Gun Related Stupid Movie Mistakes

[Matt J C]

The walking dead is one of my favorite shows, but the very first episode made me grit my teeth when one of the main characters tells another officer to take the safety off of his gun....it was a glock...he pit his thumb on the slide release...

 

[flcracker]

Been checking out a new TV series..."Longmire"... Hoping it'll become one of the good ones....But..

Sheriff Longmire carries a 1911....and in a recently watched show, he pulls on somebody, and he manually thumbs back the hammer on his Colt (or whatever), after he pulls it from the holster... WTF??

But wait!...it gets worse!...before he re-holsters, you see him lower the hammer back down on what we all perceive is a live round, then back into the holster. Wow!...some basic gun safety needs attention to that little move!

Same guy is often seen standing around, with his hand constantly on the grip of his holstered pistol...which if I were nearby, would cause me concern, and to wonder.. 'are you thinking about pulling on me, or what?' Not to mention the extra added weight of his hand on an already fairly heavy sidearm, would cause serious extra stress on his gun belt.

I'm also a serious fan of 'westerns'...(My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys).... Can't count the times I see various firearms used in a dated period, before they were ever mfg'ed and available for use.

Hate that *****! But I still keep watchin'...and hoping they sometimes get it right.... As sometimes they do.

FLc

 

[Treo]

Sheriff Longmire carries a 1911....and in a recently watched show, he pulls on somebody, and he manually thumbs back the hammer on his Colt (or whatever), after he pulls it from the holster... WTF??

But wait!...it gets worse!...before he re-holsters, you see him lower the hammer back down on what we all perceive is a live round, then back into the holster. Wow!...some basic gun safety needs attention to that little move!

To be fair I wouldn't call that a mistake there are a lot of people out there that carry their 1911 just like that.

 

[flcracker]

To be fair I wouldn't call that a mistake there are a lot of people out there that carry their 1911 just like that.

To be fair...they're extremely wrong...the only safe way to carry a full battery SA 1911, is cocked and locked....'Easing' the hammer down on a live round is asking for an AD or ND.. BTW he did it one-handed... very difficult move....considering the grip safety.

Not to mention that if you ever need to put the pistol in action, in a 'timely' manner, you don't want to take the extra time to manually cock the pistol, before you can fire it....

The first pistol I ever bought back in 1960, was a 1911 Govt Model Colt...they were my father's (former Marine, Korean vet, armorer) favorite handguns, and I often carried one when still active duty Army, as my Group HQ's Msg Center NCOIC and courier. Never to consider myself to be an expert, but I've been acquainted with 'em for a few decades now.

Carrying hammer down on a 70 or earlier series with a chambered round, is just wrong.

Regards,

FLc

 

[Treo]

To be fair...they're extremely wrong...the only safe way to carry a full battery SA 1911, is cocked and locked....'Easing' the hammer down on a live round is asking for an AD or ND.. BTW he did it one-handed... very difficult move....considering the grip safety.

Different argument for a different place.

My point is there really are quite a few people that do stupid things like that so it doesn't qualify as a movie mistake like flicking the "safety" off a GLOCK or racking the slide on a double barrled shotgun would


Speaking of which I liked the way they fired M16A2s full auto (not burst) in Courage Under Fire.

 

[blazemyowntrails]

Sorry, been away for a while, but this got me thinking:

In The Rock(Cage & Connery), how many F'ING times do the Marines have to chamber a round in their ARs?! OMG, watch the movie and count how many! It almost ruined the movie for me...

The lack of gun knowledge in some shows/ movies can ruin them for me, but more often than that my girlfriend gets upset at my reaction. I sigh and shake my head at the stupid mistakes and she gives me the "oh jeeze here we go" look. Anyone else ever get that response?

 

[Nightmare45]

To be fair I wouldn't call that a mistake there are a lot of people out there that carry their 1911 just like that.

There are a lot of people out there that will shot themselves or someone else doing just that, yep TV/Movies really train you in gun safety.

 

[Treo]

There are a lot of people out there that will shot themselves or someone else doing just that, yep TV/Movies really train you in gun safety.

I never said it was safe, I never said it was a proper way to carry a 1911 I said it's not inaccurate (even though it may be wrong) to depict some idiot doing it.

 

[spirit4earth]

Sorry, been away for a while, but this got me thinking:



The lack of gun knowledge in some shows/ movies can ruin them for me, but more often than that my girlfriend gets upset at my reaction. I sigh and shake my head at the stupid mistakes and she gives me the "oh jeeze here we go" look. Anyone else ever get that response?

I get that response from my sister whenever we watch hospital shows. The ERs are NEVER right!

 

[hogwylde]

Under Seige - Steven Segal

Him and his crew of 4 or 5 shot the 16" guns on a Battleship when it takes at least 50. I know this because I served on a Battleship and was the Cradle Operator for the center gun of Turret 3.

 

[K7lvo]

In the TV series J.A.G. in an episode that had Harmon Rabb in South America he and Sara had to shoot a bad guy. Harm's Barretta stovepiped and he held it on the bad guy in that condition while they cleared the scene.