One armed sailor suited gatling gun girl.
Posted on 03/03/2009 8:55:16 AM PST by yankeedame
#1: Rose McGowan’s M203 from Planet Terror
You are a nuttier gun nut than me if you think a stripper with an M203 prosthetic leg is either hot or cool. It’s just dumb. Also, I realize this is science fiction/fantasy but how does she pull the trigger? Unquestionably, this is the stupidest gun in movie history.
#2: Arnold’s Rail Guns from Eraser
Railguns exist now as experimental weapons; the Navy hopes to have shipboard versions some day. Railguns create an electromagnetic field on two rails. A conductive projectile completes the circuit, and something called a Lorentz Force sends it off the rails at incredibly high speed. The railguns in Eraser are supposed to shoot their aluminum bullets at nearly the speed of light. That means: a.) recoil would be fatal to the shooter and b.) air resistance would ignite the bullet almost immediately. And yet, Arnold is able to shoot one with each hand. Bonus: check out the nifty X-Ray scope.
#3: Jesse Ventura’s Minigun in Predator As a member of the commando team in Predator, Jesse Ventura humps a 7.62 caliber minigun around the jungle. Besides the problem of hauling enough ammunition to feed a gun that shoots 166 rounds a second, and the difficulty/impossibility of controlling such a gun by hand, there is also the issue of the king of all hot feet you would get from the cascade of smoking empties. Finally, it takes two truck batteries to run the thing. The filmmakers ran a cable under the actor’s pants leg to off-camera batteries to power the minigun motor.
#4: Clint Eastwood’s Harpoon Gun in The Dead Pool
What to do when the bad guy steals your .44 magnum? Simple. Take a nearby harpoon gun off its deck stanchion and shoot it from the hip. Never mind that in real life, the recoil of shooting a harpoon weighing several pounds would knock you down and maybe break some bones. But, because this is a movie, all that happens is Harry delivers the worst catchphrase of the series (English translation: “You’re s*** outta luck.”) then impales the villain, recovers his piece and coolly walks away.
#5: Steve McQueen’s Mare’s Leg from Wanted: Dead or Alive
If you’re a few years older than me, you might have owned a cap gun version of the Mare’s Leg from Wanted Dead or Alive (1958-1961). Today, if you must, you can buy firing replicas of Steve McQueen’s cut-down Winchester Model 92. Besides the recoil of such a gun and the pointlessness of turning a rifle into a pistol, the real reason the Mare’s Leg makes the list is, the gun and ammo don’t match. The rifle is a .44-40, but the small cartridges didn’t look impressive enough in the gun belt on camera, so McQueen wore .45-70 shells instead.
One armed sailor suited gatling gun girl.
The article was limited to movies people have actually seen.
She’s a butterface anyway.
Let's have some accuracy here. That's "catholic school" gatling gun girl
OK, you gotta give the rail gun and the minigun some huge style points, though! The others are definitely retarded.
Colt and Remington (at least) offered various revolver models thourghout the late 1800 with buttstocks. Later both the Luger and Browning Hi-Power semiautomatic pistols were offered with detachable buttstocks. Here's a picture of a Hi-Power so outfitted. Note the long range "tangent" sight.
Didn’t Our Man Flint (or maybe In Like Flint) have a selective fire gun that would shoot either forwards or backwards, depending on which way you pulled (or pushed!) the trigger?
they should have gotten Heather Mills instead of Rose McGowan. You know, type casting?
Biggest kick was finding the old Colt my grandfather got fired over, a gun that has only ever failed to fire twice, both times in an actor's hands before running cameras. Yeah, that gun wouldn't go off half cocked.. Worked out in the end though, the producer who regrettably fired him after the prima-donna actor refused to listen about pulling the hammer /all/ the way back demanded him off the set, kept using him for other projects, just enough that he and his wife were set for retirement and their very enjoyable last days at the Hollywood Home.
I don’t know, I have never seen that movie.
How about Kevin Kostner’s 26 shooter in “Open Range”?
Ha! Loved that movie, loved the scene where he was given that gun then the coup de gras when he fired it......LOL!
No, Check the necktie/ neckline. That’s “sailor fuku”, a typical Japanese Schoolgirl outfit. . .
Very nice ... couple of Lugers and a broomhandle Mauser. The stocks in your second picture may double as cases for the pistol.
Who cares? They are very entertaining. These are movies fer crissakes. Maybe next we’ll have an article about weapons inaccuracies in Star Trek. “Everyone knows that a phaser has to have a bigger battery than fits in the current handle in the movies.”
yes McQueens Maresleg is available as a pistol, today. Just don’t cut down a model ‘92 rifle or carbine to make one as the feds will bust you......
the original .44-40 caliber was not a high recoiling round. it was used in the Colt SAA (peacemaker if you will)
along with a number of other pistol style, rifle calibers. As I kid we knew that those weren’t the rounds on his belt for his mare’s leg but for his 1886 winchester kept in a saddle scabbard.
McClane: That punk pulled a GLOCK 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than you make here in a month.
heheh.. A Glock 7. :-)
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