Saw it this evening. Done very respectfully, with music from folks like Brooks 'n Dunn. I'd never heard the bits about threats to his life from the Communists in the 1950s.
From what I've read he carried during that time.
The PBS show "The American Presidents" about Reagan covered that part of his life also.
The commies threatened to cut his face up, and he did carry for a time in order to protect his family.
I'm serious. I was tuning more into GAC than CMT lately--CMT for a while there was constantly playing Bon Jovi and John Mellencamp and Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt...I know I should just consider the music, but after a while all I saw, at least when I watched, were what I knew to be liberals who happened to try to appeal to the country music market.
Sorry for going off on a tangent, but CMT sometimes seems to be more sympathetic to the libs. And they plan the "Dukes of Hazzard" and those stupid reality shows too much. Just play some tunes.
Reagan started packing a pistol after getting the threatening phone calls
(anonymous, which is par for the course for union thugs or Communists)
As much as I hate to recommend something from PBS, they did a bang-up
(and fair) job with their American Experience installment on Reagan.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/
I think you can get a DVD copy via the "shop" button at the bottom of the page.