After watching several cop and FBI shows this week, I noticed that the detectives always rack the slide right after drawing or going into area of conflict. I know these shows have technical advisors from their respective real agencies. Do detectives and agents usually carry in condition 3? I also noticed agent on "Criminal Minds" cocking his revolver before sweeping a house. Is this the accepted procedure? Just curious, I was taught opposite procedures C1(auto) or DAO(revolver).
TV FBI and Cops. Always carry in Condition 3?
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Shadi Khalil
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its all for effect, the noise introduces the gun into the scene.
45_Shooter
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I enjoy hearing the hammer being cocked when a Glock is unholstered on TV.
It's all for effect; cops usually carry condition 1 or 2 unless they're Barney Fife.
It's all for effect; cops usually carry condition 1 or 2 unless they're Barney Fife.
armsmaster270
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My agency carries DA Sigs with one in the pipe. Pulling back the hammer revolver or DA semi auto is generally a no no. SA auto it should be back with the safety on. Shotguns individual preference I always carried mine full magazine chamber empty hammer down safe off
orionengnr
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Ah, that would explain why people get thrown across the room when they get shot, and cars always explode when hit anywhere.
The moral is:
Believe none of what you hear, half of what you see and absolutely nothing that come out of Hollywood.
Jim Watson
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I think teifmen put it very well. I would have just said it is typical Hollywood BS. Technical advisors who really know their stuff mostly get ignored if realism gets in the way of show.
Mike in VA
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And then there's the lack of the sound of falling brass after the hero rips off a 5 shot volley from what ever autoloader he's waving around . . .
If it's on TV there's a 90+% chance that the firearm handling will be very poor/thoroughly unsafe and unrealistic. The biggest single problem I see, general sillinesss aside, is that too much of the public gets their 'gun education' from TV :barf:
If it's on TV there's a 90+% chance that the firearm handling will be very poor/thoroughly unsafe and unrealistic. The biggest single problem I see, general sillinesss aside, is that too much of the public gets their 'gun education' from TV :barf:
Technicaly advisors?
Saw a movie with Eva Longoria
as an FBI agent, in which it was explained how FBI agents are taught to "release the safety" before they drew their Sig P226's
Saw a bad guy tell Morgan Freeman to "use the F$%&%$ Glock." Trouble is, Mr. Freeman was armed with a Satin Nickel Sig P226 in that movie (Kiss the Girls).
I've seen Western heroes lever a round into their carbines after they just got done doing it.
It's true that much of the sound effects, like guns cocking, are inserted by sound techs during editing.
The topper may have been a strange movie I saw (can't remember the name) about a secret high society club that bet, essentially, on contestents (some unwilling) playing a form of Russian Roulette, where they'd look away and spin the cylinder on their revolver----with the cylinder closed!--point the revolver at another player and pull the trigger when commanded.
Better quit before I really get started on Hollywood.
Saw a movie with Eva Longoria
as an FBI agent, in which it was explained how FBI agents are taught to "release the safety" before they drew their Sig P226'sSaw a bad guy tell Morgan Freeman to "use the F$%&%$ Glock." Trouble is, Mr. Freeman was armed with a Satin Nickel Sig P226 in that movie (Kiss the Girls).
I've seen Western heroes lever a round into their carbines after they just got done doing it.
It's true that much of the sound effects, like guns cocking, are inserted by sound techs during editing.
The topper may have been a strange movie I saw (can't remember the name) about a secret high society club that bet, essentially, on contestents (some unwilling) playing a form of Russian Roulette, where they'd look away and spin the cylinder on their revolver----with the cylinder closed!--point the revolver at another player and pull the trigger when commanded.
Better quit before I really get started on Hollywood.
And if you ever get someone using a revolver, they all swing out the cylinder to make sure it's loaded, spin it, and then flick it closed. 
I watched part of the moving Commando recently. In the scene in the hotel where the character Webster and Arnold's character are fighting, Webster shoots his revolver empty after four shots. You would think an ex-Green Beret would remember to load his revolver to capacity.
I watched part of the moving Commando recently. In the scene in the hotel where the character Webster and Arnold's character are fighting, Webster shoots his revolver empty after four shots. You would think an ex-Green Beret would remember to load his revolver to capacity.
Shadi Khalil
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My first time shooting I was armed with a 2inch 357 and all the bad shooting habits I learned from watching movies. I think every time I have seen a newbie pick up a handgun they tea cup...
12GaugeShuggoth
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IMO the absolute worst for such .......Snatch. Never can get my revolvers to make that sound
Wildalaska
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Why are "adults" watching TV programs instead of doing something productive, and then compounding the misery by discussing those shows on the net
WildheytotoronicenameihaveonedoasearchonhereAlaska TM
WildheytotoronicenameihaveonedoasearchonhereAlaska TM
WildAlaska said:
One could raise the same question about participating on internet fora. Sure, we learn a thing here and there, but most of the time it is just burning time. I sometimes feel guilty after spending an hour or two here when I think of what I could have accomplished in the wood shop. Not as guilty as I do from watching TV though. That is completely lost time. I watch probably 2-3 hours in a typical week. I spend probably 2 hours per DAY here...
David Armstrong
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FWIW, many revolver cylinders can be spun with the cylinder closed.