If you want to see a bunch of firearm myths "in action" just turn on your tv or watch about any movie where guns are used. There are a very few "truths" shown, here and there, but most it is BS.
To be fair, how many of said movies and TV shows are portrayed in an accurate, realistic fashion otherwise, how many of them set out to be accurate/realistic, and how many of them pride themselves on their accurate depiction of firearms?
It's one thing to call out Anchormen, Reporters, and Journalists in general for inaccurate information regarding firearms, but cinema is meant to entertain, and seldom does it ever attempt to be 100% true-to-life in all aspects, so unless it is marketed for being specifically accurate to firearms, it seems silly to call it out for being inaccurate.
Don't get me wrong, it's one thing to have a good laugh over something like in Season 1 of Chicago P.D. when they find some green tip .223 ammo which they refer to as "Cop Killers" and then have a scene in which said ammo pierced through a TV, the brick wall of an apartment building, a fire hydrant, then came to rest inside the engine block of a delivery truck down the street. Because that show is at least going for some degree of realism. But most of the movies and TV shows in which firearms are featured are things like Action, Sci-Fi, or Horror genre which obviously aren't trying to be realistic, ergo it's ridiculous to complain that firearms aren't depicted realistically in most movies/TV shows.
In fact, it's kind of a buzz-kill sometimes. Like, I used to be a regular on a forum (you'll never guess which one) in which a lot of the regulars would complain endlessly about the unrealistic depiction of the performance of the Walther PPK in the James Bond films, as if a series of films about a Secret Agent who saves the world from total domination, economic disaster, or complete devastation with the use of high-tech gadgetry was ever meant to be taken that seriously.
This would have been around 1953 when he was a Sailor.
