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How did Hector's revolver suddenly become a .45 automatic?

posted 12 years ago by ZolotoyRetriever
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Recall that earlier, in the radio station, Regina made some disparaging comments about Hector's gun, which was a revolver (she was looking at the bullets in the cylinder, said the gun might be all right for date night in the barrio). Yet a few scenes later, when Hector was in his mother's home and the young zombie was at the door, Hector pulled out a .45 automatic and racked the slide. Clearly not that revolver we saw earlier. I mean, there was no indication earlier that he had a different gun...

[–] j750_99 12 years ago

There was talk of going to an armoury earlier on in the film. I've always assumed that's where the automatic came from.

[–] cometzombie 12 years ago

Hector goes to the Armory and leaves the girls with the Mac-10s (When Sam's jams she comments "daddy would have gotten us Uzis"), he would therefore have armed himself better than his "date night in the bario" pistol as well.

[–] ZolotoyRetriever 12 years ago

Thanks. I don't remember the part about the armory. I'll have to watch it again.

[–] cometzombie 11 years ago

You don't see Hector visit the armory, it's just implied.

[–] mawo333 9 years ago

I just assumed that he took the gun from some gunestore or hardware store.

I mean its not like Europe where he would have had to drive a hundred miles to find a gunstore, or to search for a copcar (with cops being turned to dust) and take the cop gun

[–] mobocracy (898) 6 years ago

I haven't seen this since it first came out, but I'm guessing that the trip to the armory suggested by Regina was never filmed for budget reasons or was cut out.