FR Gun Club: Stupid Gun Mistakes EVERY Writer Makes

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[mnehring]

The term “clips” for automatics instead of magazine. (FYI, it is a legit term for revolvers which use ‘moon clips’ as a type of speed loader.)

[domenad]

Never aim for the head? Really? Is a center hit certain to cause a fatality? I know that’s true for swordplay, but for a bullet?

[Hazwaste]

Well, when an automatic has fired its last cartridge the slide atop the action locks back. They would both know the gun was empty.

Not entirely correct. My Kel-Tec P3-AT does not lock back after the last round.

[mnehring]

How about a sniper pulling a scope out of a case and slapping it on a gun he never touched and being able to take out a target hundreds of yards away, no sighting, no alignment, etc.

[Hazwaste]

So, over a long distance you want to have your crosshairs above the target.

Not if you've zeroed the scope to the correct distance.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

THE SILENCED REVOLVER

In the otherwise entertaining 1958 movie The Lineup, the hitman played by Eli Wallach wielded a revolver with a silencer. But in Hollywood revolvers with silencers work!

[TalonDJ]

of actually aiming. In fact, when they do this their eyes aren't even looking at the site but at their victim

How about when the author uses 'site' instead of 'sight' or 'sights' or 'sight picture'.

[ontap]

Two in the chest,two to the head ,two more to the chest. Least wise that ‘s what I was taught.

[messierhunter]

The sound of a hammer being cocked back as the person draws a glock from the holster, and no, they didn’t even rack the slide.

[o_zarkman44]

The gun grabbers cling to the dramatic uses of firearms.

Hence the assult weapon effect. bad people have bad guns so good people must have the bad guns the bad people want.

[Uncle Ike]

1) The most cliche’d firearm abuse in movies and tv — the 20-shot revolver - which has morphed into the 200-shot UZI...

2) All those times a cowboy takes his Colt Army Cap ‘n Ball revolver out, and opens the loading gate to check his bullets.... (Yes, I know that it was common to convert cap&ball pistols to accept cartridges, but I’ve never heard of any of those conversions that incorporated a loading gate)

[WayneS]

I was surprised that one was not on the list. That one bothers me more than ANY other single “gaffe” made during discussions about guns.

[TalonDJ]

THE SILENCED REVOLVER
Can work if the cylinder gap is very tight. Of course then it would foul before long.

[antiRepublicrat]

So, over a long distance you want to have your crosshairs above the target.

Don't some scopes have range adjustments that would put the crosshairs on the target?

[agere_contra]

How about a man - an apparent suicide thought to have shot himself in the mouth - found dead in a public park with almost no bleeding at the scene. And a perfectly clean gun, no blowback from the shot.

Ah but wait, the FBI say that that really happened. Silly me.

[Uncle Miltie]

My favorite is when they call a shotgun a “rifle”.

[mnehring]

Speaking of gun grabbers, how about ‘semi-automatics’ being described as ‘machine guns’ by politicians.

[allmendream]

Almost all bullets fired in anger are misses.

SOP is a double tap to center body mass. It is what the pro’s are trained to do.

[TalonDJ]

My fav is dual wielding by people that are suppose to be professionals.