Now this means that the producer (Spielburg) is so offended by the sight of a gun in his work,even when it is historically accurate to the time, that he has to delete it...but more than that, he has to indulge in a kind of lie to make grumpy old Wepublicans like me think we saw a gun. PC Lie upon PC Lie!
kinda like how he's always got obi-wan always bashing "blasters" as un-civilized?
George Lucas, padwan.