Gun errors in books and movies

[Chromedhearts]

It's one of my gripes; my wife hates watching certain movies with me. I just finished a novel set in New York in the mid 90's. I enjoyed it for the most part. There was an interesting paragraph about getting a New York Trigger on a Glock, then they had to go and "flip the safety off" of said Glock before a firefight, involving NYPD, Navy Seals, and an FBI agent, using M-16's. That left Cordite Feathers floating in the air. I almost closed the book on that. To my knowledge; Cordite hasn't been used in small arms ammo since WWII, and I don't think it's ever been loaded in 5.56mm. I know there's all sorts of errors in movies also.
Anyone have a favorite glaring error?


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[LoboGunLeather]

Cocking the hammer on a Glock?

Flipping off the safety of a double-action revolver?

The infamous 60mm machine gun?

A .38mm revolver (has to be pretty small)?

Probably every gap in the span of knowledge has been breached at one time or another. Oh well, there is always another book.

 

[sheepdawg]

Saw a movie the other day where the first scene had a header that said Kansas 1858. Everyone in the scene was carrying a Colt SAA.

 

[roguegamma]

Love seeing supressors on revolvers in movies.

I remember reading a book by Toni Morrison in which the following scene unfolded: in preparation for a climactic showdown a character loaded one barrel of a shotgun with buckshot, and, to make sure he got the job done, loaded the other barrel with a handful of .22 shells... this from a person who is a professor at Princeton University and a Pulitzer winner.

 

[roguegamma]

I also remember visiting my future wife at the University Of Wyoming in the mid-'90s and reading an article in the college paper about a dangerous individual prowling campus with a 45mm semi-auto handgun. Must of been a local, because I don't think any of the students from out of state could handle that kind of recoil.

 

[Rudi]

In many old WWII movies a guy will have a Thompson or BAR, but he's wearing the 10 pocket ammo belt for the M1. Same with the Germans, he'll be shooting an MP40 and wearing K98 ammo pouches. Hollywood.

 

[richardrobins93]

well if you don;t mind i would love a couple 1911 magazines that seem to hold 50 to 60 rounds each, and one of them old cowboy 6 shooters that'll fire at least 14 rounds before it need's reloading,,, and a M-16 with a thousand round plus magazine that looks to be a 20 rounder,,, i'd also like one of them old Indian stainless steel knives,

 

[Bill 76]

I have, of late, been reading spy novels; the gun related errors are too numerous to mention! Especially the noels written by Brits . . .

 

[roguegamma]

In the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" what appears to be a Python, or possibly a Diamondback, is referred to as a "Colt .45"

 

[Smoke]

I was watching The Rookie the other night and Nathan Fillion and his training officer was in a gun fight and he handed her a spare magazine. Only problem was he had an M&P and she had a Glock

 

[TX-Dennis]

I enjoy Dick Francis and more recently his son Felix. In one novel Felix had his FBI agents flip the safety levers off on their Glocks.

One of the Joe Pickett books by C J Box described Charter Arms guns as cheap junky semi-autos. Did they ever produce a pistol? I don't remember any.

Those are the two that spring immediately to mind. I rarely watch movies, so I can't really go there.

 

[Golddollar]

The "A-Team" seemed to be pretty lousy shots for an elite Army unit. Every episode they got into a gunfight where at least a hundred rounds were fired and nobody, including the bad guys got hit!

 

[roguegamma]

The "A-Team" seemed to be pretty lousy shots for an elite Army unit. Every episode they got intof a gunfight where at least a hundred rounds were fired and nobody, including the bad guys got hit!

And it seemed like they never unfolded the stocks or used the sights on those Rugers

 

[kwselke]

The "A-Team" seemed to be pretty lousy shots for an elite Army unit. Every episode they got into a gunfight where at least a hundred rounds were fired and nobody, including the bad guys got hit!

And when they actually hit a tire. it would explode and make the vehicle flip, but the bad guys would survive and give up their evil ways or be embarrassed by the Team again before the end of the episode.

 

[amazingflapjack]

Saw one the other night where they found a Claymore on some dude and everybody was uptight because They (claymores-c-4) were so "unstable."

 

[UncleEd]

Eh, so if a writer in 2019 gives his hero
a newly manufactured S&W revolver and
said hero takes a key from his pocket and
inserts it into the side of his gun to unlock
it, will that be an error?

 

[Chromedhearts]

Another book I read had an FBI agent carrying a Python in .45 Colt, and flipping the safety off.
That was actually an earlier book in a series, the same agent character flipping a Glock safety in the last book


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[Hamster65]

What really chaps my hide in movies, is seeing (and hearing) single action only guns such as 1911's, Glocks, AR's and various machine guns, keep clicking (like hammer strikes on a double action) after they run out of ammo.

Just recently, I re-watched and episode that showed a person firing a 1911 and after they fired the last shot in the magazine, the slide did not lock back and I heard about 3 or 4 additional clicks because they kept pulling the trigger.
In fact, the only thing the got right was the number of rounds it holds.

 

[Smoke]

Saw one the other night where they found a Claymore on some dude and everybody was uptight because They (claymores-c-4) were so "unstable."

Same episode. I got a kick out of the Claymore scene

 

[Muley Gil]

"... one of them old cowboy 6 shooters that'll fire at least 14 rounds before it need's reloading,,,"

I'm sorry, but all of those single actions are now gone. When they finally DID run dry, they were all thrown away!!!