Lock N' Load: Season 1

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SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: October 21, 2009

Summary: The reality show uses hidden cameras to capture the reasons behind customers' purchases at actor Josh T. Ryan's family-owned gun shop.

Genre(s): Reality, News

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. License to Conceal
Air Date: November 25, 2009
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S1:E5. Robbed
Air Date: November 18, 2009
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S1:E4. Don't Shoot for Me Argentina
Air Date: November 11, 2009

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Kate Ward

NRA enthusiasts might be the target audience for this reality show about a Colorado gun shop, but Lock manages to have mainstream appeal, thanks to its focus on the store's quirky customers (a shank-holding old lady, a gun-loving pastor, etc.). Read full review

Joanna Weiss

Lock ’n Load treats Wayne and many fellow customers as curiosities, and occasionally smacks of condescension. (The “Amazing Grace’’ sequence, in particular, crosses a line.) But the series also takes pains to avoid making judgments, and offers a parade of gun owners so vast that we end up with a broad view. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Watching Logan hand small children assault rifles for inspection will no doubt amuse gun nuts and enrage anti-gun nuts. And both camps are likely to blink at one of the (surprisingly numerous) female customers who--jokingly asked if she's carrying a weapon--whips out three concealed knives. Read full review

Troy Patterson

Though the seeming intent of Lock 'N Load is to glorify firearms--in one scene, a pastor takes target practice to the tune of "Amazing Grace"--it's sometimes tough to tell which consumers are motivated by valid concerns and which are unreasonable fruitcakes. Consequently, the show is something an ink-blot test. Read full review

David Hinckley

Ultimately, though, the stories here are too brief and, frankly, too ordinary to sustain the viewer's interest for very long. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Given the edginess generally associated with pay TV's forays into reality--focusing on things like whorehouses and bail bondsmen--this is a surprisingly toothless affair, as if Showtime bought a concept, wound up with nothing to show for it and figured what the hell, let's take a shot, as it were, by airing the episodes. Read full review

Linda Stasi

The truly terrible, Lock 'N Load, a six-parter debuting tonight on Showtime, is possibly the worst-taste reality series since "The Littlest Groom"--and it took some serious doing on the part of Showtime to manage that. Read full review

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Oct 28, 2009

my son and i love the show. josh is a great salesperson. i point out how comfortable he make people feel. my son learns how to deal with people and make them feel important. the guns are secondary. how can i email josh?