CSI MIAMI and old ammunition

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"*** are you guys talking about, a Ruger is a rare gun used by the Germans in WW2 and ammo, unless stored in a police or army locker, can GO OFF... just like that. I know people who died after that happened and they told me about it." -- mbt2001

You are a mess!!! :D:D:D



"Need I point you any further than the episode with the bullets that caused someone to be vaporized?" -- MikePGS

I saw that one!!! It was science-fiction meets stupid.
 
in one episode horatios partner (who died from never cleaning his gun and having it jam) had his service weapon.....a .41mag baby eagle. like any pd would approve that
 
actually ONE episode started with calleigh i think saying something.....its the one where horatio was pretending to be dead to maintain cover. but yeah justice shades and hands on hips and one liners....
 
isnt .357 mag and .44mag a revolver cartidge? deegles are kind of stupid guns. btw how do you put in quotes
 
OK you smug experts of all things theatrical.

Once they got it right - actually might have been the original CSI, where someone had scorched their hand from barrel / cylinder gap flash.

If more people watched and believed, we'd have fewer unmeritorious lawsuits, enh?
:D
 
isnt .357 mag and .44mag a revolver cartidge? deegles are kind of stupid guns. btw how do you put in quotes
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True, I guess it's BS all around.

[quote ]put what you want to quote here, remove the space in the first bracket to let it work[/quote]
 
This is why I love Burn Notice. On one episode the hero was asking an arms dealer about a Dragunov. The dealer said they were hard to get and tried to interest him in a nice PSL.
 
in the original csi wasnt there a episode where the bg had an extended mag full auto 1911?
 
Isn't .41 Magnum a revolver cartridge?
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yes it is, but for a brief period IMI (the makers of desert and baby eagles) made a cartridge called the .41AE (action express). It was for a gun called the 941 jericho (basically the same as a baby eagle) that could shoot the .41AE or a 9mm cartridge (you swapped the barrels i believe). In spite of the claims that the .41AE was similar in power to the .41 magnum, i don't really think it caught on much at all, and as a matter of fact ammo is mostly reloaded these days. So maybe it was a reference to this (probably not though) but even then, it would be dumb since ammo is such a pain in the... to find.
 
The people who make these shows don't make use of expert advice even if it is given free. They provide exciting content for the lay person and will employ dramatic license to do so.
I have seen it first hand, after supplying a gunshot-related prop to the BBC for a TV show. They gave me the script and I produced the prop. However the item didn't look exciting enough and they made alterations afterwards, which put the item firmly in the category of 'implausible' to anyone in the know.
The trouble is, most of the viewers of that show are not in the know.

Some professionals get all outraged about things like this, but you have to understand THIS IS FICTION!!!
On a similar medical drama TV show, there was a scene where a distraught young patient had to have a CT scan, and in the show they had a nurse accompany the patient on the CT table for reassurance during the scan. Now this would never happen in real life because the nurse would get irradiated along with the patient. After this episode aired on BBC, some radiographers wrote into their relevant professional publications expressing outrage that this had been portrayed because it was likely to create a misleading precedent where patients would now think they had the right to have a staff member accompany them into the doughnut.
Well clearly this is bollocks.
My advice to these people was that there is no more validity in getting procedural information about radiography from a BBC medical drama then there is validity in understanding how nuclear power plants are run, by watching The Simpsons.

Know what I mean?
 
The stupidest show on television.

Some professionals get all outraged about things like this, but you have to understand THIS IS FICTION!!!
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Unfortunately, most of the people that watch it, don't know this and believe it is real. Ask any trial attorney.
 
I have noticed that "The Unit" is pretty good about firearms knowledge (considering it is a fictional show). They never really discuss guns much, which is where "CSI Miami" usually goes astray. "The Unit" does tend to use firearms that are appropriate for the occasion. The Seargent Major, an older gentleman, carries a 1911 while the younger guys carry Sigs. They all take M4's into the field. They even use a Ruger compressed .22 for covert assasinations.

But they still make the universal mistake of having a compressed .45 sound like a mouse fart.:rolleyes:
 
in the unit jonas has used a sig too. the kimber is just way cooler. love that show. Although one episode they put a scope on the ruger for long shooting and then even used it in an assault.....?..?
 
I am a Criminal Justice student looking to graduate with my BS in the coming Summer...hopefully. It baffles the living hell out of me how many CJ students often refer to CSI as a point of reference to argue with a professor. Unfortunately at times like that, the filter between my brain and mouth fails and the words "Are you f***ing kidding me..." fly out of my face.:banghead: Then to excuse their stupid stance on the subject, they say as an afterthought that they know that it's just tv. It scares the hell outta of me to know that these people are going to be in charge of something important one day.
 
They even use a Ruger compressed .22 for covert assasinations.

But they still make the universal mistake of having a compressed .45 sound like a mouse fart.
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The word is "suppressed", which is "to reduce" not compressed which is "to squash".
 
yes it is, but for a brief period IMI (the makers of desert and baby eagles) made a cartridge called the .41AE (action express). It was for a gun called the 941 jericho (basically the same as a baby eagle) that could shoot the .41AE or a 9mm cartridge (you swapped the barrels i believe). In spite of the claims that the .41AE was similar in power to the .41 magnum, i don't really think it caught on much at all, and as a matter of fact ammo is mostly reloaded these days. So maybe it was a reference to this (probably not though) but even then, it would be dumb since ammo is such a pain in the... to find.
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Ah, thanks!
 
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