In all seriousness, though, thanks for your comment.  I realize that an emphasis on verisimilitude is almost never the first priority for movies and television.  It wouldn’t be much fun to watch if all they showed was real life.  That said, I appreciate your previous efforts and consider you a brother-in-arms in the fight against grossly inaccurate entertainment outlets.  If nothing else, you’ve gained a new reader for your blog from this exchange!

Also, I host an event called Writers’ Police Academy. The WPA is a hands-on event for writers and anyone else who’s interested in learning about police work and investigation. The WPA is held at a real police academy and the workshops are all taught by actual police academy instructors and other police experts from across the country.

So you see, I do all this and I still see TV cops racking rounds into their 9mm’s. And I still read about smelling cordite in books written by bestselling authors.

But, I haven’t given up hope that someday TV writers, showrunners, and authors will learn that fiction should be believable, yes, but not absurd

I’ve been very busy but meaning to get back to this and post an update. I think it’s pretty clear that Disney is issuing blanket claims and Zazzle is simply rubber-stamping them.

I suspect it’s not just Disney, too. There’s probably an interesting class-action suit in this for some attorney inclined toward such matters.