Gun glitches in movies

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ChuckC

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Can't think of a specific movie, but I've seen people continue to "shoot" with the slide locked back.

Or someone cycles the action on a pump shotgun in a threatening manner, doesn't fire the round then moments later cycles it again and there is no round ejected.

Then there are the Jason Bourne or Liam Neeson type badass operators who grab a semi auto that's pointed at them at point blank distance and somehow field strip it with one hand in a split second and leave the bad guy holding a frame. Usually followed by a throat punch. Lol
 

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3. Someone is handed a pistol someone else was carrying, they cycle the slide and no round comes out. It even happens when they pick up a gun from someone that was just shooting at them.

This! Why does NO ONE carry with one in the chamber? Good guys, bad guys, doesn't matter - they all have to rack the slide before taking care of business. I must be getting old and cranky cause this one has started bugging me EVERY TIME
 

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Waiting for someone to post that pic of Magnum PI (?) racking the slide on a 1911, and the slide then launches itself off the frame.
 

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They're later in a warehouse during a shootout and every time he fires a round from the revolver, a spent shell is heard dropping like it was fired from a pistol!
It was fired from a pistol, just not a semi-auto. ;)

That does remind me of one annoyance. I think my wheelgun is defective; when I swing out the cylinder and spin it, it doesn't click like it does in the movies...
 

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