Best BUG usage in movies and TV/ real world

[SAG0282]

I vaguely recall an X-Files from a long time ago. There had been a lot of episodes where they used the plot-device of Mulder losing his gun.

In a later episode, he loses it again - but suddenly pulls out a BUG. Badguy (or maybe his partner) says, "You started carrying a second gun?"

Mulder just replies, "Yeah, I kept losing the other one."

Ha, you beat me to it.

 

[GEM]

The best X-Files moment and it might have been with that gun is when someone is holding a hostage and Muldar puts to gun to his head. Of course, the BG says if you don't drop the gun I will, blah, blah.

Fox says something like - I will count to ten and the you better let go. Then Fox shoots him at 4 or so. Great distraction.

 

[sm]

Way Of The Gun
The scene where James Caan approaches and is asked to "show no weapons".
His hands in pockets of jacket, lifts jacket , and "shows no weapons".

Many folks may not have caught that scene - I found it to be a great scene as it reinforces something I have typed many times - "what perception do you want to give?"

 

[longeyes]

It's got to be Taxi Driver. A CASCADE of guns. Someone else can provide the details, I'm sure. Maybe...a .44mag S&W, a PPK, another semi...

"I do not recall the title of the ep but it was written by pro-gun film maker/NRA board member: John Milius."

If guns are involved and it's good, it's probably Milius involved somewhere.

 

[Avenger]

"Bad Boys", where the baddie whips out with the 4-barrel at the end. True, Will Smith does kill him, but still a good scene.
Hmm, I'm not sure if it counts as a BUG after all. I recall him blasting away with an MP5 a few scenes before, but my GF, who watched the movie last week, says he didn't.

 

[VirgilCaine]

It's got to be Taxi Driver. A CASCADE of guns. Someone else can provide the details, I'm sure. Maybe...a .44mag S&W, a PPK, another semi...

Okay, I hear people get this wrong a lot:

1. PPK: Bodega owner took it from him when he shot the robber. Doesn't have it in the final shootout.
2. .44 Magnum: 1 shot at the timekeeper's hand, then dropped in the hallway when he's shot in the neck.
3. .38 Special snub: One shot into Sport's stomach, 2 shots at Sport when Sport shoot's him, three more at the timekeeper on the stairs.
4. .25 Browning in sleeve device: 5 shots at the Mafioso to the head/face.

Bowie knife taped on boot: Used to stab the timekeeper in the OTHER hand.

The X-files moment was great.

 

[Coyote3855]

Die Hard

Bruce Willis nails the bad guy with the last round from a Baretta he had duct taped to his back...

 

[Dirty Bob]

In "Colors," Sean Penn loses his duty revolver in a fight with a BG. While grappling with BG in a restaurant kitchen, he pulls a J-frame from an ankle holster. IIRC, he doesn't use it, as Robert Duvall shoves part of the BG's body against a hot grill.

Regards,
Dirty Bob

 

[Piedmont Plinker]

US Marshalls- numerous references to a back up, BG pulls one on Tommy Lee Jones at the end
The Untouchables-Andy Garcia's nickled Colt Detective Special-that thing is hot!
BTW, I think it was a 3rd issue with a shrouded barrel that they used in the movie, which was set in 1930. Anyone know?

 

[SRFL]

In "8 Million Ways to Die," Jeff Bridges' character, Scudder empties his primary weapon, an HK P9S Combat (I think in 9mm), at Andy Garcia's character and his boys and then pulls out a 4" barreled revolver he used as his secondary weapon....not sure of the revolver, but if I recollect, it was a fixed sighted model; maybe a Ruger Service Six.

 

[Candiru]

Way Of The Gun
The scene where James Caan approaches and is asked to "show no weapons".
His hands in pockets of jacket, lifts jacket , and "shows no weapons".

Many folks may not have caught that scene - I found it to be a great scene as it reinforces something I have typed many times - "what perception do you want to give?"

I didn't even catch that until you mentioned it, but you're right. That's one of the reasons I like that movie so much: It doesn't talk down to the audience; it'll let you completely miss something. A lot of the movie's critics complain that it's boring and empty, but it's actually just very subtle.

 

[VacuumJockey]

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Val Kilmer as Gay Perry. He carries an NAA mini-revolver next to his junk because, as he puts it (paraphrased): "Guys don't like to grab other guys in the crotch". This of course after he has shot a henchman who failed to do just that.

A great and sadly overlooked little movie. See it.

 

[Working Man]

Wild Wild West (TV show)

James West had that derringer that he would use to shoot an arrow with a
line attached to it or just shoot a BG.

He use it in one form or another in almost every show.

 

[Cybrludite]

Ronin, when Gregor meets up with his contact. He disarms the guy & they talk in the jeep. Gregor looks out the window for a second, & the guy's covering him with a compact Glock. "Vere did zat come from? I should haff made you strip."

 

[revolvergeek]

In "8 Million Ways to Die," Jeff Bridges' character, Scudder empties his primary weapon, an HK P9S Combat (I think in 9mm), at Andy Garcia's character and his boys and then pulls out a 4" barreled revolver he used as his secondary weapon....not sure of the revolver, but if I recollect, it was a fixed sighted model; maybe a Ruger Service Six.

Great catch there SRFL! Beat me to it. Very overlooked movie based on a novel by one of my favorite authors.

Also the seen where Jeff Bridges gets rushed by they giant black bodyguard, and fumbles to draw a little .25 auto from an ankle holster and tells the guy something to the effect of "You may be big, but you will still bleed!"

 

[MikePGS]

This reminds me of a book i was reading from about the first CIA class after 9/11. I forget the title, buy anyways at a certain point they frisk one of the instructors (who is playing the role of a bad guy) and find a gun. They talk to the guy playing their roles and as he goes to leave he turns to tell them something... but a car drives by right at that point. it turns out later that he was trying to tell them that he actually had a BUG on him, and that people tend to stop searching when they find something. A useful thing to keep in mind I think.

 

[Caimlas]

Only thing I can think of immediately is the gun John McClain duct-taped to his back in Die Hard.

 

[Ala Dan]

From My "Real World" Experience

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concealment piece. Larry makes some of the finest small frame self-loaders
found anywhere in the world; and he is a wonderful person who stands
behind the family tradition. Try one out, and feel the difference for your
self~!

 

[JFrame]

Maybe not the "best" or the "first," but the first that left an indelible impression on me was from an early episode of Robert Blake's "Baretta." The show opened with Tony being ambushed by a bunch of gangbangers, and he returns fire with his .38 snubbie. When he runs out of ammo, the bangers realize this, and one of them rushes his position. Tony claws a second .38 out of his boot and drops the baddie.

I can truly say that my concept of the BUG was formed at that moment...

 

[buzz_knox]

In the Miami Vice scene, Crockett is being choked by actor Reb Brown(who was playing a badass outlaw biker). Sonny reached down and unloaded his AMT into Brown and watched him fall into the water.

There was another scene in which Crockett was on his boat with a model (Iman) whom he was protecting from her deranged brother, who was killing those involved with her. After putting his Bren away, Tubbs calls and tells him that there is no brother, and the model is the psycho cross dressing killer. She comes at him and he falls on his back. He pulls the Detonics out of an ankle rig and drops her.

 

[Outlaw Man]

Matrix - when they go through the metal detectors.

 

[hankdatank1362]

Tubbs BUG was an Ithaca 12 gauge. His primary was a .38 S&W. I don't think he fully understood the concept of primary and secondary weapons...

Hahahaha ain't that the truth!

 

[Chuck Perry]

Things to do in Denver When You're Dead Mr. Shush, after being put down with a 12 gauge and apparently disarmed, pulls a hidden derringer and blasts Treat William's character before expiring himself. Great movie

 

[RustyShackelford]

Tubbs-BUG use; Miami Vice TV series/Face Off

I think the producers/writers had the Det SGT Ricardo Tubbs character carry a cut down .12ga shotgun because that is what many NYPD detectives would carry in "stake-out" or covert ops-narcotics in the 1970s/1980s. When Miami Vice started Tubbs used a double barrel sawed off .12ga shotgun but the network execs and censors gave the producers a hard time over it's use in the series. That's why Tubbs used a short barrel pump shotgun in later shows. Tubbs also had a SIGarms P-226 9mmNATO in the last part of Miami Vice(1989) to use with his S&W Bodyguard .38spl.

I also wanted to add John Travolta's FBI Special Agent Archer's use of a stainless S&W model 66 .357magnum snub to back up his big SIGarms P-220 .45acp in the John Woo hit film; Face Off. www.imdb.com

Ain't it cool.

Sorry wrong Woo!

 

[Shaughn Leayme]

Clint Eastwood in Pink Cadillac, when he rests his leg up on the desk, like he is rubbing out a cramp or getting comfy, then draws a gun from a boot top or ankle holster (can't remember which) and pots the BG, been awhile since I saw the flick.