Posted on 05/17/2021 5:23:26 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
Good video from Paul Harrell. He tests how difficult it would be to shoot a knife out of someone's hand.
Given what happened in Columbus.
Paul is awesome.
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Not the movies, but the real West, Luke Short fought Jim Courtright in Fort Worth, TX, in 1887. At ‘in close’ range, Luke’s shot hit Jim’s thumb as he was cocking his pistol, preventing him from shooting. Luke continued to shoot, killing Jim Courtright.
In 1917, W.W. Pitman was a Constable in Wharton, TX, when a local troublemaker named Francisco Lopez was drunk and resisted arrest. Lopez pulled a .38 SAA and started firing at close range, but missed. Pitman got his pistol out and fired one shot which hit Lopez’s pistol. One of a kind.
No doubt they also believed it when Hopalong Cassidy threw a bag of cartridges in a campfire that exploded one by one, taking out each bad guy.
You mean Jimmy Stewart hip-firing his Colt (with what must have been a ten-inch barrel) and blowing all six wooden balls off the rim of the saloon sign in three seconds isn’t real?
Pfft, come on man, I saw it happen! :-)
The weapon we're waiting for is the one from science-fiction movies that sends a shock wave in the direction of the attacker. In the case of the cop with the ghettopotamus trying to stab her victim, the shock wave would have dropped both of them but one would wake up on a stretcher with an oxygen mask while the other woke up in handcuffs face down on the pavement.
What is required are smart bullets, except some early versions might be expected to occasionally take out dental work.
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