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Inversely, when guns that do fire bullets are stylized or drawn unrealistically. When a firearm looks and acts like a real firearm, even in aspects which make sense for bullets but not for lasers, but whose ordnance still looks or sounds like lasers.When most or all of the guns in a particular universe are energy-based or use Abnormal Ammo, regardless of the owner or the universe's particular technological level.When characters who would be expected to own guns — such as policemen — don't have them, or don't use them in cases which they would be expected to do so.In these cases, it will have large guns fire actual bullets, but still no realistic small arms. Larger, more destructive weapons like cannons and RPGs may still be seen in works using this trope, perhaps because they are less easy to obtain in real life. Note that this is usually limited to bullet-firing weapons. Usually when a real life tragedy involving people getting killed with guns happens, American media will often edit or redo anything in which gun violence is prevalent out of respect for the victims, sometimes by banning an episode that has gun violence and most times by editing it so the guns aren't realistic. The Distanced from Current Events trope.Conversely, when heavy property damage is called for in a short amount of time, it's more believable to have someone blast through a brick wall with a single "laser beam" than with a single bullet. It is easy to accept an action hero getting blasted away by an Energy Weapon and then jumping back to his feet, but if he got shot with a bullet, then we'd have to deal with the fact that he has a physical object lodged in his chest - or if the bullet were sufficiently powerful, that he has part of his chest lodged in a physical object behind him. Higher leeway on how much damage it deals and how it is portrayed.

Shooting someone with a bullet is an imitable act which might result in negative publicity, but a kid can't find his Dad's laser rifle and zapfry his buddy. Interestingly, the number of guns in private hands did not go down during that time period. note Despite restrictions on the availability of guns in America being loosened quite a lot since the 1970s, the proportion of the American population who actually own guns has dropped by over a third in that same period.