Gun goofs on TV

[Mitch10mm]

That's awesome! I guess my biggest issue is because my friend that just got into guns. Recently married looking to be man of the house and protector. He got his LTCF and has been carrying. Now if the horrible were to happen, nothing can prepare a person for it but on top of it the expectation that a single shot is going to stop the threat.

We debate caliber and carrying +1 and all sorts of factors even what to do after successful defending ourselves. With that video I had a struggle convincing him it was real and many times people just don't drop. It's like boxing, I know a lot of young guys that would land a great punch and then stop to admire what they thought was going to be a knock out.

[Mitch10mm]

Seriously interesting work. You've got to have a lot of cool stories. Please share

[alpacaheat]

Saw three goofs in two shows of Homicide Hunter (Lt Kenda). One show was an "explanation" that .380 and 9mm are interchangeable. Another was ( I would love to know how they did this) a guy shooting an AK (biker bar incident), with the selector and bolt handle on the left side, and finally, at the end...camera segs away from a semi-auto pistol as the narrator calls it a .380 revolver. Juxtaposed against old blue eyes who warns he is perfect at getting killers, it enters the realm of humorous.

Taurus does make a .380 revolver.

That show sounds stupid. I'll avoid it. Thanks.

[Marcus99]

I nominate the prop master on the set of The Crow for Best Gun Goof award.

oh man that's just brutal hahaha

[Marcus99]

I was at a training one time, actually it was a body armor demonstration held for LEO's. Basically they strapped a vest to a dummy made of clay to demonstrate the amount of indentation that would be received into the body from the armor stopping the bullet. Before it even started the instructor told everyone to pay attention to the movement (or lack thereof) of the dummy to sort of prove the myth that handguns do not generally knock people down, and also that you can stay in the fight even if you are hit. Even on the bigger magnum handgun calibers the dummy never moved. The instructor was a former LEO who had actually been wounded in the line of duty so I trust that he knew what he was talking about. It's also pretty incredible what some of these modern vest can endure 5.7(non-armor piercing) and even 500SW they never pierced the vest, but they did "bulge" the vest enough to create a significant burn and body indentation.

[GunLawyer001]

I nominate the prop master on the set of The Crow for Best Gun Goof award.

Sadly, at best it's a tie with the prop master on the TV series "Cover Up", who supplied the gun to Jon Erik Hexum.

Runner-up would be the chopper pilot for the "Twilight Zone" movie.

[Gman106]

I nominate the prop master on the set of The Crow for Best Gun Goof award.

Sadly, at best it's a tie with the prop master on the TV series "Cover Up", who supplied the gun to Jon Erik Hexum.

Runner-up would be the chopper pilot for the "Twilight Zone" movie.

Could be all of them if Price-Waterhouse has anything to do with it! Also, upon further reflection, perhaps it should be Worst Gun Goof award.

[Bang]

Watching Homicide Hunter on demand. Tonight we have a 44 magnum rifle. Lt. Kenda calls it a 44 magnum carbine, a very unusual weapon. (!) All this based upon a brass case found at the shooting scene. Hmmm...he started out as a sergeant at the beginning, but answers his portable as Corporal Kenda while wearing sergeant's bars on his collar. Now I feel better.

Aha! At the end they get the bad guy, with his S&W .44 Magnum revolver.

[streaker69]

Watching Walking Tall part II tonight, during the chase between Buford and Pinky, several times Pinky was firing at Buford with a semi-auto in lockback.

[Bang]

These producers get big bucks. Can you imagine if they had a position of importance?