History Series / SonsOfGuns

* InfantImmortality: Cruelly averted in the first episode of season 3 when a child dies in Joe's arms following a shooting on Halloween in New Orleans.

* DownerEnding: Season 4 ended with things looking pretty bleak for Red Jacket; the company in significant debt due to the [=SOCOM=] order falling through, Flem, Kris, and Stephanie going on to start their own businesses, and Joe seemingly packing up his stuff.

* NeverMyFault: Tom who seems to posess an almost uncanny inability to take responsibility for his own behavior. [[spoiler: especially when he ends up fired.]]

** In a recent episode, Will described Music/TedNugent as "semi prepared" after he had pulled out a glock, two spare magazines, and a PPK. Will then showed Ted a full-auto Glock 18

-->'''Kris''': I've been bamboozled!.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety - Averted with members of the Red Jacket team constantly stressing in opening bumpers that what they do is dangerous, despite the show making gunsmithing and the eventual results look cool. Also averted when various [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_malfunction#Mechanical_malfunctions mechanical malfunctions]], with jammed cartridges and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Failure_to_eject_%28FTE%29,_firearm.jpg "stovepipe"]] fires.
** Will had to literately reel in a new hire into basic gun safety after several incidents with Flem and a machine gun. The fact that he had to reteach someone who works with guns about gun safety disgusted him.

** Joe drives a baby-blue Ford Mustang.

** After having a drag race between Will's Harley and a Porsche Cayenne on a private road near the shop, will looks to the camera and tells the viewers that unless they happen to own the street they're racing on, not to do it at home.

** TheLancer: Vince

** Also HilariousInHindsight, since when explaining this, he says 'I am Red Jacket.' One of the first episode introes starts along the lines of "I'm Will Hayden. I am Red Jacket. This is my place."

* MrExposition: Will, Joe, or Charlie often plays this when laying out the details of the main build to the rest of the crew.

* ProductPlacement: A lot of the custom guns they build use Magpul accessories.

* WarriorsOfDesertWinds: One episode had Will and Joe travel to Jordan, the Jordanian military making several appearances.

* WarriorsOfTheDesertWinds: One episode had Will and Joe travel to Jordan, the Jordanian military making several appearances.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Will infamously claims that an AK "with the accuracy of a sniper rifle" has never been done before. There are, in fact, ''numerous'' variants of the AK series of rifles intended to be sniper rifes, including the SVD and PSL sniper rifles and the Iraqi Tobruk. Since the majority of Red Jacket's business is dealing in AK-pattern firearms (particularly Saigas) this is a rather shocking oversight.

* TechnoBabble: Joe goes into this a bit when explaining to Kris how to operate the C&C machine (a machine that precision-cuts parts out of blocks of metal). Most of it goes completely over Kris' head.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous:
-->'''Steph:''' Why exactly did you get this? (a $1500 grenade launcher)
-->'''Will:''' ''The sheer inability to continue life without it.''

** In a recent episode, Will described TedNugent as "semi prepared" after he had pulled out a glock, two spare magazines, and a PPK. Will then showed Ted a full-auto Glock 18

* ExtendedDisarming: Ted Nugent stopped by and displayed the fact that he was carrying at least 3 handguns. No knives were seen, but...

** TedNugent was bound to wind up on the show. He was given Red Jacket's prototype 1911 pistol as a gift.

-> "The earth can shake
->the sky falls down
->the mountains all
->fall to the ground
->but I will fear
->none of these things
->oh, shelter me lord
->underneath your wings"
-->"Shelter Me", theme song

* CrossOver: With Series/AmericanChopper, and later Series/MythBusters.

** One season three episode had the crew procure a revolver owned by ElvisPresley for Joe Perry from Music/{{Aerosmith}}.

* StuffBlowingUp: Possibly the biggest reality TV explosions this side of {{Mythbusters}}.

* CrossOver: With Series/AmericanChopper.