What I learned about guns from the movies!

[MisterHappy]

Also, despite the total lack of air everything is really loud in the vacuum of space....

That's because of all the screaming you can't hear.

 

[Bill Katt]

I've also learned that a car door is super safe cover because bullets don't go through them.




Actually, if you were able squeeze yourself behind the fuel filler door of a Porsche, you might stand a chance.

 

[hminsky]

Also, if you are Charles Bronson, you can hip-fre a 1919 accurately. (jump to 2 mins)



Now that I look at it, Death Wish has every cliche' out there, including the rare "no scope sniper rifle one handed hip shot"

Where did you get a video of Jose?

 

[hminsky]

Gunpowder has it's own oxidizer - so no external oxygen needed to explode.
A bullet in vacuum would travel a very long distance...and you would hear no sound of the shot fired.

I don't know about "no sound". There would be an expanding spray of gas from the muzzle and you might get some puff of that hitting your space helmet, if you were close by near the front of the muzzle. But you wouldn't get much coming backwards behind the muzzle.

 

[Boris]

I don't know about "no sound". There would be an expanding spray of gas from the muzzle and you might get some puff of that hitting your space helmet, if you were close by near the front of the muzzle. But you wouldn't get much coming backwards behind the muzzle.

if you'd shoot a 50 cal in space, I'm sure you'd hear the sound of your teeth rattle

 

[cekim]

if you'd shoot a 50 cal in space, I'm sure you'd hear the sound of your teeth rattle

You'd at least have to hit the impulse engines to compensate for the recoil too...

 

[ShootinFoodie]

Gunpowder has it's own oxidizer - so no external oxygen needed to explode.
A bullet in vacuum would travel a very long distance...and you would hear no sound of the shot fired.

Except that little bit or percussive forcevconducted up through your arm, through your torso, and to your head. IT would be a mighty small noise, though.

 

[pdm]

That's it. Now I want to change a space station's orbit by shooting a .500 Magnum out the window.

 

[dwarven1]

thats my question. would it? I mean you need O2 for something to burn...yes?

Now, the real question is would black powder burn in a vacuum? I'd certainly think so... but it would be interesting to perform the experiment and see for sure.

 

[dwarven1]

I've also learned that a car door is super safe cover because bullets don't go through them.

Unless they have those "cop killer" bullets that can shoot through a bulldozer blade (Lethal Weapon number somethingorother) or the plot calls for you to be hurt.

if you'd shoot a 50 cal in space, I'm sure you'd hear the sound of your teeth rattle

Ah, yes... the Orion drive.

 

[Rivers of Blood]

Don't forget French Dirty Harry:

 

[chinalfr]

I like airborne tactical roll and slow motion bullet dodge. The best of all, one hand bullet stopper.

 

[josh2600]

The Weaver stance is the only way to go.

I'm a much better shot with an isosceles stance, but feel so much more comfortable with a weaver stance. I blame this on movies/tv and growing up playing guns and always imitating what I saw.

 

[josh2600]

The best of all, one hand bullet stopper.

well.... he is "the one"

 

[Keystone]

Everyone knows you can fly triumphantly through the fireball...

I remember seeing a WWII movie where they got that right...one of the pilots (with the squadron's cat) flew through the burning black cloud of whatever was being blown up. Didn't make it. Don't remember what movie it was, though...

 

[Tater]

The old Robert Wuhl Superman joke.

"So he stands there with his chest puffed out letting bullets ricochet off him, but then he ducks when the bad guy throws the empty gun at him."


Also, if you are Charles Bronson, you can hip-fre a 1919 accurately. (jump to 2 mins)



Now that I look at it, Death Wish has every cliche' out there, including the rare "no scope sniper rifle one handed hip shot"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoi7dZykHWE

 

[scatter]

If you draw a revolver really fast and point it at someone, it sounds like a slide racking. Walking Dead, season 1.

 

[Lip]

Jessie Ventura's mini gun in Predator. You can cut a whole jungle down.

 

[glockstones]

The A -Team are the worst shots ever and any 007 agent can nail every bad guy at 300 yards using his .380.

And the .380 drops people even when only grazed.

 

[luv2Bfree]

Ok, this is about knives... an episode of Criminal minds on Wednesday showed a guy with a knife, held low. Cut to the next scene... camera is behind the guy, and there's a metallic "shiinggg" sound as he raises the knife into the camera's view. Wow!! I never knew that a five inch Buck knife, already in the guy's hand, could sound like a Samurai sword when simply raised through the air!

 

[NHKevin]

We did this on one of the aviation forums I belong to.

This one?
http://forums.aopa.org/showthread.php?t=79418

 

[gixxer_kid]

If the bullet cant see you it cant hit you. AKA everything is cover.

 

[Spanz]

I have learned from many movies that it is safe to swing guns around the room, pointing them at my friends in an animated fashion when I talk, with my finger on the trigger. I have also learned that the best way to shoot a pistol is with it lying horizontal to the ground. Also, you do not need hearing protection when shooting in a small space, like a 44 magnum in a car, because the shooters never stumble out of the cars with their ears bleeding and going "what did you say?".

 

[Jsfitzgerald85]

also regarding the movie wanted, you can snipe someone from miles away through an office building with a rifle from the 1700s or whatever time period, using a telescope

 

[jaymce]

Come on guys... 2 days and no one posted:

when the gun is held sideways it is a kill shot.



Crappy vid but only one that was not 2-3min long.

 

[Radtekk]

There's no such thing as recoil, and everybody shoots right-handed, left-eye dominant.

And there IS such a thing as a 20 round revolver, they had one on Sons of Guns. It just needs 150 year-old ammo. But Charley can find it.

 

[mass]

Shots all fire at the same decible whether outside or in an enclosed space.

Ejected shells always fall straight down into a neat pile.

When you draw your weapon it self racks.

All firearms sound like an 870 being racked, even revolvers.

Sent from behind enemy lines using Tapatalk.

 

[Matt_SERE]

Couldn't sleep. I knew I would find an appropriate thread, eventually.
Another local in Hollywood.

 

[The_man]

We did this on one of the aviation forums I belong to. It got really fun! So, for something fun to do on a Friday, Ill start....

I learned that from Die Hard 2....There is a company in Austria that makes a gun that can't be picked up by airport metal detectors. And it cost more than what a cop makes in a month. Wow! What are the bullets made of?

Cocking a hamer on an average handgun makes a noise SO loud, that people can here it all the way across the room!


Ok...your turn!

cocking the hammer back on Glock. pew pew pew.

well screw me and call me Suzanne. *post from 2012* LOL.

 

[45collector]

Necro thread!