# Michael Moore is a Dishonest Hack **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915 "2010-06-04T13:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 73
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915/73 "2010-06-04T17:00:01Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > No. I don’t think he faked the footage. I think it happened exactly as was portrayed on camera. But I think he omitted things (noted in a previous post) that made it look like he walked in, opened an account, and walked out with a rifle without undergoing any checks. Where’s his copy of the 4473, for instance? What, no case for a new firearm? I believe those parts were staged for his purposes. But the purchase wasn’t. But my question upon watching that scene wasn’t one of wondering whether he’d gone through the proper checks. I assumed that he had and that the bank had followed the letter of the law. Banks are pretty anal about that kind of stuff. It was “why is a bank giving its customers guns?” What would showing him filing out the forms you indicate (which I’m not even familiar with and wouldn’t recognize) have done to change the point he was making in that scene? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-moore-is-a-dishonest-hack/541915)._