Throwing Guns in Movies ?
Thunderpussy
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I was wondering after watching Skyfall. On the train Bond runs out of
bullets and in disgust throws his Gun away.
For those in the know is this part of Gun trainning, in the military.
I'll point out I know nothing about guns or shooting but,..................
Couldn't you still use the gun as a "Club" to hit someone with. Or use it
to threaten the next person you meet as they wouldn't know it was unloaded.
Not picking on Skyfall as it's done in many Movies, just wondering if it was the
normal "Movie logic" of if there was a tactical reason for it.
bullets and in disgust throws his Gun away.
For those in the know is this part of Gun trainning, in the military.
I'll point out I know nothing about guns or shooting but,..................
Couldn't you still use the gun as a "Club" to hit someone with. Or use it
to threaten the next person you meet as they wouldn't know it was unloaded.
Not picking on Skyfall as it's done in many Movies, just wondering if it was the
normal "Movie logic" of if there was a tactical reason for it.
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It is standard training to reholster a firearm when it is no longer needed. That would include when it's no longer of any use, such as when it's empty.
Someone may have to throw a gun away if it was empty and they don't have the time to reholster it before going hands on with an assailant. Even this may be a bit of a stretch because you're quite right about using a gun as a striking weapon. And when you're in this type of fight, if anyone is going to have a gun, loaded or not, I want it to be me.
I have seen a pistol used as a striking weapon and it works well. In the situation I'm referring to the pistol was loaded and there was/is a real danger of the pistol discharging due to the impact, or repeated impact, or improper trigger finger placement. Using one to strike is not normally recommended.
It's rare, but there are times when you will draw your firearm in a deadly force encounter and then circumstances change and you're suddenly into a non-lethal, or less-than-lethal, force situation and you're standing there with your pistol in your hand. That's when you want to transition to a lower level force option, if one is available.
These things are very fast and very fluid. You'll see that I don't use words like "never" or "always". That's because at the end of the day it doesn't matter what you do as long as you go home to your family.
In case I haven't answered your question, I know of no tactical reason to throw a gun away.
It's just one of those questions, which I've always
wanted to ask, but usually forget.
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empty ppk vs glock 17 with high cap mag......
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i dunno how you managed it don, but try as I might, that 5.56 just won't go into my ppk....
(reaches for the manchester spanner)
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lol...
he seemed to have a "special" gun for each film. But how
about Q designing a Gun that could double as a Boomerang
Or another reference to SF's genius: like the gun, Bond is to be a spent cartridge, to be thrown away when not needed... 8-)
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but certainley in British police forces all equipment is (booked out) to you
from your car right down to your speed cuffs ,they are numbered also
even your CS gas canister is weighed in/out and you ,no one else is responsible for it
this is to speed up investigations when it goes bent ,on who hit who with what
to protect the officer and also the suspect ,so to return back to the nick
and tell the skipper or guvnor sorry i threw it away would be as welcome as a
snake in a lucky dip,so i go along with film effect,
I don't think that this would apply to a government sanctioned assassin