Trunk Monkey
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Exactly. The cult of "Keep your booger hook off the bang switch!" is relatively new. Many of these cultists would go absolutely apoplectic if they were sent back in time and saw some of the gun handling of bygone days. It is understandable for a semiauto pistol (especially something like a Glock), but not such a big deal with a DA or SA revolver.
I do remember one thing that I saw once that did impress me. On one episode of Star Trek (the real one), I don't remember the exact episode or even the situation, but I do remember a red shirt was holding his phaser pistol on the bad guy, and Kirk walked between them, and as he did, red shirt instinctively lowered his pistol as Kirk passed, and then raised it back up. Obviously had handled firearms before.
There used to be a television show called Life On Mars the premise was a cop from the 21st century gets sent back in time to the late sixties.
There was one scene where all the cops had to draw their guns and they emphasize the fact that all the 60s cops have their fingers on the trigger and the 21st century cop had his finger indexed. When they set up the scene in the camera first thing you saw was everybody's hands and they drew attention to the difference.
Their intent was to show that he was out of his time and place but it's interesting that that's what they picked to show that
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