Oddly enough, I just watched the episode of CSI in question a few minutes ago. I had tivo'ed it from early May and was pondering whether to watch it or erase it, then I thought it might be the one being talked about it - it was. (Besides it involved "Lady Heather" ...)
There is a "rest of the story" aspect to the remarks of the ME. A guard at an old west amusement park had been both shot at and shot. The shootings were from opposite directions, so they surmised there was more than one shooter involved. He was shot at with a revolver as evidenced by the recovered "lead bullet with a cannelure". That was an accurate statement. They discovered an unlocked case full of 19th century revolvers and one of them was later found to be involved in the shooting.
The bullet that actually killed the guard was later recovered by the ME. It was a 9mm FMJ. So his statement, "That bullet is from a 20th century, high capacity, semi automatic pistol" makes a little more sense when the 6-shot, 19th century revolver is taken into account. The "high capacity" part especially sounds silly by itself, but when in context of the "low capacity" revolver, it's not quite as silly.
I often find fault with CSI like most here, but the statement being ridiculed in this thread isn't quite as bad as others they have made when viewed in context. Oh, and I flat out hate CSI:Miami - worst acting and writing in a sea of bad acting and writing on TV. I doubt I've watched a single episode of that in the last 4 years.
There is a "rest of the story" aspect to the remarks of the ME. A guard at an old west amusement park had been both shot at and shot. The shootings were from opposite directions, so they surmised there was more than one shooter involved. He was shot at with a revolver as evidenced by the recovered "lead bullet with a cannelure". That was an accurate statement. They discovered an unlocked case full of 19th century revolvers and one of them was later found to be involved in the shooting.
The bullet that actually killed the guard was later recovered by the ME. It was a 9mm FMJ. So his statement, "That bullet is from a 20th century, high capacity, semi automatic pistol" makes a little more sense when the 6-shot, 19th century revolver is taken into account. The "high capacity" part especially sounds silly by itself, but when in context of the "low capacity" revolver, it's not quite as silly.
I often find fault with CSI like most here, but the statement being ridiculed in this thread isn't quite as bad as others they have made when viewed in context. Oh, and I flat out hate CSI:Miami - worst acting and writing in a sea of bad acting and writing on TV. I doubt I've watched a single episode of that in the last 4 years.
