Elmer Fudd is hanging up his hunting rifle.

“We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, executive producer of the new HBO Max series “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” told The New York Times in a May 29 article, which did not gain widespread notice until a trade report about it was published on Saturday. Browngardt, 40, a Sag Harbor native who attended Pierson Middle School there, added, “But we can do cartoony violence. TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”

In this latest iteration of the Warner Bros. theatrical cartoons that reached their creative peak in the 1940 and ’50s, neither put-upon hunter Elmer Fudd nor Old West cowpoke Yosemite Sam carry firearms. The same also was true of the 2011-14 Cartoon Network series “The Looney…