The guns made me leery at first...he started off well, then...I have yet to initiate a drive-by shooting...then, "this is my baby." Sad thing is, this may very well be the video chosen so guys like Mitt Romney, Duncan Hunter, and Alan Keyes (yes, Alan Keyes is running again in case you haven't heard) can soapbox how they represent the concerned, values-oriented Americans, rather than the idiotic gamers.

Ummm....... Yeah... I don't even know where to start....

Memo to this kid: hanging automatic weaponry behind you while simultaneously referring to Halo 3 as "my baby" probably isn't the best way to get the candidates to take you seriously.

@GP:

I realize this is important, but PLEASE don't let this become a repeat of the last time gamers and YouTube got together on this. If the video is especially compelling, fine. If not, we really don't need to have 50 of these featured, each one with their own article.

Quick people we must put down a Gun Free Zone by his house because we all know Gun Free Zones are safest place to be, don't believe vile Republican lies that all Gun Free zones happen to be the most violent areas in Democratic Controlled cities and that normal citzens cannot find arms to protect themselves and it's all lies that criminals find their guns and get them illegally on a black market, such lies.....

Banning guns for everyone to use will of course make all guns go away and don't bring up this terrible lies they will just get them from some underground black market, lies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGqiULYbt5Y

Oh dear, and we are the ones who complain about people jumping to conclusions about games and game-players...

There's no evidence to suggest they are his guns, they may be his fathers', who knows, I can understand people thinking like Anti-gamers, and trying to anticipate the fallout from the video, but lets not trick ourselves into thinking any 'special' rules apply about what people are allowed to hang on their walls simply because they are a video gamer, otherwise, rather than anticipating, we are actually starting to believe the hype.

Does it make any difference that they're clearly not real guns?

Those are airsoft rifles- like paintball guns only they look real and shoot 6mm plastic bbs.

No civilian owns an XM-8. (The futuristic rifle pictured below the G36 up top). More than likely, he was trying to look badass.

He ripped off a video seen in the Democratic debate on CNN a while back. A guy said "This is my baby" and pulled out what looked to be an M4A1.

Assault rifles make the best interior decoration. They're covered under feng shui in the metals category, I believe (not sure where plastic lies).

He probably just wants to point out that he plays video games and owns assault rifles and yet hasn't shot up any school campuses.

What a ******* ***** ***** ** ** * * etc..... for ***** sake, this guy is a ******* moron, why the **** would you choose that background? damn, americans are really mentally retarded.

I get the feeling the ‘My Babies’ comment was taking the rise out of the ‘For the Children’ attitude towards games---

no, i think it's because in one of the past presidential debates some moron asked a question about gun control while holding his AR15(civilian version of M4) and saying it was his baby, after that Joe biden made fun of him, he said something like "Well if that's his baby, then he has serious issues".

I will not be surprised if Faux News grabs this video and, as Fedule said, uses it to represent all gamers.---

Fedule and you are right, in fact if i was working for Fox news or anything like that believe, i would put it on the air. this video would be the best thing to ridicule gamers, to make them feel like shit. i actually think this guy is a 'saboteur', an 'infiltrator' with the intention to damage the game community... nobody would be that stupid.

sorry for the double

Here his youtube user page.
http://www.youtube.com/user/huertanix

The bottom one is a prototype version of a rifle borne of the OICW program. The only way he got those real guns is if his mom or dad worked for the H&K.
Though you could modify one of there civilian guns(Slap8-6) to look like the top gun(G36).

I doubt anyone could bring home an XM-8, regardless of if they worked for H&K or not. They don't let you bring samples home.

Ok, I havent had the chance to watch the video yet(will do later), but those are clearly airsoft guns. The XM8 isnt even made anymore, the program got canceled. And even if it did, it's not a civilian rifle. But those democrats wouldnt know it.

x8236986 on those being airsoft.

Even if they were "real," they wouldn't be assault rifles anyway, as it's illegal for a civilian to own an automatic weapon that wasn't made and registered before 1986. But don't let facts get in the way of the pants-shitting hysteria over the scary looking toys..

And on that not, the question itself is rather silly given that the Family Entertainment Protection Act was never signed into law.

Overall, I didn't mind the video...

But there are a few things that disagree with.

1: He mentions that Democrats have tried to introduce legislation to restrict our rights to purchase violent video games. While this is true, what he fails to mention is that the stupidity is absolutely bi-partisan. For every Democratic representative that has tried to "protect our frail and feeble minds" and "save us from these young murder machines" there's a Republican representative who's tried to do the same. Generally, Democrats do it because they want to promote anti-violence, and Republicans do it to reflect their restrictive and linear views of what family values are.

2: The guns in the background are effective to a Republican audience, but as we saw in the reactions of the media and us gamers to the Prez playing games with wounded vets, a simple thing such as his decoration could be used to portray us all as gun-nuts. Regardless of his intentions, people will read into that choice according to their own preconceptions.

3: I understand the "this is my baby" comment... but again, it's one of those things that will mean different things to different political filters. On one hand, it's a sign of our obvious addiction to violence and destruction, on the other hand, its a real life example of how a simple game can become a constitutional lightning-rod.

Recently, I read a post suggesting that all paintballers are perverts becuase of a Fox News piece that showed paintballers and some questionable behaviour. Here you have the same issue. Stereotyping is stereotyping. You can't paint people or actions with a wide brush. What one person or replican "gun-nut" might do is not a ticket to paint all republicans as "gun-nuts".

You stated that video games don't cause violence yet you have 2 guns in the background, you have just given them a perfect argument. download movies