Movies with proper gun handling

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It seems like nearly every movie or tv show I see, the actors always have their fingers on the triggers all the time. Even characters who should know better have their finger on the trigger, and personally, it drives me crazy. It just looks so wrong.

It seems like movies that show proper trigger safety is a rarity.

What movies show proper gun handling?
 
Michael Mann films are typically pretty good...Collateral, Miami Vice, Heat.
 
You should not be watching Hollywood movies as it only financially supports those who are actively seeking to make you a ward of the state. Just my $.02.
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Thanks, but you can keep the change.

Collateral, Miami Vice, Heat
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Collateral and Heat were pretty good if my memory serves.

To a certain extent, you shouldn't bother looking for "trigger discipline" if the film is about events WW2 and older in large part because trigger discipline wasn't a thing back then, so technically the films would be, in many ways, authentic to show a lack of trigger discipline.

I used to laugh at what I saw as exceptionally hokey firearms handling from old tv shows like "I Spy" until I stumbled onto this WW2 training video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14qTdp-Dd30 The rather silly one-handed, swivel on your heels move that I found so ludicrous in the tv show was actually proper "tactical" gun handling of the time. It's funny how quickly things can change over time!
 
AethelstanAegen said:
To a certain extent, you shouldn't bother looking for "trigger discipline" if the film is about events WW2 and older in large part because trigger discipline wasn't a thing back then, so technically the films would be, in many ways, authentic to show a lack of trigger discipline.
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Agreed.
 
9mmepiphany said:
Just off the top of my head, the first 5 were:


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Really?? I don't doubt you at all, I don't really watch for gun handling in a show. I am just surprised because...

1. that show doesn't even seem that popular that people would watch it and

2. it strikes me as the kind of show that wouldn't pay attention to details like that. I mean... the basis of the show is a time traveling cop working with a computer whiz genius boy to defeat grandfather paradoxing time-terrorists. Not usually where you find the highest attention to detail like gun handling.

But, I'll watch for it next time I see the show.

The big question is... what are the gun handling rules for a gun that collapses on itself without a muzzle when not in combat mode AND has non-firearm uses (like scanners and such).

I mean... if your gun is also your binoculars, thermal imaging device, xray machine, multi-tool and medical dispensary all rolled into one, seems like you'd have to rethink proper handling a bit.
 
Like everyone else I grew up watching tv/movies... and as a result had a lot of un-learning to do when I went in the military way back in 1968... Eleven years later after a few years in police work I had to go "back to school" to actually learn real self defense weapons use after a serious wake-up call (a street confrontation where I fired my one and only shot in 22 years of police work).

I learned over time just how much our society has absorbed the scenes in popular movies and how much we all have to learn to overcome those ingrained myths (my favorite is the scene where someone is hit by a shotgun blast as though being struck by the hand of the almighty... when no such thing ever occurs in real life...). Like everyone else I enjoy a movie with action sequences but have tried to remember that these fantasies are just that...

The tough part is when you realize that the majority of legislators and others who make the laws and rules really believe what they see in popular entertainments.... since they've never handled or had any training in weapons use.
 
lemaymiami said:
The tough part is when you realize that the majority of legislators and others who make the laws and rules really believe what they see in popular entertainments.... since they've never handled or had any training in weapons use.
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Ain't that the truth.
 
My vote

as to proper handling and safety ,my vote is NONE = so far.

the "director" or one of the mouths that has a say so ALWAYS shows their lack of knowledge when it comes to the use,handling,safety of firearms.

I have met a few of the "tech support" people that are on set,they are told to **** as far as input when the "mouth" says there will be a total lack of intelligence as to gun/firearm handling.

they refer to it as "poetic license".

Trying to teach LEO's and others about real world handling of firearms gives one a real appreciation as to make believe.

I have even tried [ tried is the word ] to teach a Marine about real world firearms handling,to be told "this is what I was taught" = he was then TOLD to do it correctly or not at all in my class.
 
AethelstanAegen said:
I used to laugh at what I saw as exceptionally hokey firearms handling from old tv shows like "I Spy" until I stumbled onto this WW2 training video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14qTdp-Dd30 The rather silly one-handed, swivel on your heels move that I found so ludicrous in the tv show was actually proper "tactical" gun handling of the time. It's funny how quickly things can change over time!
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This video made me LOL
 
the "director" or one of the mouths that has a say so ALWAYS shows their lack of knowledge when it comes to the use,handling,safety of firearms.

I have met a few of the "tech support" people that are on set,they are told to **** as far as input when the "mouth" says there will be a total lack of intelligence as to gun/firearm handling.
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I've always assumed that it was the actors fault. Most actors probably don't shoot a lot, if they ever have, so safe gun handling wouldn't come naturally to them, and therefore, they transfer that lack of experience into handling guns in movies.
 
I remember some of the "good guys" in Burn Notice would keep their trigger finger straight and up on the frame/slide while holding a suspect. Not sure if that was universal or varied actor to actor. The bad guys of course don't care about safety, so I am sure many of them had their fingers on triggers
 
Definitely! My favorite movie of all times!
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I've never bought a firearm because of a movie, but I think that record will be broken as soon as I can afford a Sharps in 45-110 or 50-90. That is a darn good movie.

That WW2 training video is hilarious! Nothing else to say.
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Glad you guys are enjoying it as much as I did. It was definitely funny and a real eye opener. A reminder that when we laugh at hokey 50s/60s action scenes, we probably should remember that some of the actors had done the real thing in WW2.
 
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