Kris Ford, 31, was booked on a count of cruelty to juveniles, while his wife, Stephanie Hayden Ford, 29, faces a count of being a principal to cruelty to juveniles, according to Livingston Parish jail records available online. The allegations were levied by William Scott, who has a 9-year-old son with Stephanie Ford. The boy was interviewed and told authorities Kris Ford struck him with a belt that was possibly leather while his mother was in the room. It is not the first time the gun-dealing family has run afoul of the law in cases involving the mistreatment of children.
The untold truth of Sons of Guns
The untold truth of Sons of Guns
Sons of Guns is a reality television series that aired on the Discovery Channel [1] between and The series centers on Red Jacket Firearms LLC, a Louisiana-based business that manufactures and sells custom firearms to law enforcement, security firms, and private collectors. Will Hayden was the founder and owner of the shop, while his daughter and business partner Stephanie managed the office. As on the Discovery Channel series MythBusters , this show practices a degree of self-censorship and safety-consciousness.
Stephanie Hayden Ford took a seat on Dr. She alluded to their entangled lives in her interview with Phil McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, while also detailing various allegations against her father.
It was a story of American triumph—but by the end, it uncovered a legacy of tragedy. Sons of Guns , the Discovery Channel series that ran from from , centered on a gun store and workshop in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and its family staff. For three years and 65 episodes, it was a ratings dynamo, drawing celebrity drop-ins and giving its cast an international platform as spokespeople and mascots of American gun culture, gaining fans and critics both for their unapologetic embrace of excess and their enjoyment of the Second Amendment. But the success of the series masked disturbing truths behind the scenes, and it all came crashing down in with the show's sudden cancellation following the arrest of Will Hayden, the center of the show and the owner of Red Jacket Firearms. How did this show rise so quickly and fall so far, and what are the cast members doing now?