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One big movie gaff never mentioned on the forum are handcuff mistakes, even in the better motion pictures, Silence of the lambs, Dr. Lechter is handcuffed with leg irons, and the Officer does not double lock them, and he gets out of the leg irons with a bent pen ink tube, not possible since ( for example - hinge cuffs are almost impossible to get out of ) regulation cuffs are tight enough that even a paper clip is too thick and when you double lock them only Houdini would be able to escape, and not in the limited amount of time to serve a meal.
Not to mention the Officers were too distracted anyway.
U.S. Marshals with Tommy Lee Jones shows a FLEO get out of regulation handcuffs with a broken stem from sunglasses, impossible again because the lock is too darn tight to allow thick objects to be used to pick them, anything thin enough not spring steel bends too easily to effectively be used to open cuffs.
Not to mention the Officers were too distracted anyway.
U.S. Marshals with Tommy Lee Jones shows a FLEO get out of regulation handcuffs with a broken stem from sunglasses, impossible again because the lock is too darn tight to allow thick objects to be used to pick them, anything thin enough not spring steel bends too easily to effectively be used to open cuffs.
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Recoil is how you know primer ignition is complete.
TV does not do it one bit better. Today I was watching an episode of "CSY NY". The detectives are analizing their findings on a gunshot murder, when a technician enter the room, places a pocket pistol on the table, and solemnly declares "it's a 25 MILLIMETER gun" ....
I never thought that a tiny mouse gun could fire such a powerfull round. I really have to get me one of those!
One thing that can help quite a bit is which direction the key holes face. Up or down.
And yes, I have practiced, too much spare time... I could never get a paper clip to work for Me.
The double lock is hard to work with a paper clip, it will bend before you can get the slight amount of pressure needed to release the double lock.
Mind you, to activate the double lock, you can use a paper clip, but when you release the lock, it is by rotation of the key, a simple mechanism, but you can't casually hack it if you are a prisoner and properly handcuffed. If you are limber or flexible enough, and not too fat, and hide a key in a shoe or boot, you can get out of a pair of S&W cuffs, just not with imprecise stuff, simply because the lock opening of the cuffs are precisely or precision made.
something's telling me "we don't wanna know."
You are one of them.
Nope it was Robert Downey Jr.
Bingo! How many times have you seen them swing open the cylinder on a DA revolver and spin it and hear ....click, click, click, click, click, etc.... ??????
What the hell is clicking when the cylinder is spun on a DA that has the cylinder swung out?:uhm:
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Re. movie/tv gun errors, they are so numerous and rampant that we'd probably save time by posting a thread when a gun was correctly used or there wasn't an error.
I'm always a bit amused at the ubiquity of the 9mm, and particularly the Glock. Yeah, tons of LEOs carry Glock 9s these days -- probably the majority of eastern US city cops do. But the coroner or lab guy is ALWAYS saying "shot with a 9mm". I think the only show that has specifically used a different caliber is Justified, where Waylan uses a .45, occasionally you hear another caliber mentioned, but not often.
Laziness on the part of the producer/showrunner/director team, really, and not limited to firearms. There are tons of incomprehensible errors committed in tv/movies all the time, impossible coincidences, computers behaving as no computer can, and so on. The people making the movies or tv shows simply don't care enough or figure the time/cost ratio is too high to spend the time to ensure accuracy. That's showbiz.
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An otherwise fairly accurate Western movie, and a very good one, too. Except when Costner is behind the water trough and, as you say, seems to fire 15 rounds per hand.
One of the best roles Costner ever played, and naturally Robert Duvall is the master. My fave modern Westerns are "Unforgiven", "Quigley Down Under", and my fave classics are "The Shootist" and a true Hollywood epic, "The Big Country". But "Open Range" is pretty good.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx