What are your movie pet peeves re: guns?

[Jumping Frog]

OK, I thought I'd like to get some lighthearted gun discussion going. What are some of your pet peeves over the way guns are depicted in movies or TV.

I'll start off with a few, you can go from there:

1. The super-loaded gun: shooting 25 times with a J-frame revolver without reloading.

2. Cops and military characters with fingers in the trigger guards. This one tells me the actor has had no training, hasn't bothered to have been told, and isn't a firearms shooter.

3. Cocking a Glock.

4. Racking the slide in the middle of an extended gunfight to show, "now I am REALLY serious".

5. Shows like NCIS tapping into some database to check gun registrations in states without registration.

6. Suspension of Newton's 3rd Law: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.". Guy gets shot by .45ACP handgun, flies backwards 25 feet and through a giant piece of industrial plate glass.

What are your peeves?

[AEA]

Slides not moving when gun is fired.

Different gun in same scene. Obviously they had a partial scene at the end of a workday and continued it the next day and the "hero" had a totally different gun than the previous portion of the scene.

External hammers not moving while shooting.

[WildBill]

OK, I thought I'd like to get some lighthearted gun discussion going. What are some of your pet peeves over the way guns are depicted in movies or TV.

I'll start off with a few, you can go from there:

1. The super-loaded gun: shooting 25 times with a J-frame revolver without reloading.

2. Cops and military characters with fingers in the trigger guards. This one tells me the actor has had no training, hasn't bothered to have been told, and isn't a firearms shooter.

3. Cocking a Glock.

4. Racking the slide in the middle of an extended gunfight to show, "now I am REALLY serious".

5. Shows like NCIS tapping into some database to check gun registrations in states without registration.

6. Suspension of Newton's 3rd Law: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.". Guy gets shot by .45ACP handgun, flies backwards 25 feet and through a giant piece of industrial plate glass.

What are your peeves?

How about, all of the above? Actually No. 2 doesn't bother me too much.

[Dave2]

5. Shows like NCIS tapping into some database to check gun registrations in states without registration.

If they'd say "sold to" instead of "registered to", I'd have way less of an issue with this one.

[ryanr1299]

The continuity issue is my biggest peeve, I was just watching a current show recently that showed a guy on the deck of a ship carrying a Glock. He then went through one of the doors to go inside, and the magical door transformed his Glock into a Beretta.

[Pug]

What are your peeves?

7. Bullets cause everything to explode.

8. Vehicle doors, couches and coffee tables are a safe place to hide to avoid the BG's rounds.

[Weg]

Mini-14 was never able to kill anyone in the A-team TV series?

[TLE2]

Sorry, I gleefully suspend disbelief.

[74novaman]

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who used a 1911 in a movie has to, at some point, aim it at someones head, then cock it menacingly.

I know you CAN drop a hammer on a live round in a 1911 if you're very careful, but no one ever does it because it is an unsafe, unnecessary thing to do.

Just gets on my nerves. Or the revolver cocking noise any time anyone so much as looks at a gun, or picks it up.

Those are the 2 that pop to mind instantly anyway.

[Scott in Houston]

Was watching "The Walking Dead" series (good series... fun to watch http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)
The main character, who they are trying to show as a real gun-guy and knows his weapons (based on comments he makes throughout the series, at one point tells a fellow cop with a Glock to focus and make sure the safety is off.

i also hate when bullets spark on something metal, but leave no mark, hole, or indentation in that metal.

Occasionally, I've seen movies where they show the bullet in flight... WITH THE FREAKING BRASS STILL ON IT.

[Dave2]

What are your peeves?

8. Vehicle doors, couches and coffee tables are a safe place to hide to avoid the BG's rounds.

Right after the same bad guy with the same gun and the same bullets just shot through somebody else's body armor.

[Dave2]

Occasionally, I've seen movies where they show the bullet in flight... WITH THE FREAKING BRASS STILL ON IT.

Never noticed that one. Do you happen to remember which movie/show it was?

[sookandy]

Ok maybe a bit off topic but, grenades. Why is it every grenade explosion is a big huge fireball? Never any shrapnel or concussion. It's always the fireball that makes them dead.

[SewTexas]

I forget what I was watching, I'm pretty sure it was one of those really bad Saturday shows on SyFy, so that really probably explains everything....but, there was a gun fight and every semi could shoot at least 100 shots without reloads or anyone saying "hey, what ya got left?"