{"id":17573,"date":"2013-01-14T11:32:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=17573"},"modified":"2024-01-17T06:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T12:22:11","slug":"the-new-nra-shooting-game-is-rated-ages-4-says-apple-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2013\/01\/the-new-nra-shooting-game-is-rated-ages-4-says-apple-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"The new NRA shooting game is rated ages 4+ says Apple App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Would you let your 4-year-old play?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Got an iOS device? Like guns? Have a four-year-old? If the answer to all three was yes, then Apple thinks you should totally let them have at the National Rifle Association’s newest game – NRA: Practice Range. According to a report in FastCompany<\/em>, Apple’s dubious decisions by the gatekeepers of its wall garden have found “no objectionable material” in the NRA’s iOS game and rated it 4+<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new app allows your pre-kindergartner to try their hands at shooting “nine true-to-life firearms” and “stay informed” about the goings on at the NRA. It’s a bit a ironic that Apple, a company that has championed itself as keeper of corporate decency (see their stance on porn in their digital content stores), does not find a shooting game that contains true-to-life depictions of firearms to contain and objectionable material yet Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy<\/a><\/em>, an iOS arcade style “flight simulator,” is rated 12+ for mild simulated gambling, mild cartoon or fantasy violence and infrequent\/mild realistic violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the weeks following yet another mass shooting by someone who had easier access to guns than mental health care; it seems crass, insensitive, and just plain dick-ish for the NRA who defended the right to arm yourself with 30-round banana clips by blaming the recent rash of mass shootings on video games, to put out a video game that’s essentially a shooting sim. In either case, we hope someone at the iTunes realizes that maybe a game centered around a depiction of life-like violence should warrant an age restriction warning higher than ‘4+’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: FastCompany<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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