So, like many of you probably do, I will be watching a show or a movie and see something firearms related that's simply ridiculous and go "That's just stupid!!"
I'll start off the list... first - I hate when the good guy (or bad guy) comes up to a door/fence/container that's locked with a chain, and they stand 5 feet away from it and shoot the lock - the lock suddenly falls away, and amazingly enough, there's no riccochet, and no one EVER gets hurt doing this.
Okay, all done now... What's your favorite Hollywood firearm gripe?
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How about all those pistol rounds that cause showers of sparks and/or little balls of fire when they hit a wall/door/car/chair and cause catastrophic explosions when they hit the front bumper of a Cadillac? I've been looking for some of those explosive/incendiary 9mm and .38 rounds, but they must not sell them anywhere but Hollywood.
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When the hammer on a 1911 is not cocked as they go in guns blazing.
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The seemingly impossible shot with open sights at 300 yards at a moving target,
"Not to worry, I got this !!! " "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here." Captain John Parker
People being shot in the abdomen dropping dead instantly. Short of the abdominal aorta, there's nothing in the abdominal region that could cause enough damage to kill that fast.
In real life they'd die a slow death over the course of several hours, or even over a day from infection and blood loss.
About a year ago I happened to watch a "Bones" episode called "The Dwarf in the Dirt".
Beside a skeleton found in sinkhole was a handgun.
It was described as "a .22 caliber Ruger Mark III, rusted beyond belief".
And then this was flashed on the screen.
I'm pretty sure that is not a Ruger Mk III.
Here's another scene where it was shown:
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How about the gratuitous pistol whipping where the grips never fall apart and the cylinder never falls out. Secondly, firing a machine guns (thousands of rounds) and the barrel never getting red hot and melting.
I always hated what I call the "A team" effect. The good guys get one shot one kill and sometimes several kills from one shot, but numerous bad guys can shoot at the good guys and the good guys seem bullet proof.
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Oh jeez, where do I begin? The offenses are legion.
- Having a finger inside the trigger guard or resting on the trigger itself, rather than safe alongside the side
- Drawing a gun and pointing it or threatening with it when there is no reason to do so
- "Clearing" a house or apartment by sneaking up to a doorway with the gun down (or up) and then suddenly jumping into the doorway all at once while swinging the gun into shooting position (anybody ever heard of "pieing" the room?)
- Of course, the semi-autos that apparently hold about 30 rounds, and in the hands of the good guy almost never miss exactly what he's aiming at, but in the hands of the bad guy send rounds everywhere except into the good guy
- Bullets hitting a car, door, or anything else and making sparks and loud, fake ricochet sounds
- One of the most egregious: in the movie Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson sends a silhouette target downrange, fired a bunch of rounds, and retreives the target, at which point we see he has put two eyes, a nose and a smile on the silhouette's head. In other word: No freakin' way.
- Another egregious example from the same movie - the scene in which Danny Glover first meets Mel Gibson. They're in the police department offices and Glover looks out of an office and sees Mel leaning against a desk. Mel pulls out his gun and handles it and looks at it, caressing it. Glover yells "gun!" and comes running out to try to tackle Gibson. If a detective is sitting around the office, leaning on a desk and casually pulls his gun out and starts handling it like that, I would think that would be cause for, at very least, a sharp dressing-down from his supervisor, if not a formal reprimand. It's not a Matchbox car for you to pull out of your pocket and play with when you're bored.
- Someone getting shot in the arm or leg and wincing in pain while they continue going about whatever it is they need to do. Maybe, maybe, in a firefight, adrenaline would take over, but I would think for most people, the pain would be severe and excruciating the point of being nearly incapacitating - depending, of course, on just exactly where you got hit
- People shooting without aiming - either just raising a gun and quickly popping off a round or - worse - shooting from the hip - and then hitting exactly what they were trying to hit
- People riding a horse, motorcycle, helicopter, bicycle, car, airplane, hovercraft, or whatever, hanging out the side or off the back with a pistol in one hand and hitting exactly what they were trying to hit in one shot, while everything is moving
- All kinds of other idiocy when talking about guns. I know the actors are simply reading the scripts they were provided, but the ignorance of the script writers is then on full display for all to scorn and mock.
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The gratuitous sound of the safety being clicked off (on a GLOCK!!) or sound of the hammer being cocked on a semiautomatic handgun (how did that round get in the chamber anyhow?).
I hate the way they claim "this" or "that" is illegal or when they try to find out who the gun is "registered" to.
I have to duct tape my head to watch some of these shows. And then my wife gets pi$$ed when I call them out on it.
Particularly that stupid "Bones" show which is FBI and filmed to largely be in and around Langley or Quantico(*) - in VIRGINIA. They obviously want to apply Kommiefornia firearms law to Virginia and it agitates the bejeebus out of me.
(* from the best I can figure anyhow)
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wylde007 wrote:I hate the way they claim "this" or "that" is illegal or when they try to find out who the gun is "registered" to.
I have to duct tape my head to watch some of these shows. And then my wife gets pi$$ed when I call them out on it.
Particularly that stupid "Bones" show which is FBI and filmed to largely be in and around Langley or Quantico(*) - in VIRGINIA. They obviously want to apply Kommiefornia firearms law to Virginia and it agitates the bejeebus out of me.
(* from the best I can figure anyhow)
Really? Bones is based out of a museum that's a stand in for the Smithsonian. In DC. They don't go to Langley (that's CIA) but they do occasionally hit Quantico (that's FBI). What surprises me is she (the main character) is concealed carrying in DC!
What's your Hollywood firearm pet peeve?
"Not to worry, I got this !!! " "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here." Captain John Parker
