TV doesn't know much

[noylj]

Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter:
Someone shoots up an apartment building and a woman in a car is killed.
Kenya arrives and mentions all the bullet holes and "shell casings" laying all over the parking lot.
Since some of the bullets went through several walls, it must have been a high power rifle--either full-auto or semi.
Then, we find out that the shooter was across the street (about 100 yards away) and they could find no "shell casings"--so the shooter must have been in a car.
Since it was a high powered rifle, it must be an AK-47, and, since they are known to be inaccurate, that would explain why the whole side of the apartment building was shot up--from 100 yards away, across the street.
Q: was the parking lot littered with "shell casings" as was stated or were all the "shell casings" in the shooter's car?
Can they even TRY to keep the story consistent?

In another show, the victim was killed by four different .22 LR guns (I assume because there were four different types of .22 cases found and NOBODY would EVER mix ammunition in a gun.
They then show a picture of the four types of bullets found:
1) FMJ-RN that looked like a 9mm MAK (single radius squatty bullet)
2) powder-coated bullet
3) cast lead bullet
4) JHP
All from .22 LR.

 

[MichiganScott]

Just figured that out, did you?

 

[BC38]

...and this is news?

 

[noylj]

No, the point I guess is that I have watched these shows for years, and over the last three years they have just gotten worse and worse to the point that I am having problems from laughing so much.
I mean, they are getting the point where they are going to lose viewers from death by laughing.

 

[RobertJ.]

I think most of us here could make pretty long lists concerning the inaccuracy of TV and firearms!

One of my favorites was in a movie my wife was watching, I think it was on Lifetime. Someone dropped a S&W revolver (it looked like a Model 10) down a flight of stairs. It fired every time it hit a step!

 

[JBnTx]

TV is dangerous, in so many ways.
They should come with warning stickers.

Warning: Watching this TV may cause harm to your physical, financial and mental health.


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[rog8732]

Most recently I followed a written story,( currently a very big deal in Chi-Town). Seems the policeman shot someone SIXTEEN times with his service REVOLVER......Oh yeah, "and he was going to reload, but was stopped by his partner" !
Must have been one of those special revolvers they issue only for lawing.

 

[MichiganScott]

My favorite recently is when someone draws a Glock you hear the non-existent hammer being cocked. It sounds suspiciously like a S&W revolver.

 

[fredj338]

My wife laughs at me because I catch all the gun fopah in a show of movie. For us it's annoying but the avg joe/Jane watching has no idea.

 

[OKFC05]

I reviewed a popular novel for the local Wed book review club at the library, and wound up writing TWO different reviews.
The first was for the people who liked exciting stories, but knew nothing about guns, physics, chemistry, or biology. The book was slick, with every chapter ending a cliffhanger, exciting action scenes, etc.

The second was for the people who knew guns, physics, chemistry, and biology, and liked technical realism. It was longer, and listed every example of the technical absurdities in the novel that any qualified person would catch, concluding with the overall assessment that, "This is another hack book written by a formula author who obviously has no technical knowledge, and not enough ambition to do good research from those that know. He should find a subject for which he has actual knowledge beyond watching the Sunday Night Movie on television."

The person who ran the program said she now understood why so many men only attended her programs once, and much to her credit, made it a point to find good authors who lived in the area and wrote quality books about Oklahoma people and history, including quality researched novels.

Sometimes you find someone who cares about their program, but television? Not so much.

 

[Ceapea]

My favorite recently is when someone draws a Glock you hear the non-existent hammer being cocked. It sounds suspiciously like a S&W revolver.

That, or you hear a "slide racking" sound, any time a pistol is removed from, then brought back into view of the camera. In some scenes, the pistol is shown so many times, that the magazine would be empty by the time they found who they were looking for.

 

[gwpercle]

Josh Randall ( Steve McQueen) Wanted Dead or Alive old TV western ...always wondered why he had those 45-70 rounds in his belt. The "Mare's Leg" was a cut down 92 Winchester...no way those 45-70's would fit into a chamber designed for short 32-20 , 38-40 , or 44-40 , length cartridges.
This was about 1959 , I was 10 years old , had experience with Dad's , Uncle's and older cousin's Winchester rifles ( the 32-20 model 92 my favorite) that's when I realized TV was far from accurate...to this day I enjoy watching for the guns and ammo faux pas that are made.

The newer the TV show, it seems the more ridiculous the mistakes, inaccuracies and assumptions are...looking for error's isn't fun any more. Now I look for accuracy and correctness in a show. One that impressed me was Open Range, the arms , holster's , gun belts and use of them was surprisingly correct or at least there were no make you "laugh out loud" scenes .
Gary

 

[Inusuit]

I love it when the crime scene people can tell the cartridge from the wound. "Looks he was shot with a nine!" Which usually turns out to be a Glock. I think they only come in "nine" and "foutay."

I was impressed with an episode from the first season of Blue Bloods starring Tom Selleck as Police Commissioner Frank Regean. A bad guy is attacking Selleck's daughter, the Assistant District Attorney. Frank arrives on the scene, draws his revolver (looks like a Fitzed Colt DS). He says "Get your hands off my daughter!" The guy, holding a knife to Erin's throat, turns toward Frank who promptly shoots him in the head. No discussion, no standoff, just the right damn thing to do. The guns on the show are interesting. I'd swear they took an H&K P7 off a bad guy. Lots of Glocks. Frank's son Danny is an NYPD detective. Some scenes it looks like he's using a Smith semi-auto and others it looks like maybe a Kahr .45? I don't watch much TV, but this is a pretty good series on NetFlix.

 

[bedbugbilly]

Why would you expect anything any different? Hollywood is so far left that all they know is "guns are bad and nobody should have them".

 

[reddog81]

My favorite recently is when someone draws a Glock you hear the non-existent hammer being cocked. It sounds suspiciously like a S&W revolver.

Or the sound of a slide racking when someone draws a revolver.

 

[Gripgrabber]

Watch JOE Kenda put his 1911 in his shoulder holster at the beginning of the show, it's cocked with the thumb safety off! I would stand behind him much!

 

[rog8732]

I was impressed with an episode from the first season of Blue Bloods starring Tom Selleck

Danny is an NYPD detective. Some scenes it looks like he's using a Smith semi-auto and others it looks like maybe a Kahr .45? I don't watch much TV, but this is a pretty good series on NetFlix.

I have liked this show from the beginning, as well as most everything Selleck has done.
As for "Danny"; (Donnie Walberg); while brother Mark has a far bigger career, I think Donnie may have paid more attention in acting class.

As to his "gun-handlin", he seems very adept, and I have noticed several times he has switched to "weak-hand" as necessary when edging around a barricade. Be my guess the real cops are taught that move.

 

[vytoland]

tv and ALL other news = conjecture and innuendo...........but it's gluten free, organic, anti aging and perfect, so ask your doctor for it and HAVE A NICE DAY!!!

 

[Inusuit]

I have liked this show from the beginning, as well as most everything Selleck has done.
As for "Danny"; (Donnie Walberg); while brother Mark has a far bigger career, I think Donnie may have paid more attention in acting class.

As to his "gun-handlin", he seems very adept, and I have noticed several times he has switched to "weak-hand" as necessary when edging around a barricade. Be my guess the real cops are taught that move.

Maybe some of the firearms realism on Blue Bloods is due to Selleck being a gun guy. I recall him getting into it with Rosie O'Donnell about gun control. He was calm, reasoned, and well informed while she was a raging, well, rhymes with witch.

 

[noylj]

>I love it when the crime scene people can tell the cartridge from the wound. "Looks he was shot with a nine!"

Again, I "understand" the fiction shows are a joke, but I don't understand why the shows telling about real crimes can't be more accurate and why they are getting less and less accurate.

Crime show scenes I have seen are:
Longmire: It's a large wound, had to be a .45, long range shot, had to be a .45-70, accurate shot, well, there are no modern .45-70s so it had to be an old Sharpes sniper rifle, go check out anyone who bought an old Sharps in the last year.
Some unknown shows: that bullet' is too small to be a .38, so it is 9mm. Looks like it was fired from a Glock...
That's a .38. Must have been fired by a cop...
CSI: I ran the metal through the FTIR and determined the alloy. Note: FTIR does infrared analysis and works mostly on organic material. You would use X-ray fluorescence, usually as part of an electron microscope, for metal analysis (though there are other means, but X-ray is none destructive).