Everybody makes mistakes.

[Rugerlvr]

I was watching the special features for the movie "Shooter" with Mark Wahlberg, which a lot of you know is based on "Point of Impact" by Stephen Hunter.

So their gun technical adviser on the movie was a guy from Front Sight, Patrick Garrity. Anyway, at one point, he calls an M4 clearly chambered for 5.56, a "submachine gun."

I felt compelled to explain to my wife that "submachine" guns are chambered in pistol cartridges, and the M4, is in fact a carbine.

 

[fletcher]

Big movie gun mistakes always get a real lol out of me

Just saw the Batman movie this weekend, and what looked to be a subcompact Glock was called "carbon-fiber 28 caliber, made in china" Don't get me started on digitally remapping bullet fragments to obtain a fingerprint from the bullet (same movie, but I heard other people laughing when that scene happened, so It wasn't just me )

 

[Rugerlvr]

Oh! There's a new movie with Jason Statham in it coming out called "Death Race" and if you watch the trailer, you'll see Ian McShane refer to the miniguns mounted to the hood of a Dodge Charger as "30mm cannons for defense."

I had to say to my wife: "30mm my a$$." She's a saint. Somehow I don't think this would fit on the hood of a Dodge Charger:

 

[Cougfan2]

Rugerlvr, That photo is priceless. LMAO

 

[Mot45acp]

Thanks for my new desktop background.

 

[Jimmy Dean]

I want to see the bug after it was used for sighting that behemoth

 

[Cannonball888]

The Interpol detective in Lord of War picks up a 7.62 x 39mm round off the ground and asks Cage about the "submachine guns"

 

[TehK1w1]

fletcher, I cracked up over the bullet-fingerprint scene as well...

 

[Bartkowski]

Oh! There's a new movie with Jason Statham in it coming out called "Death Race" and if you watch the trailer, you'll see Ian McShane refer to the miniguns mounted to the hood of a Dodge Charger as "30mm cannons for defense."

I had to say to my wife: "30mm my a$$." She's a saint. Somehow I don't think this would fit on the hood of a Dodge Charger:

Yep, I noticed that too. The guns look no bigger than .50, if even that big.

 

[Rugerlvr]

Yep, I noticed that too. The guns look no bigger than .50, if even that big.

They're clearly 7.62mm mini-guns.

 

[DaleA]

Nice pictures Rugerlvr!

 

[MD_Willington]

7.62x39 has been referred to as a sub machine gun round. IIRC the Chinese T series Kalashnikovs are translated as sub machine gun.

 

[McKnife]

Oh! There's a new movie with Jason Statham in it coming out called "Death Race" and if you watch the trailer, you'll see Ian McShane refer to the miniguns mounted to the hood of a Dodge Charger as "30mm cannons for defense."

I had to say to my wife: "30mm my a$$." She's a saint. Somehow I don't think this would fit on the hood of a Dodge Charger:

I saw the same preview... and had the SAME reaction.

I was then kicked out of the house for an hour for cursing and yelling at the tv. It sucked.

 

[Jeff White]

Anyway, at one point, he calls an M4 clearly chambered for 5.56, a "submachine gun."

The Army type classified the M4's predecessor, the XM177 series as Submachine gun, 5.56mm XM177

But of course you are right, a submachine gun is normally defined as firing a pistol caliber round....But then again, the Army designated a 5.56mm assault rifle a submachine gun.

Jeff

 

[Rugerlvr]

I humbly submit the Army was wrong. It's still a Carbine.

 

[Rugerlvr]

Oh! There's a new movie with Jason Statham in it coming out called "Death Race" and if you watch the trailer, you'll see Ian McShane refer to the miniguns mounted to the hood of a Dodge Charger as "30mm cannons for defense."

Perhaps the line was supposed to read ".30 caliber cannons for defense." and McShane read it wrong, or perhaps I misheard.

 

[TX1911fan]

Not only was the digital remapping stupid, but the fingerprint was clearly all the way down the bullet, meaning he would have had to leave the fingerprint then seat the bullet in the case before shooting it.

 

[wizzegun]

You're all just mad about the Batman fingerprint bullet thing because Emily Proctor (the hot blonde from CSI Miami) didn't do it 1st! I mean anybody who can pick up a 7.62x39 shell casing, look at it and know it came from a "krink" can find a bullet fingerprint.

 

[PTK]

Yeah, the Death Race line should've been 30 caliber OR 7.62 mm.... whoopsie on that one.

 

[WoofersInc]

But of course you are right, a submachine gun is normally defined as firing a pistol caliber round....But then again, the Army designated a 5.56mm assault rifle a submachine gun.

So that's where Washington DC got the idea that semi-auto handguns are machineguns.