Editing Bowling for Columbine (section)

===Free gun for opening a bank account===
[[Image:Bowling4columbine.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Michael Moore upon receiving his free rifle at the bank.<ref name="cst">{{Cite web |last=Nol |first=Michael |date=January 28, 2001 |title=Banks Use Gifts to Target Depositors |url=http://www.overcast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/print/press/cst1.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524052946/https://www.webcitation.org/5YAIv8uxD?url=http://www.overcast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/print/press/cst1.htm |archive-date=2024-05-24 |website=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref>]]
An early scene depicts a bank in northern Michigan that gives customers a free hunting rifle when they make a deposit of a certain size into a [[time deposit]] account.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-01-26 |title=Bank's Deposit Gifts Gunning for Business |url=https://extras.denverpost.com/business/biz0126a.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814120622/https://extras.denverpost.com/business/biz0126a.htm |archive-date=2022-08-14 |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=[[The Denver Post]]}}</ref> The film follows Moore as he goes to the bank, makes his deposit, fills out the forms, and awaits the result of a background check before walking out of the bank carrying a brand new [[Weatherby]] hunting rifle. Just before leaving the bank, Moore asks: "Do you think it's a little dangerous handing out guns at a bank?"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bowling for Columbine : Media Clips - Michael at the Bank |url=http://bowlingforcolumbine.michaelmoore.com/media/clips/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110235715/http://bowlingforcolumbine.michaelmoore.com/media/clips/index.php |archive-date=January 10, 2010 |website=BowlingForColumbine.MichaelMoore.com}}</ref>

The ''[[Boston Review]]'' called this scene a fabrication,

{{blockquote|text=[T]he bank doesn't ordinarily hand over guns to customers. Moore's people arranged this exchange well in advance. The required paperwork and waiting time for gun ownership was done long before the scene was shot and as a favor to Moore the rifle had been delivered to the bank so Moore could pick it up there rather than going to the gun dealer as is ordinarily required. One Michigan bank does indeed reward a savings account with a gift certificate for a rifle...But nothing else in this scene, according to the bank official, has anything to do with reality.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Stone |first=Alan A. |date=2003-06-01 |title=Cheap Shots |url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/alan-stone-cheap-shots/ |access-date=2024-09-18 |magazine=[[Boston Review]]}}</ref>}}

Similarly, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' called the scene "staged".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fund |first=John |date=2003-03-21 |title=Unmoored from Reality |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122459994451554213 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008210039/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122459994451554213 |archive-date=2015-10-08 |access-date=2024-09-19 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref>