Annoying Hollywood gun errors

Ten guys with full auto weapons shooting at the A-Team and not one of them ever gets hit by a shot.

Anybody shown dropping a running bad guy from 50 yards with a single shot fired by a snub-nosed revolver. Rico Tubbs, Mannix, Barnaby Jones etc.

Guys getting shot with a 12 gage are blown backward THROUGH a wall.

Civil War era films showing Winchester 94's and Colt Peacemakers. Ditto every soldier having a handgun.
 
Lately it's been the proliferation of .22's. Seems to be the 21st century TV bad guy caliber of choice.

Recent Criminal Minds: "Well, it looks like he placed a pillow over her head to suppress the sound and put a .22 through and through her skull."
Say WHAT?!

Recent CSI Miami with a similar situation "He's carrying the .22 he used to murder her Horatio." Then the bad guy squares off and the bore on the auto is sizable, maybe a .45. Recoil, report and flash are tremendous as the bad guy goes down in a hail of bullets.
 
Hollywood has gun errors? All this time I've been using the movies for my training.......geeze!
 
Lately it's been the proliferation of .22's. Seems to be the 21st century TV bad guy caliber of choice.
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Blame it on the price of ammo going up. Even Hollywood and BG's need to watch their budget.......;):D
 
blujax01 said:
Recent CSI Miami with a similar situation "He's carrying the .22 he used to murder her Horatio." Then the bad guy squares off and the bore on the auto is sizable, maybe a .45. Recoil, report and flash are tremendous as the bad guy goes down in a hail of bullets.
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Maybe they meant Glock 22. :rolleyes:
 
StuperDan was wondering about actors in old movies carrying two guns. I have always been big on studying all the old time photographs I could find. I have seen quite a few photographs of guys carrying two c&b revolvers but seldom if ever two colt single actons. I am not talking about actors, but actual pictures up to 1900. While loading single actions is somewhat slow, loading a cap & ball aint going to happen under fire. I have read early texas rangers and the like might carry high as four plus extra loaded clyinders. Extra saddle holsters were popular.
 
It is movies and TV. The stories are just made up. They are not real. They are fiction. In real life good guys don't always wear white hats and bad guys don't always wear black hats.:D Larry
 
What aggravates me to no end is in Cowboy shows where it the year or two after the Civil War and the actors are carrying 1873 Colt SAs and Model 94 Winchesters.

There are some good westerns out there that get it right, but not many.

I just asoon go to the Circus and watch the Clowns, they are more believeable.

Rule 303
 
I recently became totally addicted to the show "24". Have seen every episode several times. Jack Bauer is a serious BA, but his gun handling skills suck. He always has his finger on the trigger, and whenever he draws his SIG or in later episodes his Springfield he always has to chamber a round.
I also noticed several times when a Glock was in the scene the trigger would be back, meaning it had been snapped on an empty chamber. Once he pulls a Glock on a Woman in custody and they show a closeup of the gun. The slide is about an inch back:eek:. Can't really figure that one out at all.
He did use the Harries Tactical Flashlight Technique rather well though.
What the heck, I guess if I was up for 24 hours I might not be real sharp either.
Jim
 
In the movie "Arizona" made in 1940 I believe with William Holden it is set in Arizona (imagine that!) 1860.

All of the actors are using period correct weapons. You will see Remington revolvers, muskets, and even a pair of Starr double-action revolvers on the main bad guy. William Holden's wife gives him a Henry rifle with a set of loading tubes which look like Spencer loading tubes.

This "correctness" of firearms continues throughout the movie...until they come to a gun-shooting scene. Then the Colt single-actions and Winchester M92s come out.

A great movie which will make you hungry for pie!
 
Check out the "Santa Fe Trail". All the heros carry Colt SAA's, nickeled, with 7.5" barrels.

Oh, the movie takes place in 1860, when John Brown laid siege to the Harper's Ferry, VA, arsenal.
 
"Doctor No"
Bond, James Bond's pistol changes from one scene to the next. The bad guy runs his 1911 empty, drops it, then picks it up and pulls the trigger 3 times(Click,Click,Click).
Then our intrepid hero says, "That a Smith & Wesson and you've had your six."
 

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The one that upsets me the most is that guns are always registered and all the cops have to do is check the database and see who bought it and go arrest them or question them.
Now think about that for a minute. We know there are only a few places in the US where that is true, Miami and Las Vegas are not one of those places.
What they have done is make the public believe that all guns are registered. If you do not believe me, ask a non shooter who knows nothing about guns if all guns are registered or should be registered and the answer will be yes.
Now, if they decide to pass a law to register guns, the non gun owning public says, aren't they already, no big deal, not a problem, good law because they have been brainwashed all these years by CSI and the like to believe it is already so.
 
In one of the Bourne movies, Jason Bourne is holding a Sig on one of the program heads while he confronts him about the past. There several are cuts in the scene. After one cut, Bourne is holding a Glock! But, in post production the Glock is blurred a little as to not stand out.
 
I was watching a Law & Order SVU, and the glock pistol made a sound just like an old Colt SAA when they cocked it. Funny how that cocking sound is used to show serious intent.
 
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