Bazooka Joe71
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again...ANYTHING where Will Smith has a gun.
Worst Book/Tv/Movie Gun Error?
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ken grant
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One of W.E.B. Griffin books based on the Army. Green Bennies were in the Congo.
Two guys on top of a Power Plant with Sniper Rifles. They were 1903-A4's with scopes and they were loading them with stripper clips.
Two guys on top of a Power Plant with Sniper Rifles. They were 1903-A4's with scopes and they were loading them with stripper clips.
M1 Shooter
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I once caught a scene from a movie while channel surfing where it showed a close up of a revolver firing in slow motion, and it was ejecting spent casings like an auto! I couldn't believe what I was seeing! I have no idea how they got a revolver to do that, and can't understand why they would set it up to do that when its obvious from looking at a revolver that they don't automatically eject empties when firing. I don't know what the movie was called, any one else see this? I think it had Matthew Modine in it.
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2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
Schlink-schlunk
Well, this one isn't what is meant, but every time someone hauls out a double-barreled shotgun on "The Simpsons" and cocks it like a pump (schlink-schlunk), I laugh like h3ll.
I know it's a "set bit" and I'm positive the writers know what they're doing, but still... I laugh like h3ll.
Mainly at the viewers who would not get the "bit."
And now, back to real goofups due to honest-to-Gawd ignorance.
Well, this one isn't what is meant, but every time someone hauls out a double-barreled shotgun on "The Simpsons" and cocks it like a pump (schlink-schlunk), I laugh like h3ll.
I know it's a "set bit" and I'm positive the writers know what they're doing, but still... I laugh like h3ll.
Mainly at the viewers who would not get the "bit."
And now, back to real goofups due to honest-to-Gawd ignorance.
Cosmoline
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Oh, there was one "Boyz & the Hood" ripoff gangsta movie I saw part of. The scene involved whacking a guy with a 1911. The shooter was shown FAN FIRING IT like an old SAA!! Complete with big booming sound effects. I would pay good money to see the actor try that at the range. Though I'd want to be behind something bulletproof.
That's actually a real revolver. It was designed by Factice Fusillez (FF), a Belgian outfit in the late 19th cnt. They issued some during WWI IIRC
That's actually a real revolver. It was designed by Factice Fusillez (FF), a Belgian outfit in the late 19th cnt. They issued some during WWI IIRC
Everytime a so called elite counter terrorism cop or something similar gets out of the car/helicopter..chases down the bad guy in a foot chase..catches said bad guy and then racks the slide on his pistol as he aims the gun at him for the obligatory talking to the bad guy scene. So..the whole time he was chasing the guy with an uncharged weapon??!!
Every time I see a movie with guns that rattle much like a maraca every time it moves, I crack up. If my guns rattled as much as the movie guns, I'd be afraid to frethem.
Lead and copper bullets shooting sparks when they hit something makes me giggle too.
People getting shot and flying through the air as if hit by a speeding truck is always good for a laugh.
Lead and copper bullets shooting sparks when they hit something makes me giggle too.
People getting shot and flying through the air as if hit by a speeding truck is always good for a laugh.
I've seen several movies where a guy is running after somebody with a pump shotgun and he stops at the corner of a building and pumps a shell into the chamber. So what was he doing before that , chasing a guy with an unloaded gun ? Have even seen a few where the guy pumps it a couple of times during the chase without shooting it. Same thing in westerns with a lever action.
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Lee Child series of books, the main character, Reacher, finds a Desert Eagle that a previous detective had purchased as his private weapon. Reacher runs around with it tucked in his pants all day and all night long. The bad guys use Ithica 10 guage shotguns, that if pointed in your general direcion, will kill anything and everything in a 200 yard swath...so you got to sneak up on em from behind. Then don't take the 10 guage for youself, stick with the desert eagle.
Also, just so you know, when the us military was reviewing the glock and the berretta as replacements for the 1911, Reacher was in the hospitol from the Beruit bombing...so to keep him busy, they allowed him to review the weapons and pick which one was best. He liked the glock, it was light, but chose the beretta because the longer barrel made it more powerful. LOL
Lee Child series of books, the main character, Reacher, finds a Desert Eagle that a previous detective had purchased as his private weapon. Reacher runs around with it tucked in his pants all day and all night long. The bad guys use Ithica 10 guage shotguns, that if pointed in your general direcion, will kill anything and everything in a 200 yard swath...so you got to sneak up on em from behind. Then don't take the 10 guage for youself, stick with the desert eagle.
Also, just so you know, when the us military was reviewing the glock and the berretta as replacements for the 1911, Reacher was in the hospitol from the Beruit bombing...so to keep him busy, they allowed him to review the weapons and pick which one was best. He liked the glock, it was light, but chose the beretta because the longer barrel made it more powerful. LOL
Stevie-Ray
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One of my favorites is from 48 Hrs. When Albert Ganz takes Jack Cates' .44 mag revolver and says, "Nice gun," he proceeds to fire the weapon 8 times.
There are a lot of them out there but this one is very basic.
There are a lot of them out there but this one is very basic.
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Chuck Norris needs no reload
My favorite is from one of the Delta Force movies where chucks character is clearing a building with an m-16 with 203 launcher. someone is hiding behind the wall on the other side of the door and he spins and fires two quick shots from the 203 at like 10 feet to blow 2 holes in the wall and get the bad guy. I suppose the fact that it is a single shot launcher is the least of the problems with that tactic.
Mark
My favorite is from one of the Delta Force movies where chucks character is clearing a building with an m-16 with 203 launcher. someone is hiding behind the wall on the other side of the door and he spins and fires two quick shots from the 203 at like 10 feet to blow 2 holes in the wall and get the bad guy. I suppose the fact that it is a single shot launcher is the least of the problems with that tactic.
Mark
Sunray
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Read some of the Mack Bolan/Stony Farm books. They use a Harrier and an SR-71 as troop transports.
"...on "The Simpsons"..." Bugs Bunny used to say that you could do anything in an animated cartoon. It's the same for live action movies.
"...on "The Simpsons"..." Bugs Bunny used to say that you could do anything in an animated cartoon. It's the same for live action movies.
Stevie-Ray
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It's Chuck Norris. 203's are afraid to fire only once.
M1 Shooter
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Cosmoline, do you have any more info or a picture of the revolver? I tried a search, but couldn't find anything about such a revolver. Do you know the movie I'm talking about? The revolver in the movie looked like a typical S&W revolver to me, but it was quite awhile ago that I saw it, so I could just be remembering wrong.
Cougfan2
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It's Chuck Norris. 203's are afraid to fire only once.
Darned Straight!!! Ghosts exist because Chuck Norris kills people faster than Hell can process them!
Darned Straight!!! Ghosts exist because Chuck Norris kills people faster than Hell can process them!
Well-Armed Lamb
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The BBC show TORCHWOOD, a spin-off of Doctor Who, is about a team of highly-sexed folks who go around fighting aliens and monsters. In one episode, "Countrycide," they head out to a country village and wind up in all manner of trouble fighting the proverbial Mutant Zombie Bikers. The final battle of that episode comes down to guns, and team leader Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) comes out shooting with a pump-action shotgun, caliber unknown. The shot goes to slow-mo as he pumps and fires; we get close-ups of spent shotgun shells spinning to the floor. Then he runs out of ammo, draws his .455 Webley (points for style!), and finishes the baddies with that. The battle ends... and then, another slow-mo shot of a spent shotgun shell hitting the floor, despite the fact that he fired the shotgun dry ages ago. Must be *real* fast with that Webley...
(Also, one team member is hit in the abdomen by a shotgun at a range of about four yards, and is limping around by the end of the episode.)
The *best* gunfight I've ever seen on TV was on an episode of THE WIRE, the brilliant HBO crime drama. I have to watch it again and maybe capture that sequence, because it's really great. Omar, a masterful rip-and-run artist (he makes a living robbing drug dealers), assembles a team to take down a crackhouse, and it doesn't exactly go off as planned. It is not a pretty gunfight, but it's visceral and utterly believable, especially in showing the ways a gunfight can go wrong.
(Also, one team member is hit in the abdomen by a shotgun at a range of about four yards, and is limping around by the end of the episode.)
The *best* gunfight I've ever seen on TV was on an episode of THE WIRE, the brilliant HBO crime drama. I have to watch it again and maybe capture that sequence, because it's really great. Omar, a masterful rip-and-run artist (he makes a living robbing drug dealers), assembles a team to take down a crackhouse, and it doesn't exactly go off as planned. It is not a pretty gunfight, but it's visceral and utterly believable, especially in showing the ways a gunfight can go wrong.
The Lone Haranguer
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Yes, the "Glock 7" from Die Hard 2 takes the cake. Most errors are just annoying, but in this case it was a pivotal moment upon which a plot twisted and described in great detail. (What do you suppose the airport police chief did make in a month? We would probably be amazed. 
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In The Executioner series of pulp novels (the original ones from the early 1970s by Don Pendleton), the titular character Mack Bolan needed to select a rifle for long range sniping (800 yards plus). So he chose a .444 Marlin lever action. You would have to hold 12 feet or more over the target to hit it at that range. Perhaps he had a spotter on the other end? Later (presumably after the Marlin didn't work out ), he went to a .460 Weatherby Magnum. 
I would sure hate to fire that one from a rigid or fixed position. 
On the old FBI series with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., the FBI agents made some pretty amazing distance shots with their snubnose revolvers - and only to wound, too.
)In The Executioner series of pulp novels (the original ones from the early 1970s by Don Pendleton), the titular character Mack Bolan needed to select a rifle for long range sniping (800 yards plus). So he chose a .444 Marlin lever action.
You would have to hold 12 feet or more over the target to hit it at that range. Perhaps he had a spotter on the other end? Later (presumably after the Marlin didn't work out ), he went to a .460 Weatherby Magnum. I would sure hate to fire that one from a rigid or fixed position. On the old FBI series with Efrem Zimbalist Jr., the FBI agents made some pretty amazing distance shots with their snubnose revolvers - and only to wound, too.
Novus Collectus
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In Eldorado when James Caan shoots the fleeing bad guy from about 15 yards or so with a sawed off 10 or 12 gage coach gun and hits the store sign demolishing it about three feet above the guys head. He also hit him in the ankle with one of the pellets. That is like a nine foot spread at 15 yards or so!
My memory of the numbers may be off a little, but it was still ridiculous how much spread they claimed.
My memory of the numbers may be off a little, but it was still ridiculous how much spread they claimed.
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Almost already mentioned, but Glock 7 obviously!
Magnificent 7 with the 200-odd-yard shot with a Colt Peacemaker?
The Day of the Eagle with accurate fire from Mk2 Stens from the hip at what, 100 yards +?
Day of the Jackel with a belly-shot from a .22LR causing instantaneous death?
How do we choose?"
Hey! Give him a break! In The Magnificent 7 James Coburn said that he missed - "I was aiming for the horse."
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Almost already mentioned, but Glock 7 obviously!
Magnificent 7 with the 200-odd-yard shot with a Colt Peacemaker?
The Day of the Eagle with accurate fire from Mk2 Stens from the hip at what, 100 yards +?
Day of the Jackel with a belly-shot from a .22LR causing instantaneous death?
How do we choose?"
Hey! Give him a break! In The Magnificent 7 James Coburn said that he missed - "I was aiming for the horse."
Regolith
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Maybe they were using birdshot.
Also, I'm a bit surprised nobody's mentioned the scene in the Matrix where Neo is firing a SMG in a pistol caliber and they then cut to a shot of his feet where .223 brass is falling to the ground....
TonyB
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Just watched last week's Dead Zone(tv show) and the sherriff pulls her gun and you hear the requisite "cocking sound",although her finger was not on the trigger,so at least they got that right...
in Beverly Hills cop II when they're at the range and someone's shooting a huge revolver and after every shot you hear brass hitting the floor.In BHC one,though there was actually really good gun handling..reloads,use of safeties....Murphy even does a one handed reload of his Hi-power.....but as the series went on they got worse w/ the gun stuff and the movies.They have a new one coming out,it should be interesting to see how they handle their guns.
in Beverly Hills cop II when they're at the range and someone's shooting a huge revolver and after every shot you hear brass hitting the floor.In BHC one,though there was actually really good gun handling..reloads,use of safeties....Murphy even does a one handed reload of his Hi-power.....but as the series went on they got worse w/ the gun stuff and the movies.They have a new one coming out,it should be interesting to see how they handle their guns.
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