Not surprisingly, NRA's Practice Range app for iOS managed to stir up a great deal of controversy since it's release, just two short days ago. One primary point of contention was the suggested age, which was 4+.
But according to Kotaku, political pressure forced Apple to re-adjust the age; it is now listed as being appropriate for ages 12 years old and older. It now also lists a "Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence" tag, which was not present before.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was one of its most ardent critics, who had this to say:
"It is the height of hypocrisy. If you remember the head of the NRA’s speech on television, he blamed violent children’s games for causing things like the terrible tragedy in Connecticut.
One month and one day or maybe one month to the day, the NRA comes up with its own violent app. I don’t know what else to say. I don’t know how to describe it. The PR, the stupidity of doing it, is just mind-boggling."
Meanwhile, New York State Senator Charles Schumer called upon Apple to raise the game's rating, to 17 and up"
"Apple did the right thing by acknowledging that this game isn’t for young children, but should go farther and make the restrictions as tight as possible… The NRA has acted in an unbelievably hypocritical fashion by blaming the nation’s gun violence on video games and movies, then coming out with a game for children featuring assault weapons. Apple should not facilitate children using it."
