style shotgun)-type weapons, and an M-16 pattern semi-auto rifle called the Katana.

-->'''Will:''' He looks like SylvesterStallone and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger got together, ''and got mean''.

** Mikey, Paul, Jr., and Rachael from ''AmericanChopper'' drop by to shoot some guns.

** Averted as hard as it can be possibly be averted. Steph mans the front of the shop, and many times ends up surprising the hell out of most of the customers about how much more she knows about guns than they do.

* ZombieApocalypse: Will and Joe worked with Max Brooks, author of ''TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' and competed to see who could build a gun that could protect someone in such a situation, and tested them with a mob of mocked-up zombie targets. Will's gun even had an [=EOTech=] sight with a biohazard symbol instead of the normal reticule.

* AllforNothing: The SOCOM buyer backs out at the last minute, despite Kris going to Vince and paying the inflated price Vince asked for the barrels that were missing to redeem himself of the mistake he made.

** They've worked with a few other 20mm guns (a Solothurn antitank rifle, which the Lahti above is a derivative of, as well as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oerlikon_20_mm_cannon Oerlikon anti-air autocannon]] and a couple of its derivatives), but nothing so far beats the last episode of Season 5, when they restored and fired a '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152_mm_towed_gun-howitzer_M1955_%28D-20%29 152mm Russian D-20 howitzer]]'''.

** They've worked with a few other 20mm guns (a Solothurn antitank rifle, which the Lahti above is a derivative of, as well as the Oerlikon anti-air autocannon and a couple of its derivatives), but nothing so far beats the last episode of Season 5, when they restored and fired a '''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152_mm_towed_gun-howitzer_M1955_%28D-20%29 152mm Russian D-20 howitzer]]'''.

* CoolSword: A hybrid [[MacheteMayhem machete]]/[[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]], meant to [[AwesomeYetPractical combine the swinging strength and coolness factor of a katana, with the raw chopping power of the machete.]] It is ''very'' cool.

* RantInducingSlight: [[JerkassVince]], in the April 11, 2014 episode, gets an earful when he calls Kris "Boy Wonder:"

* ShootOutTheLock:
** Will, at the prompting of SWAT Team Consultant/Mercenary Marco, decided that simply having a guy using a shotgun to shoot out a lock then switching to a rifle took to long. So he took an M16 and mounted a shotgun on it. He called it a Master Key, because it can open any lock.
** To be fair, though, it's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAC_Masterkey not really an original idea.]]
*** However, having a semi-automatic shotgun mounted below ''hasn't'' been done before. The only existing examples were either pump or pull-bolt action.

* BayonetYa: One of the requirements for the zombie guns in the season 3 finale was that they be able to engage in melee combat once their ammo was exhausted. Both weapons were fitted with bayonets, one of them consisting of two spikes permanently mounted to the barrel. Also, if you look closely at the Masterkey shotgun, the muzzle brake was filed into sharp points for use in close-quarters combat.
** Actually, the points on the muzzle brake are standard on any shotgun designed for door-breaching. They allow the breacher to place the shotgun firmly against the wooden door without the muzzle of the gun slipping off. Its application as a melee weapon is largely coincidental.

* PermaStubble: Will often sports this more often than not.

* DuelingShows: With another Discovery Channel series, ''Series/AmericanGuns''.