In order to avoid having to take reponsibility for gun deaths the NRA has attempted to lay the blame on video games. However as it turns out, in some cases, they are actually working together.

Courtesy of the New York Times:  

As Electronic Arts prepared to market Medal of Honor Warfighter, the latest version of its top-selling video game released in October, it created a Web site that promoted the manufacturers of the guns, knives and combat-style gear depicted in the game. 

Among the video game giant’s marketing partners on the Web site were the McMillan Group, the maker of a high-powered sniper’s rifle, and Magpul, which sells high-capacity magazines and other accessories for assault-style weapons. 

Links on the Medal of Honor site allowed visitors to click through on the Web sites of the game’s partners and peruse their catalogs. 

“It was almost like a virtual showroom for guns,” said Ryan Smith, who contributes to the Gameological Society, an online gaming magazine. After Mr. Smith and other gaming enthusiasts criticized the site, Electronic Arts disabled the links, saying it had been unaware of them. 

The video game industry was drawn into the national debate about gun violence last week when the National Rifle Association accused producers of violent games and movies of helping to incite the type of mass shooting that recently left 20 children and six adults dead at a school in Newtown, Conn. 

While studies have found no connection between video games and gun violence, the case of Medal of Honor Warfighter illustrates how the firearms and video game industries have quietly forged a mutually beneficial marketing relationship. 

Many of the same producers of firearms and related equipment are also financial backers of the N.R.A. McMillan, for example, is a corporate donor to the group, and Magpul recently joined forces with it in a product giveaway featured on Facebook. The gun group also lists Glock, Browning and Remington as corporate sponsors.

I stand by my earlier statement that the violence in the majority of video games probably has a negligible affect on gun violence in this country. But a video game that uses real world weapons and then links to where you can buy them online?

Well THAT is an entirely different issue altogether.

Take a look at this video to see how blatantly the video game and gun manufacturers have been working together.

Well that is certainly quite troubling.