Hollywood is notorious for flubbing details on firearms. We’ve all seen suppressed revolvers, repeated “hammer falls” on Glocks, handguns being aimed with the slide to the rear, and magazines that never need swapping. It’s enough to make any semi-knowledgeable firearm aficionado want to throw up their hands and say, “Can’t they ever get it right?”
Every now and then, they actually do. Especially when you have an armorer like Rock Galotti working on the film, and guys like Taran Butler building guns and training actors for it.
To be fair, most errors are caused by poor editing, inexperienced artists or sound people, or firearms randomly chosen because they look cool to the director. However, when they do get it right, we tend to notice. This is especially true when the firearms in question are custom or exotic, like they were literally ripped from the pages of RECOIL.
is a perfect example of getting it right, while tempering what’s essentially a fantasy film. These exotic guns aren’t the tools of the trade
