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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
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To: Slings and Arrows
So no matter what you do, that double-barreled shotgun is only hitting one dude at a time. Or, like, three bees, maybe. Double Barreled shotguns are great....for the sporting clay range.
At close range, give me a 12 ga, .00 buck on full choke.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:26:19 AM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(The Republican Party is bigger than the presidency)
To: Slings and Arrows
Here’s another one: being able to hear anything after multiple shots (without ear protection) in a room.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:27:07 AM PDT
by
2nd Bn, 11th Mar
(The "p" in Democrat stands for patriotism.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
"I tried this one time at the range and I can honestly say that I have no idea where the bullet went. It didn't even hit the paper. " It does look a whole lot more like a gangsta movie move, and that's what counts in a gun fight, isn't it?
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:28:05 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
(Can we afford as much government as welfare-addicted voters demand?)
To: andyk
Me too, but we seem to be in the minority.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:28:42 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: GonzoGOP
you don’t have to drop it, just press the lever on the left side. bang
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:29:32 AM PDT
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: Nathaniel; Malone LaVeigh
Probably cover those in the sequel.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:30:17 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows; andyk
No, me too. And I loved the clips as well.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:33:15 AM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
To: Jewbacca
6. Bullets knock people downNot only that, they can knock people back through the air 10-20 ft ... through a window, even. According to Hollywood, anyway.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:40:15 AM PDT
by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: Arkansas Toothpick
-Shooting off a lock on a door (possible, I guess, but probably not as easy as Hollywood makes it look)
That was probably the only "Gun Myth" that the Mythbusters confirmed. One round from a .357 and a deadbolt lock was sufficiently damaged that a kick popped it right out of the door. Shotguns worked even better for door breaching.
Note that it wasn't the lock that gave way, it was the wood where the lock was attached. Hitting the lock with a good sized hammer would probably have a similar effect.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:49:05 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Slings and Arrows
LOL!!! Who in their right mind would believe anything they see in a movie?! Its fiction! In some circles its even considered entertainment. Perhaps this is more a case of gullible movie goers.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:51:39 AM PDT
by
556x45
To: Jewbacca
Thanks for listing!
Another one: when a handgun is moved or pointed somewhere or at someone, it always makes a “click,” even if it was already loaded; especially if the moment is tense, then the handgun will mysteriously make a very loud click.
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posted on
04/16/2012 9:59:26 AM PDT
by
Stat-boy
To: MikeSteelBe
I like how pistols make a cocking sound when pulled from their holsters...Or the sequence of clicking sounds as every safety is taken off. The situation isn't serious until you hear those sounds.
This replaces the mandatory manual cocking of a double-action revolver from the early days, when only DA revolvers were used. You could have the muzzle stuck in your ear, but only when you saw and heard it being cocked did you have to start worrying.
And nobody replicates the loud, distinctive sound the of "AK clack", the sound of an AK47 safety being deactivated. Assuming the shooter realizes in the first place that an AK47 even has a safety.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:14:01 AM PDT
by
300winmag
(Overkill Never Fails)
To: Arkansas Toothpick
I remember seeing a spoof of the old commercial where they shoot a lock with a high powered rifle and then showed it still staying locked afterword.
The commercial started out the same, guy loading the gun, crosshairs on the lock, but when he fired the lock just disintegrated all over the place. The screen then showed “Sorry boys, this time it was a Weatherby” and the guy was holding a nice Mark V magnum with a smile.
I figured out how they did it, they hung the lock on a steel plate target instead of wood like the original commercial, the bullet splash is what tore the hell out of the lock.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:31:39 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg
To: Slings and Arrows
They missed the easiest one, which is also a part of the Four Rules for Firearm Safety... and the one tiny way that Hollywood has been HELPFUL to Firearm Safety:
"Treat every gun as if it is loaded". According to Hollywood, every gun is always loaded, every gun fires between 23 and 700 bullets before needing to be re-loaded (if it is ever re-loaded at all).
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posted on
04/16/2012 11:04:30 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
To: al_c
"Hollywood"
That myth about baddies getting thrown back twenty feet by a bullet might have originated with the Dirty Harry movies. Everyone remembers the final scene where Clint shoots Andy Robinson, and Robinson is knocked back twenty feet into a creek. Also in some John Wayne movies like El Dorado (?) from the sixties, George Plimpton was knocked back twenty feet by a blast from a shotgun. But ff you watch most cop tv shows and movies from before the seventies, most baddies when hit by a bullet simply drop where they are.
To: TheOldLady; andyk
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
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posted on
04/16/2012 11:27:45 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Jewbacca
#1
Guns NEVER RUN OUT OF BULLETS
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posted on
04/16/2012 11:32:35 AM PDT
by
Outlaw Woman
(The biggest Hate group in America is located in the White House, Congress & DOJ)
To: Nathaniel
They copied that from the “Amish” in American gangbanger films. Until recently, most Latino thugs knew how to hold their firearms straight.
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posted on
04/16/2012 11:36:22 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
To: GonzoGOP
Before the seventies they dropped, but the never bled.
Today, they bleed a couple gallons.
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posted on
04/16/2012 11:51:02 AM PDT
by
CharacterCounts
(A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
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