wandered what this audience thought about some gun and ammo information given in this best seller.

The book moves fast. It's interesting. Although some of these international thrillers are written by former military guys, I found some of the situations debatable.

Protagonist picks up a short barrel glock loaded with 45 acp in case he needed to shoot an intruder through the front door. Short barrel slows the speed of a subsonic bullet. He doesn't say, but I also assume non hollow point if he wants to penetrate. Is this your pick? Or would you select a different gun, longer barrel and different ammo?

Protagonist selected a HK striker fired 40 caliber viper and put in an appendix holster. It's a vague threat of multiple attackers. It's not the first pistol I'd pick if I were planning to concealed carry or is it the ammo I'd use. How about you.

On a few occasions, multiple attackers are all killed using double taps. Distance varies. One time a Beretta 92sf is used with a suppressor. One time, a CZ 75 with a suppressor is used, and the 3rd time, I believe a glock 19 is used without a suppressor. The characters using them are expert shots, but double taps with a suppressor isn't the easiest thing to accomplish against multiple targets some of which are also good shots. Without a suppressor, the CZ75 would be the gun I'd pick. The suppressor was needed only one of 3 times. If you have any experience as a gov.'t assassin, what is your gun of choice?

It's a fun, fast read. Some of the gun andammo choices might be arguable.

Interested in how you hit men might handle it differently.

I read books when the protagonist "takes off the safety on his revolver".

And, shooting a silenced gun, it "Coughs".

Zilllions of errors in books involving firearms.

Cheers

Plasma, no silencer needed.

I don’t know what it’s called. I just know the sound it makes when it kills a man.

Books and movies are all the same.

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"takes off the safety on his revolver".

FIL bought a Heritage .22LR revolver. I was with him when he purchased it. Upon handling the gun before he bought it, I said "Hey look! It's got a safety!!!" the salesman was surprised that the pistol, indeed, had a safety on it!

Majority of action novelists and writers for TV are not experienced in the use of arms.

For what it's worth if they do make a mistake it goes right over the head of most gun owners, too. Maybe we aren't bothering to think it thru or it's just so common we ignore it - but there it is.

We've gone from 1 in ten trained by the military to 1 in 100 and for all the wrong stuff done most don't even see it.

and a lot of times, it's even argued that doing it wrong is the right way to do it. Like, loading a weapon against a closed slide or bolt. I just stick to what I was trained to do and stay away from the internet more everyday.

I like the revolvers with silencers screwed on.

 
I read a James Patterson book once where the BGs entered the restaurant to kill a guy, armed with 9mm. The crime scene tech picked up all .40" brass, and the ME said the entrance hole in the dead guy's head was .45".

I don't ever remember the BG's going into a restaurant to kill someone. Guess it was emotion taking them over. You've cured me from reading any of James Patterson's stuff.

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Originally posted by Ogie:
I like the revolvers with silencers screwed on.

I loved the bayonet-mounted ones in Magnum Force.

I saw a movie a couple weeks ago about a drug heist gone wrong. Two BGs with suppressed full-auto 9mm subguns. The guns were typical "Hollywood quiet" (cough, cough, just really fast) and both BGs fired literally hundreds of rounds without reloading. They weren't even carrying any spare mags. No recoil, either. Those Hollywood guns are really amazing, aren't they?