Swalwell Goes Hollywood to Advance Anti-Gun Agenda

California congressman Eric Swalwell is one of the most anti-2A politicians in D.C., and he’s not keeping his anti-gun activities confined to Washington, D.C.

According to reports, Swalwell is now getting into the entertainment industry by serving as a producer on a new movie called The Gun on Second Street that looks to be chock full of gun control propaganda. 

Described as “an allegory of the gun crisis in the United States”, the film follows two Pittsburgh police partners and best friends who are called to an uneventful domestic violence dispute on Second Street. When Officer TJ Meadows III accidentally kills his partner, Kevin Cooper, he is left traumatized. Years later, no longer a cop, he returns to Pittsburgh and falls for Kevin’s widow, Kacie, as they both confront their painful past.

This sounds awful, even without the film serving as a vehicle for anti-gun talking points. I mean, it’s a dramatic love story about a widow and the man who shot and killed her husband. Will the movie conclude with the happy couple launching a new career as gun control advocates?

As for the movie’s pitch, we don’t have a “gun crisis” in this country. In fact, though there are roughly 400 million guns in the United States, violent crime (including crimes where guns are used) is plummeting across the United States, and we could see the lowest homicide rate more than 60 years when the 2025 crime stats are released by the FBI. 

According to IMDB, this actually isn’t Swalwell’s first foray into producing. He’s also listed as a producer on the film Words of War, a biopic about Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya that was released to little fanfare back in May and earned a whopping $574 (not a typo) worldwide according to Box Office Mojo. 

Sean Penn served as executive producer on Words of War, and he’s teaming up with Swalwell once again for The Gun on Second Street. The pair’s first feature was a flop, but I wouldn’t be surprised to se gun control groups promote their upcoming film when (or if) it’s released. The fact that Swalwell is also running for governor in California may also generate some extra buzz for the movie, but I’m skeptical that either of those factors will help make the film a financial success. 

The gun control lobby, especially Brady, has worked hard to get Hollywood to make more explicitly anti-gun movies, but haven’t had much luck. In 2016 Jessica Chastain starred in a flick called Miss Sloane, where she played a lobbyist working to enact a universal background check bill. The feature generated a lot of buzz among gun control fans, but that didn’t translate to box office success. Miss Sloane cost a relatively modest $13.7 million to make, but it only took in $9 million worldwide. 

I doubt The Gun on Second Street will fare much better if it ever hits the big screen. Most moviegoers aren’t looking for a heavyhanded movie with a message. They want escapism. Given the description of The Gun on Second Street as an “allegory of the gun crisis in the United States,” it sounds like this is one of films that puts politics ahead of the plot, and that’ll be a hard pass for most movie watchers… just like Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign will be a hard pass for most Californians. 

Editor’s Note: Anti-gun Democrats like Eric Swalwell aren’t just trying to change gun laws. They’re trying to denormalize gun ownership itself. 

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