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6 Stupid Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
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| April 16, 2012
| Robert Evans
Posted on 04/16/2012 8:13:34 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Hollywood wants you dead. We said it. We don't know why. We don't know what they could possibly gain from it, but it's true all the same. Hollywood has been teaching you lessons about guns for decades and decades. Hollywood wants you to build your entire understanding of guns based on the gun tropes they parade in all of their movies. Hollywood wants these gun rules ingrained so deeply in you that you apply these lessons in real life. Even though doing so will kill you.
That's right. All of the lessons Hollywood has taught you about guns are wrong.
Dead wrong.
TOPICS: Humor; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: banglist; napl
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To: driftless2
That myth about baddies getting thrown back twenty feet by a bullet might have originated with the Dirty Harry movies.
The only real video of a guy being thrown back by a shot was from Gulf War I. An Iraqi popped out of a spider hole in front of an Abrams with an RPG. The gunner just hit the firing switch, forgetting in the excitement to switch to coax. Suffice to say the guys was thrown back, as well as up and to both sides.
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:02:09 PM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: MikeSteelBe
I want one of those pump double barrel shotguns like
Moe on the Simpsons has!
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:11:03 PM PDT
by
Clay Moore
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Nathaniel
"What about the Hispanic irresistible urge/impulse to fire a handgun (usually a semi-auto) held sideways?"
Actually also done by white thugs many decades ago. The purpose was to avoid showing the profile of a revolver to bystanders in the city street semi-darkness. And only for point-shooting at close/point-blank range.
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:14:54 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: Mariner
“FBI now teaches shooting from the hip as rapidly as possible and, if possible, aiming FOR the hip of the bad guy.”
Proof? Because that would be a stupid tactic...
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:18:19 PM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(A conservative can't please a liberal unless he jumps in front of a bus or off of a cliff)
To: Mariner
"
FBI now teaches shooting from the hip as rapidly as possible and, if possible, aiming FOR the hip of the bad guy."
Which is what many of the old timers--of the few who engaged in such fights--did with their single action revolvers. Friends, don't discount a man with a sixshooter in an antiquated kind of rig.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1BwUJ4--Qw
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:26:06 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: JRandomFreeper
One thing is certainly correct.... don't try to catch a falling firearm. I was carrying my Sig P220 in a "jackass" (tm) shoulder rig one day. I'd just put it on and apparently didn't get a positive snap on the thumb-release. The gun had one in the chamber with the hammer down. The gun slipped out of the holster and fell, hammer-side down on my foot. In doing so it -cocked itself-. Fortunately I must instinctively know better than to pick it up with a finger in the guard, but when I picked it up it took a second to then notice that it had become cocked. It was frightening... And served a valuable purpose of making me -very- sure to double check the thumb release security every single time.
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:32:25 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Malone LaVeigh
To: Slings and Arrows
Yeh - my first day on the range I was devastated to learn that you had to reload the things. I thought that's what the prop men were for. What, no prop men? Cheap range.
They still look at me strangely when I blow the smoke out of the barrel and twirl the piece a few times on my finger before holstering it. I guess you're not supposed to do that with a .45. At least not with a full mag, a round chambered, and the safety off. Who knew?
To: Slings and Arrows; andyk; ApplegateRanch
Indeed. Where's ApplegateRanch? Surely he would be with us on this.
We're brothers? Who knew? But it's cool.
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posted on
04/16/2012 12:58:34 PM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
To: Slings and Arrows
Don’t forget, hiding behind a car door protects you from AK’s and other military full auto weapons.
Mac 10’s never hit anyone, and a single round from a Sig always results in a kill.
Most important, if you over power the man with the gun and he drops the gun, always stop hitting him, and never pick up the gun before you run away.
no believing in guns will protect you from people that do.
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posted on
04/16/2012 1:00:12 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(I will not vote for Romney period, and by election day you won't like him either.)
To: TheOldLady; Slings and Arrows; andyk
Too busy over here—> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2872686/posts ,when I wasn’t outside tilling up the new tater patch.
Read the comments; it’s amazing what can pass for “Conservative” these days. And some people wonder why we don’t particularly like or respect lawyers.
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posted on
04/16/2012 2:29:40 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
04/16/2012 2:29:55 PM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Malone LaVeigh
I’ve always loved that one.
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posted on
04/16/2012 2:30:32 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
To: ßuddaßudd
That’s my pet peeve with movies - the obligatory noise with chambering a round - if you watch sometimes it happens more than once. Not saying that the noise doesn’t occur in real life - more saying that the characters in the movie would probably have already had a round in the chamber.
To: Outlaw Woman
#1
Guns NEVER RUN OUT OF BULLETSI'm glad my 10 gage 3 1/2 inch magnum only holds three rounds. I've sent 45 rounds into the air after geese and ducks in a day. Hamburger shoulder that night.
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posted on
04/16/2012 2:50:53 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten; TheOldLady; Slings and Arrows
Not saying that the noise doesnt occur in real life - more saying that the characters in the movie would probably have already had a round in the chamber.If they don't, they certainly should have one in it & cocked after the third time they jack it.
Joe: "Why didn't you shoot him, when he ran?"
Moe: "I was out of ammo."
JOE: "But, you never fired it! How could you be out of ammo?"
Moe: "I had to jack the slide & put the barrel against his head every time he smart-mouthed me, to show him I was serious. By the time he ran, I was empty. Didn't even have time to cuff him; it would have interfered with the dialog."
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posted on
04/16/2012 3:07:36 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: Mr Rogers
"Proof? Because that would be a stupid tactic..."
Mr Rogers
The only proof I have is my cousin who graduated from the FBI academy reported this to me.
I suppose he could have been lying.
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posted on
04/16/2012 3:07:36 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: familyop
Friends, don't discount a man with a sixshooter in an antiquated kind of rig. Yeah, I agree with the initial point, but that kid's guns are all slicked up and short-stroke-kitted out.
To: Arkansas Toothpick
Pulling back the slide on a semi-auto or auto way more times than necessary
I think that's the most prolific, most obvious, and most deceptive of all the firearm myths.
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posted on
04/16/2012 3:45:22 PM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Juan Pablo!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Haha, nice. And please add me to your kitty ping list. :)
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posted on
04/16/2012 3:54:27 PM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Juan Pablo!)
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