5 ridiculous gun myths everyone believes thanks to movies

[Chuck]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5- ... es_p2.html

Good for a laugh

Here's the one for the police for the same reasons

http://www.cracked.com/article_18385_7- ... ecommended

[Watcher]

The one that always made me laugh (a bit) was a movie (can't remember which) when the baddie shot the goody at a distance of about ten feet from his right hand side with a three inch .357 magnum revolver. Luckily the bullet only hit him in the upper arm and the goody was thereby able to bravely continue the fight and ultimately triumph. The reality, of course, would have been that the bullet would have passed through his arm, his chest, his other arm and have buried itself in the wall!

[Chuck]

LOL and all highly trained assassins and Special Forces rsort to throwing the gun away cos they don't know any stoppage drills.

10 shot revolvers are my favourite, and the poorly made rounds sprayed from an MP5 or an Uzi at point blank range that never hit anything.....yet a single pistol shot from 100 yards one handed ALWAYS hits the mark first time.

Oh yes, and a 20mm cannon round from an FW190 or ME109 in WW2 movies never rips off an arm or leg, only a straight through hit!

And WHY do bonnets always fly up wiyh an accompanying explosion.

And why do cops leap out their car - which affords protection - to hide behind a door - which has no protection - in order to enage a baddie with an AK47 or whatever standing in the middle of a road.

[Sim G]

10 shot revolvers are my favourite,

Smith & Wesson make 7, 8 and 10 shot revolvers. Harrington & Richardson made a 9 shot. And US Firearms make a 12 shot revolver!

[Chuck]

Sim LOL, did Colt or Remmington make them in 1895?..... and were they ever made in 357mag, 38spl, 44 etc..you know, like cops use. I know that you can get .22 revolvers with more than six

[Harrier1980]

I know we live in a firearm depraved country, but are pump action shotguns generally semi or automatic?

[Sim G]

I know we live in a firearm depraved country, but are pump action shotguns generally semi or automatic?

Pump or sometimes refered to as slide action shotguns are a type in their own right. Semi automatic and fully automatic are two additional and separate types of actions.

[Blackstuff]

Speaking of which movie myth - a pump-action shotgun is somehow more powerful than any other type of shotgun! Sadly this has actually influenced some governments policy :roll:

[Chuck]

blackstuff, funny you should say that. Turkland tele makes a big hype out of any incident where a PUMP ACTION was used, BIG headlines, flash images, the whole score...

Seems they are almost thermonuclear.

As for influencing government policy, some idiot hiogh up was told a Glock was invisible and when one was used in a gangland killing the twerpland government banned them. A few that were already sold were recalled. When you tell them you have actually shot a Glock and owned a moderated "sniper rifle" they reckon you are a serious dude!

There is one movie where the lass pulls a Walther P99 and the bloke reveres it as "WOW A WALTHER P99....that's serious firepower, you know your guns! or words to that effect. Sadly Mrs T's P99 just shoots bog standard 9mm................ as yet no mushroom clouds have arisen. It also only shopopts 16 rounds from the 15+ 1 loaded, no matter how I try.

[Harrier1980]

I know we live in a firearm depraved country, but are pump action shotguns generally semi or automatic?

Pump or sometimes refered to as slide action shotguns are a type in their own right. Semi automatic and fully automatic are two additional and separate types of actions.

That is what I thought really, the featured site was making a big thing about pumping it and ejecting a good shell, I thought surely that is not right unless it is semi or auto as well.

I also thought that not all autos lock open when empty (?), so you would have to pull the slider to put one in the spout.