Guns in Movies

[dalebert]

Don't you hate it when they mishandle guns in movies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GYbsqFzDNU

[Lloyd Danforth]

You should read mysteries!  I can't believe the number of authors who get gun stuff wrong.

[K. Darien Freeheart]

On the homebrew forum I frequent, there was a thread that was essentially "Guns in porn". The premise - show a bunch of premium members a bunch of pictures of naked women handling firearms.

My first notice was "finger on the trigger". My second notice 'It's pointed at the camera". My third notice "She's naked!".

Non-porn movies and most TV shows drive me nuts, and I'm NOT a regular user of firearms.

[41mag]

Gunsmith Cats did a surprisingly good job on it, considering it was done in Japan where they are illegal.  Except for that part about having a gun store in Chicago, that wasn't very realistic. 

[William]

I hate it when they chamber a shotgun, don't fire, and then chamber another round for no particular reason (other than because it looks cool or sounds mean). Sneakers and T2 off the top of my head but it is quite common.

[dalebert]

We were having a discussion about chambering rounds a while back with handguns. I hadn't paid enough attention but it was pointed out how characters will have someone held at gunpoint and then they chamber a round as a kind of threatening action. What? You didn't even have a round chambered all that time? You were holding someone at gunpoint and it's not even ready to fire?

[doobie]

I can't view youtube from work

But there was a video a while back (I don't remember where I saw it), where two people were pointing shotguns at each other and kept pumping them...over...and over...and over....

[MattLeft]

Another all-to-frequent occurence:  guns in movies always "click" when you point them at someone.  Obviously, single-action cowboy revolvers click in westerns, because you're thumbing a hammer back.  But Glocks?  I've tried numerous times to make my Glock go "click" when I point it at something...never once worked.  It's those damn foley artists, the ones who add in all the sound effects in the post editing stage.

[Lloyd Danforth]

We were having a discussion about chambering rounds a while back with handguns. I hadn't paid enough attention but it was pointed out how characters will have someone held at gunpoint and then they chamber a round as a kind of threatening action. What? You didn't even have a round chambered all that time? You were holding someone at gunpoint and it's not even ready to fire?

I love it when actors with guns are looking for 1. dangerous people, 2. dangerous animals, 3. something unknown.  Anyway................its an obvious dangerous situation,and some one says,"Hear that?"   and, then  chambers a round!

[grasshopper]

Or they push the gun foreward like it needs help th disscharge the round

[Sam A. Robrin]

For that matter, in books, we always hear that "a shot rang out."  Since when do shots ring?  Maybe in the wide-open spaces (in the movies, anyhow), but in urban environments, it's more like a crack.