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by Gustofer, previous page: Likewise, all you have to do to save their life is get the bullet out and maybe cauterize the entrance wound.

We Have to Get the Bullet Out!

Guns Don't Work That Way

Guns and Gunplay Tropes

People shooting especially in buildings and vehicles and then carrying on normal conversations or being able to hear as if nothing has happened.

Silenced guns way too quiet.

Someone racking a shotgun when they get out of the car and again right before or when they make entry to a structure.

Revolvers making the sound of a semi-auto slide being racked and as mentioned, the sound of the hammer being cocked on a Glock, fingers on triggers, it's just lazy directing....

I think pistols look thinner on the screen. For example, a Glock17 looks lean and mean on screen but then you hold one in real life and it is a chunky monkey.

Swing-out cylinders on revolvers going click-click-click when spun. Since they obviously don't normally, somebody felt it necessary to add the sound in post-production.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
Glocks going, “CLICK!” when supposedly empty and the trigger is pulled.

Clickety Click Click. It seems to signify either preparing to use it, e.g. when drawing from a holster, or when threatening a person with it, as if to emphasize they are about to shoot if the person doesn't comply. Then when de-escalating such as pointing it down it's another bunch of clickety-clicks.

It is everywhere in every show it seems.

Cocking the hammer noise on a Glock

Swat teams maneuvering as a group with all the members behind the front officer pointing there weapons at the guy in front of them and then firing past the guy in front of them, usually right over that guys ear.

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Originally posted by tleddy:

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Originally posted by Voshterkoff:
On the flip side, the empty revolver in SAW paying off was surprising and welcome.

Sorry - not familiar…

Two people trapped in a room, with an apparent suicide holding a revolver. Revolver is found out to be totally empty, no brass. For some reason I strongly suspected that it was a plot point rather than Hollywood buffoonery, and it was indeed Chekhov's empty gun in the end.

The movie, Open Range is listed as a favorite by many. I have a hard time getting past Costner’s 14 shot revolver in the climatic street fight with the bad guys.

The ricochet sound every time a round is fired.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
The ricochet sound every time a round is fired.

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That and the sparks thrown when hitting/ricocheting off some surface.

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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
That and the sparks thrown when hitting/ricocheting off some surface.

The ones we see in movies are fakes because they’re pictured as being seen in daylight, but it’s not totally bogus.

At one time I would have bet the house that a gilding metal (copper) jacketed bullet with lead core and no steel could not possibly cause a spark of any sort when hitting something else.

Then, though, I started holding night training shoots and lo and behold: flashes when pistol bullets like that hit armor steel targets. I was amazed and didn’t believe my eyes at first, but it’s true. There are extreme high speed YouTube videos that prove I don’t just imagine it. Some even show flashes when one bullet strikes another, so it’s just jacket and core material that are involved in both. That seems to be why when bullets strike rocks in close vicinity of dry vegetation that that can cause fires—something else that has been credibly reported.

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Originally posted by armored:
Swat teams maneuvering as a group with all the members behind the front officer pointing there weapons at the guy in front of them and then firing past the guy in front of them, usually right over that guys ear.

You also notice that all teams look like they bought their gear from Temu. They have uniforms that are overly baggy and generally the lead detectives in the show lead the SWAT team in.

There are few examples I can think of off the top of my head that looked decent.

Robbery Homicide Division
Mayor of Kingstown

Both come to mind as at least look the part.

The no recoil.

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Originally posted by egregore:
...somebody felt it necessary to add the sound in post-production.

And the dog barks every time one is shown on screen, the ever present toot-toot of a semi truck everywhere.

Maybe they think the audience is too stupid to recognize the truck, dog, revolver, etc... by seeing one.

Reminded because I saw it again last night.

Chambering a round in a firearm (any firearm) long after there should have been one in the pipe already. Directors are so in love with the pregnant pause while the person on screen racks the slide, or the shotgun, or trips the follower…

Phone Booth: the sound of the sniper rifle bolt chambering a round everytime the bad guy gets angry.

Most television shows where a bullet is recovered and it's still in the casing.

Tables and other flimsy objects being used as cover against gunfire.