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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier

One more gun cliche/inaccuracy.

Anybody who has ever fired a gun without hearing protection, ESPECIALLY indoors, knows that your hearing is pretty much shot to pieces for perhaps a couple of hours.

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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier

Assassin's sniper rifle.

Whenever an assassin or sniper must kill the Senator/President/Candidate by making a long shot from a hotel room, etc., the movie must show the killer skillfully and slowly assembling his specially made rifle from an innocuous looking briefcase. It can't merely be a standard, everyday rifle like a Winchester 70 or Remington 700 that has just had the barrel and receiver seperated from the stock.

The barrel has to be seperate and screwed into the receiver by some clever means. The stock must be assembled there. Finally, after putting the rifle together, the shooter takes a scope out and attaches it to the rifle.

While this assembly is slowly and meticulously taking place, it handily gives the hero time to race up the stairs or run down the hallway of the hotel in order to thwart the crime at the last minute.

In real life, guys like Lee Harvey Oswald do their work with fairly common...even cheap rifles that do not come packed in neato cases and require assembly.

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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier

Assassin's sniper rifle.

Whenever an assassin or sniper must kill the Senator/President/Candidate by making a long shot from a hotel room, etc., the movie must show the killer skillfully and slowly assembling his specially made rifle from an innocuous looking briefcase. It can't merely be a standard, everyday rifle like a Winchester 70 or Remington 700 that has just had the barrel and receiver seperated from the stock.

The barrel has to be seperate and screwed into the receiver by some clever means. The stock must be assembled there. Finally, after putting the rifle together, the shooter takes a scope out and attaches it to the rifle.

While this assembly is slowly and meticulously taking place, it handily gives the hero time to race up the stairs or run down the hallway of the hotel in order to thwart the crime at the last minute.

In real life, guys like Lee Harvey Oswald do their work with fairly common...even cheap rifles that do not come packed in neato cases and require assembly.

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Originally posted by Capt. Nemo

I'm no expert on landmines.

But one equipment gaff that I see a lot is a land mine that has to be "activated" before it explodes.

The cliche is as follows. The target is walking along usually during a tense moment in the film. They all of a sudden hear a "click" noise. The target looks down and sees a) they have stepped on a mine and can't move their foot.

Bouncing or bounding type of anti-personnel mines work in this manner: You step on the mine which is activated.When you remove your foot the mine is propelled upwards to about groin height and then explodes spreading ball-bearings 360 degrees.

or b) a trip wire has been pulled taught and they can't move because it would release the tension on the trip wire.

Forget it. As soon as tension is applied to the tripwire the mine explodes. The only thing that might save you is if there is slack in the tripwire or its attached to a hand grenade. A grenade takes four-five seconds to explode, giving the hero time to jump away.(e.g)

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Originally posted by Gristle McThornbody

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Originally posted by Citizen Carrier

Assassin's sniper rifle.

Whenever an assassin or sniper must kill the Senator/President/Candidate by making a long shot from a hotel room, etc., the movie must show the killer skillfully and slowly assembling his specially made rifle from an innocuous looking briefcase. It can't merely be a standard, everyday rifle like a Winchester 70 or Remington 700 that has just had the barrel and receiver seperated from the stock.

The barrel has to be seperate and screwed into the receiver by some clever means. The stock must be assembled there. Finally, after putting the rifle together, the shooter takes a scope out and attaches it to the rifle.

While this assembly is slowly and meticulously taking place, it handily gives the hero time to race up the stairs or run down the hallway of the hotel in order to thwart the crime at the last minute.

In real life, guys like Lee Harvey Oswald do their work with fairly common...even cheap rifles that do not come packed in neato cases and require assembly.

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Don't forget that these "assemble before firing" rifles become magically sighted in once assembled. Zero your sights because you've pretty much changed the barrel on your rifle? Not necessary with Acme's self-sighting sniper rifle...some assembly required.

"Hi, I'm Bob Evil!"

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