Firearm Inaccuracies In Media

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It seems like when they pull out their semi-auto pistol they always rack the slide. Well, it seems to me that if the gun was already loaded and charged they just ejected a perfectly good round onto the ground.
 
Worst part of it is, it wasn't a 'one-off' boo-boo. It's repeated in almost every single episode. In only one episode to date have I seen a bad guy shooting back at the Barkleys with a Winchester...and a '94 at that.
My suspicion is that Marlin was providing the rifles as promo items, figuring most people wouldn't know the difference.

Yea.... the Marlins were probably in the tv producer's prop department. And there is something about marketing called "product placement:" when you see a movie and the main character has a Pepsi, drives a BMW, has a Rolex watch.......that sort of thing. Product placement. The companies actually pay for James Bond to be using that brand of aftershave.
 
When the cowboy starts with his muzzle pointed skyward, then as he's firing brings it down...kinda resembling casting with a fly-rod...

Kinda looks like they're throwing the bullets at the bad guys when they do that. But to be honest I believe that more recent movies and TV shows have at least made an effort to be more accurate than years ago.

Not gun related but every time they show someone looking through binoculars you get the dual overlapping circle view. That isn't what you see when you look through binoculars.
 
I always like when heroes/villains with real working knowledge shoot a gun empty, the slide locks back, then they somehow "click click click" wondering why the gun won't fire, the turn the gun sideways and look dumbfounded as to why it's not going boom.
Definitely one of the worst. I'll give them a pass on the wrong firearm. But at least get the function right.
It was mentioned already. But racking your pump at every corner is wrong on every level.
 
I saw a Hawaii 5-0 episode where they said the victim was shot with a 9mm Glock 29. It would have taken the writers a minute or two of research to get that right.
 
I'm not really worried bout what Hollywood does. I'm much more concerned when The ABC nightly news starts talking about "The Gunshow Loophole" that allows felons to "legally" buy guns or how 112% of Americans (who have no idea what current gun laws are) support stricter gun laws or conflating an AR15,with an ICBM
 
In one of the Hallmark Mystery detective shows the female lead gets knocked out and her draw service pistol stolen by the villain she was searching for.

She later catches up to him armed with her backup while he has a hostage. When he pulls the trigger the gun goes click and she shoots him.

She then states that she always carries chamber empty, even when she was earlier searching for the villain with the gun drawn
 
I'm not really worried bout what Hollywood does. I'm much more concerned when The ABC nightly news starts talking about "The Gunshow Loophole" that allows felons to "legally" buy guns or how 112% of Americans (who have no idea what current gun laws are) support stricter gun laws or conflating an AR15,with an ICBM
Yeah. There are just as many inaccuracies about firearms on the “non-fiction” portions of TV programming as there are in the fictional ones,
 
Carrying a long arm, shooting the one magazine in it, and tossing it down to switch to a pistol. Even when the opposing forces have the exact same long arm and magazines. Sigh.

Grenades with 6oz of filler going off like 2# of dynamite. After throwing them less than 7m (so, being well with in the danger zone).
 
I agree that the most irresponsible use of gun falsehoods is the mainstream media. "Automatic assault rifles, loopholes that don't exist, military style weapons, etc.". But to continue with some of the Hollywood items: Movie, The Town with Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner among others. In the parking garage after they just robbed Fenway Park, a flash bang causes the youngest member of the gang to stand up and one of the SWAT guys shoots him in the head. It is dramatic in that the noise of the movie is temporarily lowered so the shot stands out. After the shot and the young guy collapses to the ground, they show the SWAT member then cycle the bolt with the charging handle to remove the spent round. So this SWAT team is using single shot AR's???
 
In TV shows or movies an actor grips a pistol so low you can see a finger's width under the backstrap. I don't know why but this just irritates me, the visual wrongness of it.
 
I agree that the most irresponsible use of gun falsehoods is the mainstream media. "Automatic assault rifles, loopholes that don't exist, military style weapons, etc.". But to continue with some of the Hollywood items: Movie, The Town with Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner among others. In the parking garage after they just robbed Fenway Park, a flash bang causes the youngest member of the gang to stand up and one of the SWAT guys shoots him in the head. It is dramatic in that the noise of the movie is temporarily lowered so the shot stands out. After the shot and the young guy collapses to the ground, they show the SWAT member then cycle the bolt with the charging handle to remove the spent round. So this SWAT team is using single shot AR's???




I just watched The Town the other day and was wondering the exact same thing.
 
It seems like when they pull out their semi-auto pistol they always rack the slide. Well, it seems to me that if the gun was already loaded and charged they just ejected a perfectly good round onto the ground.

I was going to mention this myself. It would seem that most of the good guys carry empty chamber as they always have to rack the slide before going into the warehouse after the bad guys.

Also pretty funny when 3 bad guys firing full auto rifles can't hit the good guy who then takes them out with his pistol.I've also noticed those full auto rifles hold unlimited rounds. But then so do the good guys pistols.
 
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