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posted 8 years ago by roofall
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Just made a comment on S01E02 recently and @around 33:50 in the episode, MacKenzie Porter (Marcy), she's handed a gun where the trigger is (half) pulled to make the slide go forward (snap into position), as the magazine is inserted (which I think is NOT the way a Glock works, but anyway - is it, even, a Glock) and she "expertly" forces (with her hand!) the replica gun's slide forward prior to loading it - without having her finger on the trigger...

Not to mention how it's, yet, ANOTHER show where they're pointing guns at people without keeping their finger on the trigger - what happens if they (actually) need to fire it, in the eyes of the director, meh. They're not in a tanning salon, but instead in a high-stress, life or death, situation.

^ Half-a-scene later they seem to change their mind (hands are somewhat kept out of focus, briefly), but then as the shot cuts-away, the index finger is (once again) resting to the side of the weapon. Certainly sometimes this may be the case, but clearly in the scene - they might HAVE TO discharge the weapon.

So annoying, blah. ;-/

(What's the point, WHY show things which make no sense. Get it together, heh.)

[–] drei85 8 years ago

The team members all have some lapses in training, it's no wonder that Hall said very few of them last very long.

How are they all so crap at staying off the grid?

[–] Fluffyness 8 years ago

It's not a Glock, I can't tell you what weapon it is exactly but there is a visible hammer when the weapon is being passed to her. The slide is closed when she's handed the weapon, she inserts the magazine, pulls back the slide and releases it in the normal way.

Not having your finger on the trigger is the proper way to handle any weapon unless you intend to fire it. Go watch Marvin's death in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction to see exactly why you never leave your finger on the trigger. When you're trained (law enforcement or military level training) in handling weapons you have already built up the muscle memory to quickly move your trigger finger from it's safe resting position to the firing position when you need to put someone down.