As the FX channel\u2019s well-crafted series \u201cJustified,\u201d based on an Elmore Leonard short story, winds toward its finale, there has been a boo-boo.\u00a0 Senior citizen crime queen Katherine fought rival gangster\u2019s bodyguard Mikey to mutual destruction. She emptied her revolver into him but didn\u2019t stop him from beating her to death before he died in the arms of his boss.<\/p>\n
Thing of it was \u2013 and perhaps only a gun geek would notice \u2013 she fired one shot more than she could have in real life.<\/p>\n
Her revolver was clearly a J-frame Smith & Wesson .38 Special, with an obviously visible five-shot cylinder \u2013 a Model 60 Chief Special, it looked like to me \u2013 and she shot him six times without reloading.<\/p>\n
Things like that make the aficionado roll his or her eyes: it\u2019s like spotting a wristwatch on a character who\u2019s supposed to be playing Robin Hood.\u00a0 Gets in the way of that \u201cwilling suspension of disbelief\u201d we all need for enjoyment of fiction.<\/p>\n
Sure ain\u2019t the first time something like that has happened.\u00a0 A couple which come to mind:<\/p>\n
In \u201cTombstone,\u201d Val Kilmer\u2019s character starts the central shootout armed with a double barrel shotgun (2 shots), a Colt Single Action Army revolver (would have probably been carried with 5 rounds, but could have held 6) and in the actual gunfight near OK Corral used as backup a Lightning model double action .38 Colt (again likely 5, but 6 tops.) That\u2019d be 15 rounds at most without reloading, but in the movie he gets three shots out of the double barrel, and with a revolver in each hand (he used them sequentially in the actual gunfight) fired over 20 shots total before I lost count.<\/p>\n
On AMC\u2019s popular zombie series \u201cWalking Dead,\u201d the firearms foul-ups were so frequent I lost count there, too.\u00a0 I found myself yelling at the screen, \u201cThere\u2019s no rear sight on that rifle!\u201d \u201cGet your finger off the trigger, there\u2019s nothing to shoot at!\u201d\u00a0 It was Significant Other\u2019s turn to roll her eyes and say with her patented long-suffering sigh, \u201cYou don\u2019t accept a rifle with no rear sight, but you DO accept animated corpses?\u201d<\/p>\n
In the pilot episode of \u201cWalking Dead,\u201d the Rick Grimes character tells his brother officers to take off the safeties\u2026on their Glock pistols, which normally don\u2019t HAVE safeties.\u00a0 (Glock has produced the G17-S with manual safety, and I have and like Joe Cominolli\u2019s patented thumb safety retrofit on one of my Glock 17 pistols, but the ones on the show weren\u2019t so equipped.) Another fiction favorite is \u201cI flipped off my revolver\u2019s safety.\u201d MOST revolvers don\u2019t have manual safeties, but I have a left-handed Frank Murabito safety on one of my Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolvers, and the right-handed version works off the cylinder release latch.)<\/p>\n
Ah, Hollywood\u2026<\/p>\n
Gun people, what is YOUR favorite (or perhaps, most teeth-grinding non-favorite) firearms faux pas <\/em>on TV and movie screens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the FX channel\u2019s well-crafted series \u201cJustified,\u201d based on an Elmore Leonard short story, winds toward its finale, there has been a boo-boo.\u00a0 Senior citizen crime queen Katherine fought rival gangster\u2019s bodyguard Mikey to mutual destruction. She emptied her revolver into him but didn\u2019t stop him from beating her to death before he died in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}