>>106711196I just seem to remember hearing it took a lot of work for the crew of BTAS to get guns in the show that didn't just shoot G.I. Joe style lasers beams.
Also, Bruce Timm made a comment on the Heart of Ice commentary about how Mr. Freeze pointing his gun directly at the viewer was not something that usually gets passed by the censors.
I think special interest groups at that time would have been more concerned about lil' timmy playing with his daddy's shotgun, trying to shoot the cat and blowing his own head off, than whether or not he went on a murder spree.