Hollywood handgun portrayal BS

As someone here said, it’s just entertainment.
But my favorite and I saw one last night channel surfing through the network garbage, there was a police officer in tactical gear. Helmets, grenades and all kinds of stuff. He pulls out a (what appeared to be) Glock 19. Brings it up and takes a steady aim at the bad guy,,,,,
It was then I noticed that his weak hand thumb was wrapped over the back of his strong hand.
I set there just waiting for him to shoot, wonder what his thumb would have looked like after the slide hit it. Now that would have been entertainment.
The other thing that no one has brought up,,, how many of these nit wits in Hollywood have accidently killed themselves being cool and putting a gun with blanks against their head.
 
Only one that I know of who killed himself with a blank was Jon-Erik Hexum.

Terry Kath, guitarist for the band Chicago, accidentally shot himself in the head with a 9mm semi-automatic. He'd been joking around with people at a party, putting an unloaded revolver to his head and pulling the trigger. He then picked up the 9mm and removed the magazine, said, "Don't worry, it's not loaded," and put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Of course, there was a chambered round...

Brandon Lee was shot by another actor, via a combo of poor prop handling by the prop master and improper technique by the other actor. Prop master didn't notice that a bullet had worked its way out of the case of an inert cartridge (used for a camera shot looking at the "loaded" revolver from the muzzle end), and inserted a blank round behind the bullet. Actor in the scene wasn't trained to point the prop weapon away from its "target" (and let the camera make it look like it was aimed at him), and actually pointed the weapon at Lee. When the trigger was pulled, the blank generated enough pressure to propel the loose bullet at, and kill, Lee.

Doesn't mean it hasn't happened to some other actor.

Then again, a USMC Recon NCO was court-martialed a few years back for somehow allowing live ammo to get mixed with blanks during a training exercise. Another Marine was shot and killed by "blanks."

And many of us will have read about the SEAL who shot himself in front of his date, earlier this year, with an "unloaded" weapon in his home.

It isn't just Hollywood.
 
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My girlfriends P250 can be disassembled by flipping the take down lever 90*-120* forward.

I assune there's other pistols than can have the same thing happen.

I assune the one in the movie was a glock or something.
 
Terry Kath, guitarist for the band Chicago, accidentally shot himself in the head with a 9mm semi-automatic. He'd been joking around with people at a party, putting an unloaded revolver to his head and pulling the trigger. He then picked up the 9mm and removed the magazine, said, "Don't worry, it's not loaded," and put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Of course, there was a chambered round...
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I heard about that, I just think that's another example of someone ending up hurt or embarrassed because of their ignorance.

I read about a kid(Do not recall the name) who grabbed a pair of semi-automatic pistols from his dad's gun rack, brought them to school, after selling one to his bus driver for $20, showed it to a friend in class, she told him "put that away, it's dangerous." He retorted with "You don't know anything about guns, I took the magazine out, it's safe." He then shot his friend when he pulled the trigger.

Good chance this kid learned about guns on TV.
 
I am surprised that no one has mentioned that in most tv shows and movies where folks shoot off round after round off, some times in doors, and everyone automatically has perfect hearing and talks to each other in normal tones. It proves that hearing protection is not really needed when firing guns, especially inside. :)
 
One of the funniest things I ever saw was on the Rifleman show. I was watching it a few weeks ago and Lucas McCain was pinned down behind a big rock with the bad guy above him up on a rocky bluff. The bad guy (If I recall was played by Vic Morrow) had stolen Lucas' rifle and all Lucas had was a handgun he had gotten off another bad guy with no reloads. The premise of the scene was the bad guy was out of range of the Peacemaker and as Lucas squeezed off one shot then another the bad guy kept mocking him and climbing higher and soon he would be high enough so the rock would no longer protect Lucas McCain.
As the bad guy climbed higher he got more out of range of the Peacemaker. Soon Lucas was down to his last shot with no more cartridges. He picks up an old board and wedges the grips of the handgun into the front of the board. He then pokes a twig into a knothole on the rear of the board. After sighting down the board once he breaks the twig in half and carefully sights down the board, using the twig as a rear sight and reaches forward and pulls the trigger. Of course he gut shoots the bad guy, winning the day. It seemed a little ridiculous to me but maybe someone here could explain to me how that would work.
 
One of the funniest things I ever saw was on the Rifleman show. I was watching it a few weeks ago and Lucas McCain was pinned down behind a big rock with the bad guy above him up on a rocky bluff. The bad guy (If I recall was played by Vic Morrow) had stolen Lucas' rifle and all Lucas had was a handgun he had gotten off another bad guy with no reloads. The premise of the scene was the bad guy was out of range of the Peacemaker and as Lucas squeezed off one shot then another the bad guy kept mocking him and climbing higher and soon he would be high enough so the rock would no longer protect Lucas McCain.
As the bad guy climbed higher he got more out of range of the Peacemaker. Soon Lucas was down to his last shot with no more cartridges. He picks up an old board and wedges the grips of the handgun into the front of the board. He then pokes a twig into a knothole on the rear of the board. After sighting down the board once he breaks the twig in half and carefully sights down the board, using the twig as a rear sight and reaches forward and pulls the trigger. Of course he gut shoots the bad guy, winning the day. It seemed a little ridiculous to me but maybe someone here could explain to me how that would work.
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Seen it. But come on, that was Lucas McCain. All he needed was a longer sight radius.
 
Finally getting to go see Avengers with the wifey in a few minutes, I hope it's chock full of unrealistic BS. In fact I'll be really disappointed if it isn't.
 
Back in 1973 I was assigned a detail to do security where a movie starring Burt Reynolds called Shamus was being filmed. It's director Buzz Kulig invited us into his trailor to thank us for going above and beyond to assist them and I had a shot of the best scotch I've ever had, which of course was improper, but who cared. While petting the original Morris the cat in his cage, we started to talk about guns in movies and how 6 shooters fire off a dozen rounds and so on and so forth. I told him it seemed rediculous and not realistic they way guns were used. He simply told me that the majority of the people out there don't know anything about guns and don't even know what they're looking at. They make their scenes exciting and try to just entertain the audience. The few people watching their films who have knowledge regarding guns are of no importance to them. As far as Hollywood is concerned it's easy to put anything in the movies that has action and the public will be entertained. Even John Wayne's grips on his SAA was plastic.:(
 
It was then I noticed that his weak hand thumb was wrapped over the back of his strong hand.
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This is dead common among real gun owners.
Seldom an IDPA match goes by that I don't see it being done.
Most of these people don't know the advantages of a high hand hold and take such a low grip on the butt that their thumb is not struck. I haven't seen anybody cut by it more than a couple of times.
 
I laugh when I see someone put a SA only gun like a 1911 to someones head to threaten their life..I'd probably laugh in real life.

Also, Glocks or any gun with not even an option for an external manual safety..When they add a clicking sound as if the safety was removed. Ridiculous.
 
In many westerns of yore, the threatening party has his/her finger in the Colt/Remington SA triggerguard but doesn't have the hammer cocked, technically giving the other guy a chance he/she doesn't recognize (though not in the script, so they're toast!). In one episode I was actually surprised when the threatenED party mentions it - "you gotta cock the gun first..." but that was obviously part of the story and rare. As many have said, it's just entertainment, but at times gets a bit much!
 
I saw a film once where a bad guy inserts an empty magazine into a submachine gun and fires away. :eek: It was plain as day. In your face. You couldn't miss it.
 
In one old Western movie, "The Hard Hombre," starring Hoot Gibson, a woman gets mad at Gibson's character and tries to shoot him with a single action revolver. He calmly takes it away from her and says something like, "oh, with this kind, you have to cock it first."
 
In the season finale of Criminal Minds, I believe JJ pulled this stunt, grabbing the gun, hitting the mag release and then pulling the slide off the gun ... My understanding was that it used to be possible but that the guns in question have been modified to make it impossible ... looked cool tho ...
 
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