Looney Tunes Bans
Cartoon Guns, Wounds Fans

The sources are from four years ago.

Looney Tunes decision to remove guns from the cartoon characters Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam is not a bad idea. It is positive in ways which are the opposite of what was intended. In an interview, the new Looney Tunes executive producer, Peter Browngart, makes clear the removal of guns from the cartoons was an ideological decision. From the New York Times:

"We're not doing guns," Browngardt said. "But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in."

Yahoo published an article with Michael Ruocco, an animation artist who has been working on the new Looney Tunes. Michael opines about fan complaints on the removal of guns from the iconic characters. From uk.movies.yahoo.com:

Taking to Twitter, Michael Ruocco, who's worked on shows like Bojack Horseman, let fly: "Do you guys SERIOUSLY care whether or not Elmer Fudd has a gun in our shorts? You know how many gags we can do with guns? Fairly few. And the best were already done by the old guys. It's limiting. It was never about the gun, it was about Elmer's flawed, challenged masculinity. .....