Season 2 Gives Elmer Fudd His Gun Back!

https://www.slashfilm.com/looney-tunes-cartoons-guns-back/

The lack of guns in the first season of Looney Tunes Cartoons was confirmed by executive producer Peter Browngardt not long after the first wave of animated shorts was released by HBO Max. Though he didn’t cite any specific motivation about the exclusion of guns for Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam, it was assumed that the social climate surrounding gun violence was likely an influence. As Browngardt said, “We’re not doing guns. But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”

It appears that Browngardt had a change of heart, because Comic Book Resources points out that the sixth episode of the second season, entitled “Rotund Rabbit,” features Bugs Bunny squaring off with Elmer Fudd again, but this time he’s carrying his trusty hunting rifle. In the cartoon, Elmer Fudd tries to blast Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is so fast that the cartoon bullet stops in the middle of its trajectory, sprouts a mouth and arms, and exasperatedly announces that he’s quitting the chase. The bullet then tosses on a hat and grabs a suitcase and leaves.