On the other hand, every now and then Hollywood somehow gets things right...
Back when Halley's Comet was in the news, Hollywood coughed up a 1984 B-movie called "Night of the Comet". The comet turned most people into shambling zombies, and two teenage girls were trying to make it out to town to someplace safer.
On the way, they broke into a gun store and took a couple of MAC-10s and filled their purses with magazines. Whoever directed the shooting scenes almost certainly had some trigger time with a MAC. BRRRRRUPPP! [gun swings up and to the side from recoil] [mag change] BRRRRRUPPP! [gun swings up and to the side from recoil] [mag change]
A MAC is a two or three burst SMG until you learn to tickle the trigger, and the heavy bolt makes it dance in your hand like a rabid weasel. I'm a big guy with a lot of MAC trigger time, and it's still more or less a "spray and pray weapon" without a foregrip and the stock extended. I've let other people shoot mine, and the girls were behaving exactly like every newbie does in the beginning. *Excellent* choreography there.
from various movie quotes pages:
Regina: "Come on, Hector. The MAC-10 submachine gun was practically designed for housewives."
[after her MAC-10 jams during target practice]
"See, this is the problem with these things. Daddy would have gotten us Uzis."
[criticizing another teen's choice of firepower]
"Top break .32? Where did you get this, a dime store?" ... "Well, it might be all right for date night in the barrio, but if we run into any more of those guys outside we're gonna need a little more stopping power."
It's not "Quigley Down Under", but it's worth snagging a copy, kicking back with a bowl of popcorn and a beverage, and enjoying some Elvira-grade B-movie fun. And since it was made for TV in 1984, it's not full of profanity and gross-out violence like so much of the newer stuff.