I'm guessing it wasnt nearly as bad in person as the camera angle made it look, simply because if it was, editing that out would be been very very simple. The fact that they didn't see a need to edit that little clip out makes me think the angle made it look worse than it was.....I'd have gone ahead and edited it out anyway, myself.

But, bad camera angle or not, handing someone a gun barrel-first is a bad idea.