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Topic: It's a gun? or something else? What it is? Please

Hi all. I have a question - in the scene collapsing house (palazzo) in Venice there is a moment, where professional assassins uses strange thing?:) with nails or bolt... maybe somebody know, what sort of thing is this? (sorry, can't find image to illustrate)

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Re: It's a gun? or something else? What it is? Please

the one they shoot Bond with? if so, that's a nail gun...

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hope that helps ajb007/smile and welcome to AJB!

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Re: It's a gun? or something else? What it is? Please

Oh, yeah, a nail gun.  Quite a common power tool in DIY stores and building sites.  Hours of fun to be had from them ajb007/wink

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Re: It's a gun? or something else? What it is? Please

Although you won't find one that actually shoots nails through the air! You have to place it against a wall or floor for it to drive nails out as that's horribly dangerous; the movies lie to us! ajb007/smile

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Re: It's a gun? or something else? What it is? Please

I've shot a nail a few inches before...but that might have been my high school's bad power tools...:D it was pretty neat1

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Re: It's a gun? or something else? What it is? Please

emtiem wrote:

Although you won't find one that actually shoots nails through the air! You have to place it against a wall or floor for it to drive nails out as that's horribly dangerous; the movies lie to us! ajb007/smile

And thank goodness the movies do lie to us. I'm a sucker for a bad one line quip
Person 1:"What happened to him?'

Bond: "I nailed him." LOL!!!

Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope

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Re: It's a gun? or something else? What it is? Please

Mr Martini wrote:
emtiem wrote:

Although you won't find one that actually shoots nails through the air! You have to place it against a wall or floor for it to drive nails out as that's horribly dangerous; the movies lie to us! ajb007/smile

And thank goodness the movies do lie to us. I'm a sucker for a bad one line quip
Person 1:"What happened to him?'

Bond: "I nailed him." LOL!!!

IIRC lifted verbatim form Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon 2.