re: Errors with firearms in TV and movies

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Bruce Willis had his Aimpoint sight on backward in Tears of the Sun

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A real SWAT officer in NY somehow put his EOTech on backwards.

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scenes where shooters unload 40 or more rounds right at vehicles but never hit tires or the protagonists

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Have ya never read the news releases on real life NYC cops?

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Collateral is another pretty good example of accurate firearm handling by characters who are supposed to be professional. (As with Heat, Collateral directed by Michael Mann who is a stickler for details like that - going all the way back to Miami Vice.)

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Just another reason why Collateral is one of the better films of the 2000s.

Tommy Lee Jones cocking the hammer w/ his thumb in No Country For Old Men right before he goes into hotel room. So he was walking around w/ a 70 series Colt 1911 with one in the chamb

I don’t think it’s unusual. Was hunting with a guy last year that had a Ruger 1911 and he had one in the chamber and put the hammer back down, extra safety precaution.

Yeah its unusual and dangerous. Your hunting buddy is an idiot. You have to depress the trigger to let the hammer down and that 70's series is even more dangerous that way than newer model 1911's. If you want to drop a hammer w/ your thumber, get a decocker pistol.

Yeah its unusual and dangerous. Your hunting buddy is an idiot. You have to depress the trigger to let the hammer down and that 70's series is even more dangerous that way than newer model 1911's. If you want to drop a hammer w/ your thumber, get a decocker pistol.

bullshite, dipshit. It’s fine to have the hammer down while chambered 1911. It’s called “inertia safety”. Putting the hammer back down is personal preference even if some consider it dangerous. Depends on the expertise of the handler. Maybe he was an expert gunsmith for all we know, but it’s not uncommon to have the hammer back on a 1911.

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There was one he uncovered and started shooting the helicopter.

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3:42 to 3:55

Ah, later he starts shooting the Barrett. Looks like it is jamming up on every shot?

Yup, just found this:

Posted to IMFDB by Weapons Coordinator Ryan Steacy:

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"I was the weapons coordinator on this film. The Barrett used was a real one firing blanks. After multiple strafing runs by the helicopter and the amount of dust and crap floating in the air from all the explosions,the gun did malfunction a few times on multiple takes. Unfortunately the way it was edited together made it seem like he was cocking it after every shot."

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I have learned to live with the cocking noise every time a Glock is pointed at someone. Kind of like when a cell phone is answered it beeps.

I enjoy the Walking Dead and pointing out the different firearms. But this season is just bad.

The tin roofing that stops bullets and the cars htat just spark when bullets hit them was over the top. I know it's the movoes and certain things happen for visual reasons, but it is out of hand. So much so that it lost its cool shoot out factor and moved into wow this is very bad kinda fake. I can see the strings tied to the space ship kinda bad