Ever notice how they always throw away the gun in a movie?

Lamberto (Demons) Bava's Blastfighter was an Italian made exploitationer made in the wake of the intitial First Blood film. Cop disgraced by the Mob that murdered his wife returns home to a rural town and runs afoul of homicidal poacher types. When his daughter is killed by these fiends, the guy hauls out a SPAS tricked out with Hollywood style high tech sighting and targeting gear and equipped with a wide variety of rounds (the usual = explosive, smoke, slug, flechette, shot, etc etc etc) and whoops a$$. But by the time the final stuntman has hit the ground, our hero begins repeatedly slamming his shotgun broadside against a tree. Huh?
Jeff
 
My favorite is when the good guy is running around with out a round in the chamber, and has to dramatically pull the slide back/slam a round into the shotgun, etc. For a good (or is that bad?) example of this, see the scene in the X-Men where Magneto turns all of the police officers guns around to point at them, and then has to put them all into condition 1.
 
Saw an article on movie guns a while back. Often when there's a scene requiring them to throw a gun, an identical non-firing or even a rubber gun is substituted so as not to damage the firing gun. Hope that makes you feel better.
Did any of you see the guns that went up for sale last year when one of the ,ajor prop companies folded and sold their stocks off? Talk about pre-bans for sale! of course, most had to be converted back from being adapted for firing blanks, but still...
it's always pissed me off that guns intended for use in dramatic productions are exempt from the various legislation. Like the movies NEED an unfettered access to all those evil features to ensure they can continue to spread misinformation about guns and their owners!
 
LASur5r: Speaking of stuffing guns into the waistband, there's this scene in "I'm Gonna Get You, Sucker!" where the good guys load up before the battle; One guy stuffs about fifty pounds of guns into his clothing, trips, hits the floor and they all go off, reducing him to hamburger. I nearly died laughing!

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Brett That was ISaac hayes in "Sucker" and if you remember he survived because the bullets missed all his vital organ
 
In "Blue in the Face," indie director Jim Jarmusch wondered why bad guys throw away there guns. He said something along the lines of "Can't they reload? Guns are expensive!" He also made some amusing comments about the way Nazis smoke cigarettes in old war films.
---hemlock0013
 
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