Gun Related STUPID Movie Mistakes

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All miniguns are 7.62mm. That's why it's called a minigun: the 7.62mm round is quite small compared to the 25mm or 30mm rotary aircraft cannons.

I think Shadow meant that the brass were clearly blanks, although I never noticed that. I'll have to look closer next time.

In The Terminator, Arnie blinks very noticeably when shooting that .45. You'd think a terminator wouldn't...
 
I have been shooting for a long time and I never have seen sparks from my rounds as they hit something.In movies that seems to be the norm.
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Not to be a jerk, but more to share a really cool story,

I was shooting my m44 with a 2-7x pistol scope on it at dusk, just to admire the fireball and plink at some cans with what was left of the day. I was shooting at an old steel can hanging on a string when a friend said, "hey, do that again!!" On closer examination, you could see a shower of sparks from the can every time a round passed through it.
Really neat. Not the huge sparky explosion from wood that you get in the movies though.
 
Well, what about the GOOD movies????? Can someone name some movies that accurately portray guns?

What about "Shooter"? The newer one about the ex Marine sniper that gets set up?
 
U.S. soldiers pulling the bolt back after every shot with an M1. (Because the blanks won't cycle the action?)
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If this was during the same show on the Battle of the Bulge, it's actually correct to show the M1 having to be hand cycled. The grease in use at the time for US small arms wasn't up to the cold during the battle of the bulge and rifles were know to freeze. Peeing on them worked to free them up. And they generally worked once heated up by repeated firing... but until you got it nice and toasty and engagement could be... Interesting.
 
In the movie Super Troopers, when the cops are in the trailor and the pig starts making all the noise, the local police chief pulls out a bb gun as he's talking. You can see the slim frame and the flared out handles for cocking on the back of the slide.:scrutiny:
 
I love it when you hear click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click on every stinking semi auto on the planet.

When someone gets shot with a 9mm and it throws them threw a window about 3 foot behind them then another 4 foot passed the window. When every one knows that only a 45acp can do that.

Oh and when they are cranking off rounds with a 50 cal desert eagle and there is absolutly no recoil except for the slide moving.

I love all the Leupold sniper scopes with 4 adjustment knobs one of which changes the reticles. Or the best 80's blooper a sniper scope with not a single aiming point in it.

the one thing I hate to see is people throwing guns on the ground and kicking them across concrete floors. Makes me die a little in side every time I see a 1911 get kicked across the rough floor.
 
In the movie "War" they are describing a real evil hit man, and shot him loading what looks like silver tipped, all black 17 HMR into his pistol (Springfield or Glock I believe).

Definitely watch the movie, I got yelled at quite a lot by my friend for pointing out all the things that were wrong.
 
pistol safeties, revolvers, slides, etc...

I've posted a few on this site before over the years, but here goes a few "classics"...

Scenes where actors point pistols are other people with the safety on, :scrutiny:.
Scenes that show a actor holding an unloaded revolver that somehow fires later on, :rolleyes:. For safety reasons I could see a prop dept unloading it but for close-ups, you can clearly see into the cylinder, :mad:.
Film/TV scenes where actors "rack" slides to load a pistol. Once is enough dumb #$&! :cuss: A recent movie I saw had a guy load his pistol 3 seperate times, :banghead:, once in the car, then as he walked into a house, then again when he took cover, ***???
If you see the Keanu Reeves/James Spader stinker; The Watcher, towards the end, Spader's FBI agent points a Glock pistol at bad guy Reeves that looks like a prop/.22LR. The muzzle of the Glock is like an airgun. That is just careless, poor directing IMO,:rolleyes:.

In Kiss the Girls, the bad guy(a police detective) calls Morgan Freeman's nickeled SIG P-226 a Glock, even though the bright nickel SIG pistol says SIG-Sauer P-226 right on the slide! :mad:
 
Not exactly a movie mistake but I was watching episode of "Ironside" on retrovision the other day where he was holding a 1911 in his hand and calling it a revolver.
 
Not exactly a gun---but has anybody seen the new Indiana Jones movie? There's a scene where Indy is in an old 6x6, and fires an RPG from inside the cab of the truck to knock out another vehicle. In real life, the concussion and back blast would make you instantly regret that you ever did that!! :what:
 
You mean the firefight where the FBI agents are returning fire at the girl with the Barrett in the building 500 yards away with pistols and shotguns?
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dont forget in smokin aces where the one main FBI agent fires 4 or so shots from his USP ,shows the slide locked back and he reloads. he does this this 3 or 4 times :p
 
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Not exactly a movie mistake but I was watching episode of "Ironside" on retrovision the other day where he was holding a 1911 in his hand and calling it a revolver.
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Nooooooooo.....not my own favorite '70s TV detective!!:uhoh: Geeesh....what a dumb mistake ... and IIRC he would grille the #### out of any of his staff who made an error .....:scrutiny::rolleyes::uhoh:
 
There's a scene where Indy is in an old 6x6, and fires an RPG from inside the cab of the truck to knock out another vehicle. In real life, the concussion and back blast would make you instantly regret that you ever did that!!
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The "cab" wasn't enclosed, and the back blast would have just gone out of the back of the truck(only upper body was in the cab). I doubt it would have been fun to do, but it didn't seem that bad.
 
decock a 1911

colt double eagle.......and i have no idea why they are selling at a premium lately
 
In Delta Force with Chuck Norris. During a shootout, someone runs right in front of friendly automatic weapon fire.
 
What about "Shooter"? The newer one about the ex Marine sniper that gets set up?
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Read the whole thread before posting, Shooter has been mentioned several times.

And during target practice when the holes in the paper targets blow out toward the shooter. With a ragged hole, not round.
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The ragged hole pointing in the wrong direction is caused by taping squibs to the back of the target and detonating them during the shoot.
 
I have a gun related SMART movie mistake ( except it was T.V.)

On lasts nights episode of Magnum (retrovision) . Magnum & T.C. are about to enter a building , armed of course, and you can see Magnum has his finger on the trigger of his Auto.

I'm sure this wasn't in the script but I could see the look on Tom Sellecks face when he realized that he was breaking one of the 4 rules, he pulled his finger off that trigger like it was hot.
 
I just watched a movie the other night and had to crack up laughing.

The bad guy - who walked into the building with a sawed-off Rem. 870 shotgun - is shown crouching behind some protection, getting ready to pop up and do some serious shooting. The camera closes in on his hands and the shotgun........... it had miraculasly turned into a shotgun with a hammer and the close-up shows him cocking the gun in slow motion with a very audible "click-click"! When he stood up, the shotgun returned to the original 870!

I supposed the scene had been shot and reviewed when some idiot said, "Ya know, wouldn't it add effect if we showed some deliberate action so people KNOW he's about to take on the good guys?"


Unbelievable !!
 
I supposed the scene had been shot and reviewed when some idiot said, "Ya know, wouldn't it add effect if we showed some deliberate action so people KNOW he's about to take on the good guys?"
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That irritates me to no end. I love the movie Man on Fire but when Creasy clocks his glock his drives me insane.

Just a sound effect, to be more dramatic. And I hate it.
 
No one has mentioned my pet peeve, and this has happened in more movies than I can count....

Character armed with a pump shotgun, and is either drawn down on someone, or in a situation where he might need to shoot any second... AND DOESN'T HAVE A ROUND IN THE CHAMBER! Has to pump the damn thing before he/she can fire it. WTH are they thinking? My family gets tired of me pointing this out in different movies.

Personally, the last thing I do before I fire a pump shotgun at something is take it off safety, but I have never seen that in a movie - no, they always have to pump a round in - like they were in this life or death situation with an unloaded gun up to that point...
 
I've seen movies where the guy pumps the shotgun, never takes a shot and then pumps it again in a tense situation. No shell (loaded or casing) comes out of the gun! It must be totally empty. :eek: No - wait - now he fires and it wasn't empty! Go figure. Many of you THR'rs are more fluent in shotgun-ese than I so someone please tell me which brand/model of shotgun takes two pumps to get a round chambered. :confused:
 
My other pet peeve is that in movies, no bullet ever passes through a human body that is is being used as a shield. Like... you can hide behind another person and not get hit with rounds from an AR15.

Car doors too.... 55 gallon drums... wooden doors... sheetrock... Basically anything a good guy hides behind is bulletproof.
 
Running Scared has the pump shotty mistakes

The "cops" at the beginning rack the slide on their shotguns multiple times, 8 I think, before missing with every shot during a shootout at distances of less than 10 feet - http://fateoflegions.blogspot.com/2008/04/movie-guns-v.html - Also notice the first guy shot is hit at muzzle contact with a shotgun and flies back into the wall. How cheesy!

In the movie SWAT, one of the cops who is firing a Kimber 1911 on the range has a stovepipe but he keeps pressing the trigger and "firing" the gun. It can be seen clearly - http://fateoflegions.blogspot.com/2008/07/movie-guns-xiv.html
 
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