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What cheeses you off about firearms in movies and T.V. shows

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#1 ·
I absolutely hate it when the "good guys" are being hunted down, and they kayo or kill one of the bad guys, but leave his gun there instead of taking it to arm themselves! Another thing... Unlimited ammo for everyone annoys the heck out of me as well.

And everyone seems to be able to own fully automatic weapons as well. When was the last time you saw one of those at the range? Any other pet peeves?
 
#3 ·
I hate when the visual effects guys get it so wrong that you see a semi-automatic blast away with the slide locked back. At least try to get your props right. It really ruins the effect.
Oh yeah, and the Rambo never-ending M-16s and AK-47s that fire 300 rounds without reloading, or taking out an entire company of men with a single magazine.
 
#5 ·
Most recently I was once more watching one of the History Channel's "documentaries" on the men of WWI and the parts they played in WWII. I was totally ignorant that everyone in all countries, from the 1920's onward, military and civilian used SMLE's. Evidently even before WWII the Wehrmacht used captured SMLE's to put down civilian unrest, German civilians used them and the US Army trained with them. Never saw a Mauser or Springfield the whole 6 hours.
 
#6 ·
Unlimited rounds in a revolver or magazine; snap shooting with a handgun right between the eyes...at 50 or 100 yards.

The way people go down on the first hit just like they are supposed to.
 
#7 ·
The fact that the GG's always win the gun fights with a pistol, when they are outnumbered by the BG's, who are armed with full auto-matic rifles. When the GG's seek cover behind a car door. Or you see the slide lock back after only firing only one, or two rounds. Who goes into a gun fight with only a few rounds in their magazines. I'm sorry, I meant "clips"!
 
#33 ·
Agreed, this one bothers me terribly. In some shows the GG rack their slide every scene.

Live the stealth slow racks where they pull it back then push it forward.

Next are the lazy sound editors . A semi auto fires and you hear a 'tink' with the casing hitting the ground. Moment later, a revolver fires, then there's that tink.. Argh...

How about the guys pulling their AR mags looking into the top then saying I got 12 left.

How the heck are they seeing that from the top...
 
#13 ·
I don't like the reality shows that adds drama to an other wise good program.
"Ice Road Truckers " is one . I have been on that rout many times and half the trucks shown would fail inspection and not be allowed on those roads. Can you imagine driving at -30 and no heat or how rough they handle their cargo? All this just to add a little exitment to the program.
How about some of the modern home steaders and trappers living off the grid. They include people who are in the wilderness who don't carry a gun/rifle. Or the one that only hunts with a muzzle loader or the one that hunts only with a bow and arrow. And the drama of " our camp was wrecked by a bear " and we should try to scare it off. Having spent far too much time in the far north all I can say is that from the age of ten, you were always taught that your best friend in the bush was your rifle and if a bear molests your camp, you shoot it. Other than that some times it is interesting to watch.
 
#15 ·
What cheeses you off about firearms in movies and T.V. shows

There are SO many things, I'll put this one first;

The fact that virtually every TV show/movie features an actor with a gun, when that actor gets of the screen, they advocate banning guns.
 
#17 ·
The sound of brass hitting the floor after someone fires a revolver. The show "The Rifleman", in the opening he's walking down the street just working that lever, but not one piece of brass is ejected. Or in warehouse shootouts, the GG runs out of ammo and the mags from the dead BGs guns just happen to fit theirs.
 
#36 ·
Last two trips to the Range was with 10/22 and Shield . Tomorrow the Heavy ones get some exercise including me
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You notice he didn't start using that hip shooting until after he had Mark. He never had any other children. Wonder if those groin shots in tight jeans caused that?

It may have been mentioned already, but it bothers me to see a shooter rack the slide on his/her gun every time there's a pause in the shooting, yet an unfired round is never ejected. Yeah, hip shots to the forehead from 200 yards stretch my credulity a bit, but I bet Jerry Miculek could do it.
So could Ziva.

In all the "westerns" I've watched, have never seen anybodys horse take a dump ! ..... Gregg
They can't do that or show their navels or they will be fined. Them 2 dollar fine per turd get expensive with a team or horses.
 
#19 ·
It may have been mentioned already, but it bothers me to see a shooter rack the slide on his/her gun every time there's a pause in the shooting, yet an unfired round is never ejected. Yeah, hip shots to the forehead from 200 yards stretch my credulity a bit, but I bet Jerry Miculek could do it.
 
#23 ·
All of the above, plus when someone is carrying a Glock, you hear the click of them supposedly taking off the safety, or thumbing back the hammer. I really haven't figured out what that "click" is supposed to be. It drives the wife crazy when we are watching a movie and I start criticizing the depictions of firearms. My daughter and son laugh and say I should be a technical adviser to these movies.
 
#29 ·
That happens all the time in the Walking Dead. They have a glock, yet when they need to show the character is serious they have a quick sound of a hammer being cocked, on a gun with no hammer.

Or that characters on all kinds of shows go into hot situations apparently without a round chambered or someone is holding a person at gun point and to show they really mean it they rack the slide. Nothing gets ejected so I'm guessing they had an empty chamber the entire time...
 
#31 ·
Or like in that one John Wayne movie, The Comancheros set in 1848 and they're using '92 Winchesters and Colt SAA's.

Another thing is the wrong horse tack for the period. As in the same move, and many others, they use 1930's tack in an 1830 movie.
 
#32 ·
#1 - Good guy gets shot (or beaten to a pulp) and he is limping and busted up, but as the next few minutes go by, he quits limping and is better than new a few minutes later (other than perhaps a dirty t-shirt)

#2 - from when I was a kid...cowboys using double-action 1950s revolvers in TV shows
#3 - shooting inside of a house, much less a car never seems to affect the hearing of the actors
#4 - also from old westerns - why does every shot out of a rifle ricochet?

Plus all the others that people have mentioned.
 
#34 ·
+1 on the BG guns that never need reloading but the top two things on my hit list are single hand swinging around and shooting large handguns (Laura Croft carries the iconic Desert Eagle but apparently hers weighs a mere few ounces, shoots a .50 cal bullet and has no recoil so she can handle two at one time); #2 is numb-skulls holding guns sideways slanted towards the ground while they cock their heads to the side supposedly to use the sights. A close third annoyance is the idiot that throws a gun in the air or catches one thrown to him and in a single slow motion act jumps sideways, catches the gun and without thinking shoots the bad guy center mast in the forehead.
 
#37 ·
Hard Target. Lance Henriksen is using a Thompson Contender in either .444 Marlin or .45-70. No sights. Shooting in a construction zone, misses Jean-Claude and hits a warning barrel. Barrel explodes in flames and is blown off the bridge. I Want Some of that Ammo. Or in the final scene, Jean-Claude pulls the pin and drops a grenade in Lances' pants. Lance digs the grenade out and with his bare hands unscrews the fuse. Sits there sighing in relief, fuse in one hand, grenade in the other, then goes 'Oh No!". Fuse emits spark and grenade explodes.
They really should invest in some experts on weapons. I don't believe grenades will explode if the fuse is removed no matter how close the fuse is to the grenade. You would probably just get a jet of flames and smoke. No containment, no explosion
 
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