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However you feel about guns - key to the patriot's defense of liberty, weakling's Freudian crutch or morally neutral appliance - the entertaining and thought-provoking drama "Bill's Gun Shop" will make you stop, sweat and reconsider.
First-time director Dean Lincoln Hyers based his original script for the film, premiering Saturday at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, on a personal gun experience.
"When I was in my 20s, I found myself living in a neighborhood that was going downhill," Hyers said. A nearby drug dealer in his old neighborhood "attracted an onslaught of shady characters." After a summer of power struggles on the street, "I went out of...
