Gun 'mistakes' in Books, TV, and Movies - feel free to post your own

[doncb]

As to the Good, The Bad and the Ugly. They are cap and ball as noted in an earlier post, but they do load the cylinders with cartridges.

There was another scene where a rifle is fired and you hear the shot but nothing comes out of the barrel. No smoke. No flash. The view is probably 15 degrees off the muzzle.

At least they weren't carrying Glocks.

[Crash]

My wife and I often watch German-language "crimis" (cops and robber shows) on TV. The worst mistake they make is showing one type of gun in the holster but, magically, it's another kind when they pull it out. The last one we saw there was a model 1911 with pearl or ivory grips lying on the ground and the bad guy picks it up, points it at the cops, and it's suddenly a Walther PPK.

Crash

[RSX11]

My favorite gun gaffe was done by Jane Curtin, who plays a medical examiner on the series "Unforgettable". She and a detective are looking at a body in the morgue and he asks what the cause of death was. She points to a tiny hole in his abdomen and says he was shot with a 40mm. Mighty small hole for a shell that would be 1.5 inches wide...obviously the write was confused between 40 mm and .40 caliber.

[Pete92FS]

Watched "Last Man Standing" again last night and am still amazed at how many rounds Bruce Willis gets out of his 1911's. Wish mine could do that.

[goose]

Watched "Last Man Standing" again last night and am still amazed at how many rounds Bruce Willis gets out of his 1911's. Wish mine could do that.

Double stack 2011 with the old rule unlimited USPSA magazines that hang down so far they had to use green screen tape to hide them.

[goose]

From an advertisement I saw for the movie 'Deadpool.' Apparently already cooking off rounds because this MP5 pistol is able to fire while the shooter's finger isn't on the trigger. A new feature.

[Jusme]

From an advertisement I saw for the movie 'Deadpool.' Apparently already cooking off rounds because this MP5 pistol is able to fire while the shooter's finger isn't on the trigger. A new feature.

Must be that new "smart technology" the gun knew he wanted to shoot, and had already selected targets for him.

[goose]

Must be that new "smart technology" the gun knew he wanted to shoot, and had already selected targets for him.

This is a HUGE improvement over those pistols that need a ring or bracelet to fire.
Sales pitch: "Once your pistol is `trained` to fire by osmosis, it will only fire on your non-verbal command. no one else can shoot it. Of note the former rule of safe gun handling entitled 'always keep your finger off the trigger' has now been replaced with 'do not think `man, I'd like to cap that jack wagon.`'"

[Jago668]

Considering how much of that scene was cgi (basically everything), and then add in how much the people doing the cgi work don't know about guns. It is amazing you can't actually see a string of bullets nose to tail coming out of the gun.

[dwsintxs]

I found another mistake in another novel.

The title of the book is: Walk into Silence and features cops here in Dallas. At one point the cop finds out that the husband of the murdered woman bought his wife a gun that she ended up being murdered with.

The cop asks the guy, "Was the gun registered to your wife? Was the serial number filed off? Did you consider that you might have bought a stolen gun?"

The guy says, "I got it at a gun show in Garland. Nobody even asked me for an ID as long as I paid in cash. Something like a hundred bucks. They just dropped it into a shopping bag and threw in a box of cartridges for free.

The cop asked "Did she have a license to carry?"

The guy says, "No, I was told she didn't need one."

The gun is described as a Jennings six shot .22.

The guy says that the man who sold it to him at the gun show did not give him a receipt.

Then the cop explains that "Texas is one of a number of states where the BRADY BILL did not apply to 'private dealers' making guns available to gun show customers with no questions asked. Sort of like a big ole garage sale."

Then the cop thinks 'it's sad that the man bought his emotionally troubled wife an unregistered handgun. . . . '

Later the detective is asked, "Any chance we can run a GSR and get this over with?"

and the investigator says, "There's no primer on the casing of a twenty-two so there's no residue to look for."

[Scott B.]

Don't think I'd seen this movie, Lethal Weapon, since it was in theaters a billion years ago. Watched part of it recently and this scene, which was cool then, made me chuckle this time around.

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Particularly like the reflexive flinch/blink.

Edit, whatever the embedding for youtube is. Maybe install a phpBB menu button mod?

[Abraham]

I just finished a novel describing a Marline 30-30 Winchester and not once, but about 3 times, arrrggghhh.

Of course, I should have realized something like this would be in a novel by a guy who's a self-declared liberal, Bill Pronzini, a detective fiction writer.

He's not a bad writer, but he goes off on the occasional liberal rant, but most of the time doesn't ruin his novels with heavy doses of it...

[WildBill]

I just finished a novel describing a Marline 30-30 Winchester and not once, but about 3 times, arrrggghhh.

Of course, I should have realized something like this would be in a novel by a guy who's a self-declared liberal, Bill Pronzini, a detective fiction writer.

He's not a bad writer, but he goes off on the occasional liberal rant, but most of the time doesn't ruin his novels with heavy doses of it...

Maybe he didn't want to be sued by Marlin.
You said this was a novel, so it is supposed to be fiction.

[Ruark]

Here's my list, which I find VERY difficult to keep short.....

1. Guys firing all kinds of guns, even African-caliber rifles, with ZERO recoil. None. Nana.
2. Spraying an oncoming enemy point blank with full auto (thousands of rounds, of course) and not hitting him.
3. Firing at a running criminal 200 yards away with a snubnose revolver and he drops dead instantly.
4. Guns with suppressors going "pfft, pfft."
5. "Thrusting" a handgun forward when the trigger is pulled, especially in the old westerns. Roy Rogers was really bad at this.
6. A single shot from a handgun blowing a guy clear across the room and bouncing him off the wall 20 feet behind him.
7. Hiding behind a table or wall consisting of a thin board that's apparently bulletproof.

There are more, but I'll digress.....