Cracked put up an article about gun myths that everyone believes. Movies have helped to perpetuate gun myths, the biggest one being silencers making guns go pshhhh. Mythbusers has covered some of these, so maybe we'll start seeing more physically correct movies.

Here is a list of the top 5 myths:
5. Silencers Turn Gunfire Into a Gentle Whisper
4. Machine Guns are Magical Death Machines
3. Bulletproof Vests Are Magical Force Fields
2. Gratuitous Cocking
1. Bullets Explode Everything

hmm....gratuitous cocking?  is that the same as gratuitous beaver?

Bump for a classic.

Bump for a classic.

shotgun blasts fling the victim back several yards

mahalo for the necro-post, 'hound

What about the nonsense that Teflon coated bullets automatically make them armor piercing?

How could we forget about the biggest movie myth:

People always drop dead immediately after being shot.

You mean a can doesnt turn a machine gun into what sounds like muffled dog farts!?!?!   

you can shoot any lock off

You missed those pyrotechnic bullets that throw sparks regardless of what they hit.

Damnedest thing I ever saw.  Sparklers everywhere. 

Oh yeah, the best: the perfect pistol marksmanship technique is to hold the gun sideways.  Makes for perfect aim, every time, the movies taught me so.

a fully loaded handgun can shoot 30 rounds +(depends how much bad guys)every ones a precision shooter, point shoot hit the target all the time.

Damn!

I thought all that is true if its in the movies!

You missed those pyrotechnic bullets that throw sparks regardless of what they hit.

they actually made a follow up article to this that addressed that.

http://www.cracked.com/article_19781_6-stupid-gun-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html

I've given up on owning target frames.  Every single time I hit my paper, the damned thing explodes.  I've even had shrapnel from the explosion kill people to either side of me!  I'm actually thinking of giving up the hobby altogether...

You can cut a hangman's noose from 200 yards  from horseback.  Seen it done a fistful of times..  So has Tuco.

I've also seen a good guy shoot the gun out of a bad guy's hand dozens of times with no bullet fragments peppering the bad guy.  And he just rubs his hand once or twice and is back in action swinging punches right away.

One of the things that surprised me the most when I bought my first pump-action shotgun was the incessant cocking required.  I mean, sure, the gun will fire if you cock it once, but it will only fire the bare minimum.  Repeated cocking makes the eventual blast more forceful, of larger area effect, and more accurate.  I find that by pumping it 300-400 times, I get a blast of such precision and scale that I can literally atomize fleeting thoughts!  Of course, with so much cocking required, I can only get two, maybe three blasts off in a day.

You can cut a hangman's noose from 200 yards  from horseback.  Seen it done a fistful of times..  So has Tuco.

I've also seen a good guy shoot the gun out of a bad guy's hand dozens of times with no bullet fragments peppering the bad guy.  And he just rubs his hand once or twice and is back in action swinging punches right away.

You made me think of this little gem.... http://www.policeone.com/police-products/firearms/videos/5955463-Sniper-shoots-gun-out-of-suicidal-mans-hand/

Shooting a car's gas tank causes the car to blow up.

This one is not a myth but cracks me up all the time... Dude holds a guy at gun point with a semi auto pistol after shooting up the place. Bad guy says something to egg the guy with the gun on. Then the guy with the gun cocks the gun cause he's even more upset like first I was just gonna shoot you but now I'm really pissed and I'm gonna let you hear the slide rack before I shoot you

Guy empties his pistol and then throws the empty pistol like damn the bullets didn't kill you, throwing the has got to work

Guy empties his pistol and then throws the empty pistol like damn the bullets didn't kill you, throwing the has got to work

Scoff if you will, but this actually happened to me.  I had successfully killed 36 of the 38 bad guys; all of the flunkeys, underlings, and henchmen.  All that remained were the lieutenant and the boss.  And I ran out of ammo!  I know, hard to believe!  I doubt I had expended more than 600 rounds, and I even had reloaded once!  Anyway, they were standing about 5 feet from me, and about 30 yards from some steel barrels.  I threw the empty gun at the barrels, which exploded in flame!  The blast threw me clear, while the fireball miraculously enveloped the two baddies, reducing them to burned roasts in about 3 seconds flat.  The worst part was, I landed on a dirty patch of the parking lot, and got oil stains on my favorite shorts.

^ LOL ! 

One of the funniest gun things I ever saw was in some movie with Tommy Lee Jones where he shoots the gun out of a bad guy's hand at an incredible distance.  Then he says, "Dayam" in surprise.