Top 15 Gun Myths Created By Hollywood

[@spacehamsterZH]

The Die Hard scene with the empty Beretta is actually a rare example where the clicking does make sense - McClane hands it to Gruber empty with the slide in battery, so what should happen is exactly what you see - the double action pull of the trigger cocks the hammer back and releases it. Pulling the trigger multiple times in frustration doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but what the gun's doing is accurate.

[@grinner68]

Yep. Was gonna make the same comment.

[@MarcoGamer640Productions2012]

Yep! As a beretta owner, that’s exactly how it is.

[@anuar.m.y]

i agree with the whole statement, what bothers me is that he gave him an empty gun, which does make a considerable difference in weight in contrast with a loaded gun

[@twoshady518]

yep. just watched it for Christmas and started to call it out as movie gun BS but then realized it was actually correct.

[@johnshepherd9676]

As usual I post before reading all the way down.

[@jacksquat2067]

I hate that every time someone pulls out a pistol or raises a rifle from low ready, you hear a generic cocking/chambering sound. 🙄

[@alextrevino7304]

Click, click 😂😂

[@seannewman8542]

Exactly!! It sounds like the gun is broken af! LOL!

[@emmuiruri23]

This, this roght here is the most annoying one. When every movement of the gun results in a metallic or chambering sound.

[@sleepysleeper6390]

Stargate the movie was awful for doing this lol

[@emzzz8180]

"Infinite Ammo: Many action scenes would be a lot less exiting in dynamic if the characters has to stop and reload every few shots" >Proceeds to show John Wick 2 when it's LITERALLY one of the few movies who respect the limited ammo trope and made it look FUCKING AWESOME

[@tristanflynn4014]

Then shows Brendan Fraser emptying his guns of the spent cartridges after blasting some Mummies.

[@CorneliusSchwarzenstein]

4:50 So, you’re saying, I can’t go into a gun-shop and buy a phased plasma rifle with a 40 watt range?

[@chefdean7257]

Or the fact that forty watts is barely enough to power a small light bulb ?!

[@Giambijuice]

Hey, just what you see pal

[@danielmitchell6940]

In the 80's you could buy guns and walk out without paperwork though....I bought a lot of guns in the 80's before background checks.

[@ShosuCeladon]

Five days even though you're mad now.

[@americansupervillain4595]

@CorneliusSchwarzenstein Not in California, try Texas.

[@NakedSnake1836]

9:58- The Mythbusters mentioned this several times as they had tested that myth and had proved that even a .50 caliber round would break apart 3ft after hitting the water.

[@cwebekilehadebe2532]

Huzzzzaahh a man of quality

[@ARIXANDRE]

I love all Mythbusters episodes regarding firearm misconceptions.

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

"This one kills you. This one kills you and everyone else in the room." My fav Mythbusters line.

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

#2. Even when the body armor works, you should still expect some bruises on your chest. Also, they're not reusable. Once the fibers get damaged, that's basically a sweater vest

[@draconusfrigidus]

Perhaps a nitpick but treating gun magazines like they're one-use only, and once they're empty you just throw them away. Police and army alike will attest that you only do that if you're in a situation where you can't spare the few seconds needed to stick the empty mag in your pocket or somewhere on your person, and even then you'll be expected to go back and retrieve it when it's safe to do so. Same goes for throwing the gun itself away if its empty. It can still function as a bludgeoning tool or a crude hammer in an emergency situation, and you can, you know, eventually get more ammo for it.

[@seannemo8076]

We were trained in "Magazine Retention", to the point that you could get in trouble on the range during qual if you didn't at least show an _attempt_ at retention.

[@Chiller11]

Water is not universally a bad place to be in films. Water saves you from 100 falls off buildings or waterfalls. It allows the hero to sneak up on opponents silently and it can cause cotton clothing to cling revealingly while maintaining a PG13 rating.

[@robbnutter4665]

Odd that you showed clips of "John Wick" during the reloading segment as he DOES reload his guns AND makes a point of it. Keanu Reeves went through extensive gun training from Taran Butler and Taran Tactical for the "John Wick" films and is quite accurate in his portrayal.

[@RayMcElroy50]

You had to pick up someone with nice GUNS for the thumbnail lol

[@taymccullough8775]

Reason I clicked on lol

[@andrewshearsby8125]

@@taymccullough8775 Ditto

[@Jaimie.Simms88]

​@@andrewshearsby8125🥇

[@SteveM1959]

44 magnums

[@peter-radiantpipes2800]

No one refers to boobs as guns. Not that I’ve ever heard.

[@tactical-daddy]

6:22 the scene from True Lines as shown can happen, that particular firearm is an open bolt, fully automatic weapon. If dropped with the bolt back for firing, it can fire.

[@knuclear200x]

Pamela Anderson was Everybody's 90's crush

[@Survivor-dw7we]

Baywatch and V.I.P. were a fun guilty pleasure watch.

[@knuclear200x]

@Survivor-dw7we i don't even remember what those shows were about

[@ssa6227]

Yaa

[@residentrump3271]

@@Survivor-dw7we VIP was great 👍🏿 Never cared for Baywatch though...

[@Jaimie.Simms88]

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[@davet319]

I have to thank you for accurately pointing out a lot of these misconceptions. As a gun enthusiast, these often drive me crazy. Especially regarding silencers. They DON'T make a gun silent. It is still extremely loud. That they act like it could be fired in a crowded room and no one would notice is likely part of the reason the idiots in our government won't deregulate them A couple other gun-related issues that bug me are: - Supposed experts with firearms not knowing how to hold a firearm properly. See Jack Bauer in "24" with his "tea cup" grip - Cops (or really anyone) who rack the slide right before the shootout. Racking the slide chambers a round. You mean to tell me your gun was unloaded up until then?! - Sound editors adding the sound of a hammer cocking anytime someone raises a handgun, even when they're holding guns that don't have a hammer

[@desperadox7565]

That's why "gun enthusiasts" normally call it a suppressor, not a silencer.😎

[@cowboy3490]

In some countries, suppressors are required while hunting.

[@davet319]

@@desperadox7565 sure, but really, that's just semantics. Hiram Maxim was the first person to patent one, and he called it a "silencer". People have tried to rebrand them with the more accurately described "suppressor", but the truth is that the terms are interchangeable

[@davet319]

@@cowboy3490 that's the craziest thing to me. Other more restrictive countries with regard to firearms have them available over the counter. In England and Germany they're required when hunting. Yet here, where we have the 2nd Amendment and the most guns per capita, they are heavily restricted at the federal level, and even outright banned in some states

[@KionKamon]

Suppressors are only truly effective when used in combination with subsonic rounds.

[@fawziekefli2273]

Movies: Cars are bulletproof Also Movies: Cars will explode when shot

[@stephenmiller2337]

The Dirty Harry movies are more realistic about gun play than most other movies. You can count Harry's shots, his hand recoils every time, and it's rare that you see a gunshot victim "fly back"

[@seannemo8076]

Might have something to do with the fact that Eastwood is a gun nut.

[@hartattack2739]

Friendly reminder... magazines and clips are NOT the same thing. They have similar functions but are very different

[@steveb0503]

That mini-guns sound ANYTHING like machine guns - they actually sound a WHOLE LOT more like someone making a REALLY loud "raspberry" sound...

[@ninjabiatch101]

Or ripping construction paper. Lol.

[@KionKamon]

@steveb0503, I’d like to add that to me it’s also frustrating when movies make the guns on fighter jets sound like a standard machine gun as well to piggyback off of your comment. It bothers me a lot when I hear either of those in a movie give off any sound that isn’t like the sound they’d really make

[@thirdegree101]

The funny thing about silencers is that since decibels increase at a logarithmic rate, taking off 30 of them takes off well over 90% of the sound, and it still is ridiculously loud.

[@BranniganCarter]

TONS of older revolvers and especially 1911 pistols will fire when dropped. Even the SIGP320 is infamous for it

[@matthewpaul6904]

One thing that's true, as Point Break and Hot Fuzz shown, yelling and firing into the air is the most badass way a protagonist can express their grief.

[@ML2193]

Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone "Aaarhhh"?

[@XHellPriest]

​@@ML2193No. I haven't fired a gun in the air and gone "aaaaahhhh"

[@abbeyadeyemi6866]

​@ML2193 Spoil the joke. Why don't you.

[@DieselMcBadass1]

I had a track coach who was a cop. He and 3 other cops were attempting to hold down a drugged out maniac who was very large and had the bath salt buff. He threw off all 4 and drew a pistol, A fish cop shot him several times in the chest when he went for a gun in his waistband. The 4 cops then jumped back on hi, the guy fought for about another minute. They are not death rays.

[@butlerwm]

Click, click, click with a locked slide. As mention by another comment, however, a double-action autoloader will click if the slide is already released and the chamber is empty. Good job, Die Hard.

[@matthewvorwald7169]

Awesome video Wacthmojo. As an action movie fan that also watches channels like Demolition Ranch and Kentucky Ballistics point out these sorts of things, this was fun to watch. I will say, out of all of these gun myths, I really love the infinite ammo myth. It's like turning on an infinite ammo cheat code for a video game. I absolutely love it, especially in John Woo movies. He's probably one of the biggest directors that does this in just about all of his movies. Hope everyone at Watchmojo and the other channels had a great Christmas.

[@danielhess1082]

Ah yes the Hollywood silencer movie trope. While suppressors do only effect the sound of the gun shot, not all "bullets" break the sound barrier. 22 LR and 45 ACP are two of the best cartridges to use with a suppressor for that reason. If you have a manually operated firearm, like a bolt action rifle, loaded with a subsonic round the only noises you will hear are the sound of the firing pin striking the primer, and the impact of the bullet itself, which varies depending on the target or struck. Also the "click" empty trope with a Semi Auto pistol can be explained in two ways. One is the cartridge in the chamber is a dude or is defective. The other and this is a bit difficult to do but it can happen because I've had it happen to me when firing a gun I'm unfamiliar with, and that is if you thumb the slide stop, preventing it from pushing up, it can result in fire your last round without the slide locking back. The scene with Hans Gruber uses a Beretta 92 which is a DA/SA pistol design which would give the desired click if the chamber is empty or the round is defective, by comparison a Glock pistol will "click" in the same scenarios but will only do so once because of the striker only getting reset from the pistol cycling the next round.

[@thomasgrasmick568]

Also suppressors, subsonic ammo is specifically loaded not to break the sound barrier. Less powder less boom less speed.

[@okparaeric7637]

The Thumbnail is nasty work

[@gungriffen]

Lol, 3:01 is one of the few times a semi-auto would actually click when pulling the trigger.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Double actions at least. But thats assuming the slide didn't lock back. Which happens sometimes.

[@Mortiz21]

​@ninjabiatch101 John purposely gives him the gun without bullets in the scene. So it would click and not lock back. Depending on the gun though. Most of them are single action and would only cock once and not reset when you pull the trigger.

[@rgracia611]

In that scene Jon intentionally removes the bullets and gives him an empty gun hence the reason it’s not locked back. That is a M9 which is double action/single action. It will cycle the hammer like in that scene.

[@ninjabiatch101]

@@rgracia611 Yeah sorry, i hadn't seen the movie in awhile. You hand someone an empty double action pistol, that's what would happen for sure.

[@joermnyc]

Honorable mention: If the guns aren’t full of infinite ammo, rather than reload everyone just tosses the empty gun away like an empty coffee cup! (Or throws the empty gun at someone in desperation). The first Matrix film lobby shootout is guilty of this, but makes up for it with Neo wearing “lots of guns” and Trinity using weapons picked up from other people.

[@harryboyes2812]

One thing that baffles me is where someone produces a firearm like an auto pistol or pump shotgun and then racks the slide to chamber the first round. This might look good for the camera but it actually wastes vital time, especially if the other person already has their own weapon aimed straight at you. That second or two you need to chamber the round might be enough to get you blasted. Here's another. I always found it strange when shows like The A-Team would use sheets of galvanised iron as armour plating and show it deflecting high-velocity military ammunition. I already knew that standard .22-calibre Long Rifle bullets would go straight through it without a problem, so that left me thinking what the hell? On the subject of silencers, using subsonic ammunition can help a little as this eliminates the crack of the bullet passing through the sound barrier. But the shot still makes a considerable noise. The only time I've ever heard a quiet shot was when I saw Dad using. 22-calibre short ammunition. I only heard the click of the firing pin striking the primer. Oh, and the actual act of shooting isn't so hard - but getting your shots to go where you want them to is another matter entirely. And I've been handling guns since I was eight years old (54 now), so I speak from experience. And quite a bit of it. 😊

[@MeliesCinemagician]

There's no such thing as a bullet-PROOF vest. The correct term is bullet-RESISTANT. Yes, it will RESIST some bullets, but eventually, under enough punishment, it WILL give way. It's not a "get out of death free" card.

[@mikeveselov]

While muzzle flashes are good for sound design cues, but you know what else would make a good sound cue? Recoil. Infact, when I acted out my fire, I imitated recoil every shot, and yes, I meant when using prop BB handguns...

[@TonyHammitt]

Also, you can't take the top slide and barrel off of a semi-automatic pistol, while it's loaded, like they did in Lethal Weapon 4. I asked a friend who had the same type of handgun and he said he and some friends tried it every which way they could and there's no way to just reach over and take it apart.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Forgotten weapons has a video on it. It should theoretically be possible but rotating the disassembly pin on a 92fs like that would be basically impossible.

[@Brodbob8016]

what was that thumbnail?

[@TROOPERfarcry]

The gun? Or the "guns"? Possibly Pamela Anderson from the film "Barb Wire" It was not a good film.

[@Brodbob8016]

@ The “guns”

[@cadman2300]

Barb Wire. A 1996 Pam Anderson movie where her fake cans do all the acting for her.

[@ickess]

Hearing guns rattle every single time you move it. No matter how little it’s moved

[@mic187x2]

Hearing a hammer drop on a striker fired handgun.

[@dart336]

One of my pet peeves is how 9mm recoil and availability gets constantly wrong. "It'S tHe SaMe CaLiBeR". So what? It's the most common one out there, most guys carrying either have a 9mm or a a surplus 40sw trade in. 45 and 38 are less popular. Then the 9mm has virtually no recoil through a properly designed duty or match grade firearm. It's not hollywood smooth with most of them but it's not as much recoil as you think. The lack of recoil is why it's the most popular for most police forces. It's super annoying when they do things like in How I Met Your Mother where Robin is shooting something that was never chambered in 9mm but 50AE, 357 mag and a series of magnums in the .40s but is the recoil is blamed on being a "9mm". Ironically if you had a custom made Desert Eagle in 9mm, the design would have no recoil which means Marshall's face would have never been slapped especially with him being 6'4.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Idk 9mm still snaps up a good bit. But yeah it depends a lot on the gun, and a 5 pound 9mm would kick basically not at all. On a separate note, the kinds of people who would make a show like HIMYM, tend to know nothing about firearms. XD

[@akiira69]

THese myths also apply to video games.

[@123mirc]

like shotguns are useless from 10+ feet? I know, it is a balancing stuff for video games, but damn, I'd like to see a video game with accurate weapon handling, mechanics and damage, which includes PVP.

[@Casperthegator]

Fired a 44 magnum revolver and let me tell ya, that sucka has MAJOR recoil. Let me tell ya, it ain't fun when you're not experienced with revolvers. They WILL recoil hard. Before anyone says anything, I only wanted to experience what it was like to fire the 44 magnum. Just a few shots fired to get a good feel for it's power.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Yeah its pretty common knowledge that anything above .45 has quite noticeable kick. :P .44 Mag and .50 AE especially. (Even .45 kicks like hell for me, because I am a little bitch. Lol)

[@treymc4216]

This was beyond frustrating to watch. It's like you purposely paired movie clips that happened to be the rare real-world exception to the trope

[@beefyoso]

also, silencers are NOT illegal to own.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Depends on the state. But they're usually just expensive and a pain in the ass to get the right permits.

[@davidyoung3833]

​@@ninjabiatch101there's no permit to get a suppressor . I would know I have one

[@seannemo8076]

NO, their just an NFA item.

[@jcj268]

7:36 Thanks for including the Treasure Planet clip

[@abc3902]

packets of chips are bulletproof, making them a good place to hide behind during a gunfight.

[@tristanphipps8546]

The biggest discrepancy from Hollywood is that highly trained agents miss every shot or only flesh wound shots.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Lol John Wick, where everyone is a master assassin, but high council death squads still miss every shot.

[@andrewdonatelli6953]

The biggest myth is that silencers/suppressors don't work. Decibels are on a logarithmic scale. If the noise is "only" suppressed by 30db, it is a lot. 160db is approx 8x louder than 130db. Mythbusters did an episode and they were shocked at how well silencers work.

[@hawk469]

I think the only movies that I’ve seen that actually have pretty good reloading and tactical aiming is John wick

[@Jacob99174]

No curving bullets???

[@ninjabiatch101]

In fairness, thats not a movie trope. Thats a plot point in a single movie. Lol.

[@TROOPERfarcry]

Some of these myths are themselves myths. - Some guns absolutely have a visible flash, though this is often mitigated by using either quality ammo or a flsh-hider. But sure, most of the time they won't, or won't be noticeable. Desert Eagle 50 _ALWAYS_ have an invigorating flash. - Getting shot in some areas will drop someone like a sack of potatoes. But they don't usually die immediately. We die in steps, and people gurgle or twitch sometimes. it can give a very false sense that the person can still be saved even though the reality is that "die.exe" has been executed. (I was an EMT for a few years.) - Open bolt submachine guns -- specifically like the Mac that was shown in the video clip -- very much have a risk of slam-fire if dropped. This is a risk of all open-bolt sub-machine guns - Some guns will go 'click' if the trigger is pulled and nothing happens. The Beretta shown in the picture would do that _UNLESS_ the bolt was held open. But if the magazine were removed, or improperly seated, that could absolutely happen. Also, malfunctioning magazines will fail to hold the slide open. And I'm aware that some Berettas have firing-pin disconnect if the magazine is removed. But a lot of people - maybe even _MOST_ people - disable that, because it's a pointless feature. - only THREE states in the US -- so 6% -- do a "drop-safety" test for guns. That's not "most states" as the video claims. And the point of the tests has _NOTHING_ to do with safety, and _EVERYTHING_ to do with denying their citizens rights under the guise of safety. - silencers kinda' sorta' _DO_ make guns uber quiet. But in reality, a silenced handgun with subsonic ammunition will be about as loud as a car door closing. And as you sit in your house, how many times do you hear car doors closing? The answer is probably a fair amount... BUT, your brain disregards it practically as soon as it hears it, so you're never aware of it. The same is true for a silenced handgun. Silenced rifles, on the other hand, are _NOT_ quiet. But if you're getting shot at by a silenced rifle using regular rifle ammo, the bullet will get there _BEFORE_ the muffled -- but still loud -- gunshot. So in a way, it's not particularly noticeable as there's something else occupying your attention. Having said all of ^that^, I like this video because it sets people's expectations closer to reality. And I'm aware that Hollywood is probably doing this nonsense because it makes the film either more exciting, or even just more possible. Like the first scene from Equilibrium - if there were no muzzle-flashes, that scene couldn't even exist. It'd just be darkness with gunfire. Also, in other scenes the artificial muzzle-flash is important because it lets the audience see a visual cue that the gun was firing, instead of just hearing gunfire and not being completely clear on which gun was doing the shooting. 1 - Some things that I'd add to this list is the amount of times that a person cocks a Glock. You can rack the slide, but there's no hammer to cock back. Please stop cocking Glocks. 2 - Whenever they raise a handgun, it sounds like a box of bolts or something. The gun shouldn't have a bunch of loose parts in it that make it sound that way when simply raised. 3 - Stop dramatically racking handguns, shotguns, and rifles for effect. For one, how the hell do you have an unchambered shotgun menacingly pointed at someone _WITHOUT_ having a shell in it? And then when they're hesitating to cooperate, _THEN_ you make the gun ready? Same for handguns. And to an extent, same for M16s or AR15s, where they arbitrarily, mid-conversation, manually cycle the bolt for effect. _IF_ the gun was ready to shoot before that action, then cycling the bolt would make the gun spit out a perfectly good, unfired bullet (cartridge). If the gun _WASN'T_ ready before that, _then why the hell were they point it??_

[@ninjabiatch101]

1 - Or an external safety, so there is literally no reason for it to click. Maybe pulling through the trigger safety? But thats barely audible. 2 - For some reason I love this trope. The gun going *Chckk* when you raise it up is how you know they mean business. XD

[@KimberlyLetsGo]

'Headshots are only fatal 90% of the time.' What? ONLY??? If you shoot a gun in a car or in a small room, you are going to have serious hearing loss. And your ears are going to really hurt.

[@hawk469]

Yea. People have survived headshots and neck shots so it’s possible to survive depending where and how the bullet hits

[@bbsy1]

@@hawk469congratulations on missing the point. Though , I think the presenter meant it partially sarcastically.

[@rodscarbrough2337]

@@hawk469 a few years ago a politician in Tucson was shot in the head. she did live. had some brain damage as a result.

[@Jaimie.Simms88]

🎖

[@KimberlyLetsGo]

@@hawk469 Well, yea. But read that line with critical thinking.

[@dannyruiz3205]

A suppressed 22 would beg to differ lol or a suppressed 300 blackout AR running sub-sonics. If you’ve ever shot either of those, then you know they can get pretty frickin quit.

[@Cheesycook]

I was a firearms instructor. Thank you for making this. I know it was hard for a channel like this. There are so many more things to make a part 2 with.

[@alanmacpherson3225]

Not so much a gun myth but just an annoyance. When someone picks up a gun but never takes extra ammo from the dead guy and every gun picked up has a full magazine. Or someone is given a gun but no reloads. A bloke sitting in a car always checks their revolver is loaded or pulls the mag out of a pistol.

[@sunayocarissime5309]

At the very end actually. I'm not sure who the braincase was that came up with the, "gangsta," style of holding a handgun but it is quite possibly the DUMBEST thing you can do. One: It's not accurate, not even at point blank range. Two: Instead of the shell going off to the side, it will instead pop up, possibly expending the shell to land on somebody or the shooter. This can cause 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Three: It actually makes recoil even worse due to how the gun is handled. Doing that with a .50 caliber Desert Eagle for example has the potential to shatter your wrist.

[@BlazerK1914]

Gun Myths, lots of Gun Myths.

[@itsmephil2255]

1 thing that's always bothered me is if someone is using a revolver, 9 times out of 10 there's no bullets in the chambers

[@kevinclapson]

Some of these "corrections" are themselves only half right.

[@bacaudio2008]

Tables are also bulletproof. Always lol kick over the table

[@michaelmccollugh1811]

In 1984 when the Terminator was made, it was legal to buy some major firepower, including full-auto

[@pirkkaruuska5766]

Number 9. I think Sig Sauer has proven that to be true :D

[@thatmaninblack]

To be fair, Terminator 1 came out in 1984, 2 years before the federal full-auto gun ban. It was still more complicated buying a full auto, but stores still sold them until 1986.

[@GunSam]

This video sucks. Pointing out "myths" that are actually real. I shoot a lot, and a vast majority of the time there is muzzle flash with every shot, but it depends on the caliber/cartridge. Then they showed double action revolvers and double action semi automatic pistols clicking, that DO click because both cock and and drop the hammer with a trigger press - yet this is pointed out as a "myth". I have watched hundreds of action movies and have never seen one where they needed to remove a bullet from the body immediately. While most modern firearms do not fire when dropped, there are many that can, especially older ones that are still in circulation. Sig is notorious for this. I'm sorry, i'm halfway through and this guy is calling recoil "kickback", I can't take this seriously.

[@CustomSet101]

A lot of movies get gun safety wrong. There are four: always treat every gun as if loaded, keep it pointed in a safe direction and not at something not willing to destroy, keep finger off trigger until ready to fire, and be sure of the target what's behind it (and around it in general). Though there's more. Pop culture is terrible at teaching safe handling.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

Seth Kenny has entered the chat 🦺🥽🎧

[@ald1144]

New first rule of gun safety: forget anything you've seen in Hollywood.

[@MeanGeneSanDiego]

"Silencers" would do nothing at all on a revolver as there is space between the cylinder and barrel.

[@ninjabiatch101]

M1895 Nagant boiii. Lol.

[@GratefulPrimate]

Myth #16: Just pointing a pistol at someone always makes a dramatic clicking sound, whether or not you cock the hammer back.

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

4:24 -- Isn't that what happened to Garfield? No, not the cat but the President?

[@dpowers1185]

THANK YOU for this video WatchMojo.

[@julianmanteete3610]

Typical Hollywood shenanigans

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥉

[@GoldenJoe9176]

10. In the Terminators defense, the machine gun ban wasn’t until 1986.

[@tl3139]

I was in the USAF in Louisiana in 1985. I walked into a gun shop and bought a Uzi with two magazines, a barrel extension, and a carrying case for $150.

[@mr44mag]

So, one year before the de-facto machine gun ban and other regulations passed under FOPA in 1986? Congrats on being able to do something nearly 40 years ago.

[@tl3139]

@@mr44mag You sound upset. Are you ok?

[@mr44mag]

@@tl3139 I was just putting things into context; why it isn't that easy and hasn't been for a long time. Is there a reason for you to gaslight?

[@LuixWalkingDead21]

"Guns have no recoil" Shows a scene from John Wick where guns in fact have recoil

[@alexsmart5452]

The sound of pulling back a hammer on a Glock(or similar). Drives me insane. Ive even seen films where they put a fake external hammer on a glock just to have a person pull the "hammer" back for dramatic effect. Constant 'Press checks' in films is annoying as well. John Wick gets a pass because he's cool. Suppressors. Dont work on revolvers(outside of a couple of very very rare Russian and French ones made with an internal suppressor and a closed cylinder). Suppressors can be very effective when used with subsonic ammo. 300 Blackout(Whisper) is almost quiet enough you can sometimes hear the weapon cycling. As far as "no flash" in daylight, come see my 11.5" AR "pistol". Fireball and concussive blast. Fun for eveyone...unless you are standing next to me. There is a flash on most firearms, in daylight and at night even more. Its one of the reasons people put suppressors on AR type rifles, to help hide the muzzle flash. There is a whole industry with dozens of companies that make Flash suppressors for everything from pistols to rifles.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Can you think of an example where they physically pull back the hammer on a striker fired gun? Or are you just referring to the audio.

[@alexsmart5452]

@@ninjabiatch101 off the top of my head, no, but a simple search Ant man(not the one I was thinking of). Seems like a later Die Hard film( not the metal detection part..although that's another issue)..but yes the sound of a hammer being cock by someone with a Glock as well.

[@johnshepherd9676]

Hans Gruber had a Beretta 92FS/M-9. It is a double action/ingle action pistol which means that for first shot the trigger pull first cocks the hammer then drops it. Subsequent trigger pulls are single action because of the cocked hammer. If the pistol does not fire then you will get that "click" on the empty chamber because you will be in double action mode.

[@MinionofNobody]

Muzzle flash is actually pretty common although it is most noticeable at night. I am a retired cop. When I was in the police academy, they taught us to use the muzzle flash from our first shot to illuminate a target and adjust our aim when shooting in low light. I used this technique on the range many times.

[@JohnSmith-b6n]

Yeah, every shot is a literal explosion.

[@geraltrivia6148]

US cops being taught to shoot first and aim second explains quite a bit.

[@MinionofNobody]

@ I did not say the first shot was unaimed. I said they taught us to use the muzzle flash from the first shot to adjust our aim. There is a difference.

[@geraltrivia6148]

@@MinionofNobody It was a joke. American cops still suck though. (Not a joke; you're horribly trained & have way too little accountability.)

[@isaacgleeth3609]

Fully-automatic weapons in movies are often shown to be fired for several seconds or longer. Do that in real life, and that barrel will melt like clocks in Salvador Dali's _The Persistence of Memory_ .

[@WatchMojo]

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[@redpiller6050]

I'll never forget that ridiculous scene in Desperado with Antonio Banderes. How can a 2 shot sawn off fire 6 shots without reloading?

[@thecaptaintaz420]

Im proud that they dropped actual facts in this video. Most people believe in such exaggerated myrhs about guns irs frustrating, especially foreigners. But this was great video.

[@SlicerJen]

I have a myth. Everybody has a desert eagle. Everybody.

[@ricob2556]

You actually could by an Uzi at a gun shop in 1984. The Terminator scene was correct.

[@Giambijuice]

Not the 9mm Uzi he is getting. That would've been illegal. The Uzi that was available to civilians had a 16" barrel and was semi automatic, not the short barrel , fully automatic 9mm

[@davidyoung3833]

​@@Giambijuicewrong you can buy an Uzi right now depending on what state you live in and yes it can be full auto

[@sgt.marcusstacker]

Number 1 is exactly why I refuse to call a suppressor a silencer. Yes, the person who invented it called it a silencer. However, like many things over time, people have changed the name of things to better suit what they’re describing. I for one consider a suppressor one of those things and cannot in good conscience call it a silencer because it doesn’t silence the gunshot, it suppresses it.

[@palmerochs2989]

I appreciate you folks talking about the reason the studios add some of these effects

[@psmirage8584]

Years ago, I went to a shooting range with a friend, and tried the 44 Magnum - literally because of the Dirty Harry movies. After twelve shots, I was DONE. I had used both hands on the grip, of course, but my hands HURT.

[@duandutoit8393]

Only the Mythbusters can bust those myths.

[@myrddrral]

"Which gun trope drives you crazy?" ALL of them. Whenever I get new shooters at the range, I have to debunk them one by one. Tiresome.

[@zoidboy1569]

Classic Hollywood

[@BlackHatCinephile]

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[@Reaperguy67]

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[@user-anas-bodla]

Ya Man I am going to be 18 tomorrow

[@stevensiferd7104]

Machine gun barrels that never overheat. Pump-action shotguns that hold more than 4 rounds.

[@albertPI007]

What about the powder theory? When you shoot a gun, probably you'll get some powder on your eyes.

[@Saphira4293]

Someone did their homework, finally. Thank you.

[@markshade8398]

I absolutely LOVE 12 and 13! I have argued those points many times.

[@dragonweyr44]

The worst offender for infinite ammo is probably Commando with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Followed by. The Rambo movies Movie suppressors, not silencers, make gunshots as quiet as mouse farts

[@AnnieBoBannie421]

I hate when they have actors ‘rack’ a shotgun…in reality before shooting…. you’re emptying your damn weapon. Maddening

[@HeatRaver]

The point of hiding behind a car is not that it's "bulletproof", it's so that you can't be directly seen and targeted. Yes, a shooter may know you're there, but it increases the odds of a miss.

[@TheMikefarny]

There's an action movie trope that drives me nuts. When two adversaries pull their guns on one another and nobody fires! What the heck! Do they suddenly TRUST each other? Nobody who has spent time around firearms is going to let another person, friendly or otherwise, point a gun at them at close range. This is NOT the time for shit talking either. It's time to shoot before your shot, and you better hope you can take em down fast before they get a shot off. The notion of squaring up to someone with guns drawn & leveled at each other is so absurd and yet so prevalent in films I have to seriously wonder about the state of common sense in America.

[@OreoBrewer]

Kentucky Ballistics taught me well!

[@martinh8784]

In the 1980s, we had the Israeli Uzi as the standard submachine gun in the German Army. They were notorious for accidentally discharging despite having 2 safeties (one in the grip and the slider one) and ... discharging when dropped. Our Sergeants (Feldwebel) spent more time on safety than operating training. There was a theory that we got the least safe Uzis that were produced 🤣🤣🤣

[@Denis-89]

Well played on using that screenshot as clickbait!

[@zulu0489]

A few of the movies you mention in your video have or try to have a pretty realistic depiction of firearms. John Wick and Open Range, especially

[@1979Spica]

Muzzle flash depends on the ammo and barrel length. It can be exactly as shown. Also “silencers” depend on the ammo being used. If the ammo is subsonic, you will only hear a click.

[@coled0666]

Most intermediate cartridges have very manageable recoil. Even high-recoiling rounds can be mitigated with practice. Magazines don't always hold the slide/bolt open. The Sig Saur P320 WILL fire when dropped. An Uzi is chambered in 9mm (NOT a "high-powered" weapon). Actual "high-powered" weapons, such as .50 cal. rifles do not require special licenses/paperwork (assuming it's not full_auto). With a little practice, shooting is easy. 30 db is pretty significant noise reduction. It won't make the gunshot inaudible, but it will make it hearing safe. 30 db is about the noise-reduction rate of most ear-pro. Sub-sonic ammo will eliminate the sonic boom. I did have to laugh at the suppressor on the revolver in The Manchurian Candidate. That doesn't work as the sound will escape through the gap between the cylinder and barrel.

[@ninjabiatch101]

Are you sure about the suppressor thing? I've always heard you should still use ear-pro even when suppressed.