5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies) (Read 14819 times)

robtmc

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2015, 07:29:32 PM »
Shooting a car's gas tank causes the car to blow up.

Was it not NBC (or some other alphabet network, not that it matters) that got caught having a gas tank explode before the  "crash" car ever touched it?

Hey, the leftist media/Hollyweird had been peddling bullshit to the morons for decades and they continue to lap it up as the truth. 

How else to you think Obunga could have sneaked in?

dogman

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #21 on: March 19, 2015, 07:42:42 PM »
Throw a handful of cartridges in a camp fire and you will get a lot of ricocheting bullets.

mauidog

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #22 on: March 19, 2015, 08:54:20 PM »
Was it not NBC (or some other alphabet network, not that it matters) that got caught having a gas tank explode before the  "crash" car ever touched it?

Hey, the leftist media/Hollyweird had been peddling bullshit to the morons for decades and they continue to lap it up as the truth. 

How else to you think Obunga could have sneaked in?

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On November 17, 1992, Dateline NBC aired an hour-long investigative report titled "Waiting to Explode," which focused on allegations that General Motors' Rounded-Line Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks exploded upon impact when involved in collisions due to the poor design of the vehicle model's fuel tanks. Dateline '​s footage showed a sample of a low-speed accident in which the fuel tank exploded; the explosion during the crash test would later be discovered to have been rigged by producers with the program, who placed remotely controlled model rocket engines inside the truck's fuel tank to initiate the blast. The program did not disclose the fact that the accident was staged.

GM hired investigators from Failure Analysis Associates (FaAA, now Exponent) to study the footage; FaAA investigators discovered while reviewing the video that smoke had actually started to expel from the fuel tank six frames before the actual impact occurred. Acting on a tip from someone involved with the Dateline crash test, investigators with FaAA searched through 22 junkyards in Indiana before finding the charred wreckage of the GM pickups.[10][11]

It was also later revealed that the Dateline report had been dishonest about the fuel tanks rupturing and the alleged 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed at which the collision was conducted. The actual speed was found to be higher than stated, around 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), and after x-ray examination of the fuel tanks from the C/K pickups used in the televised collision, it was found that they had not ruptured and were intact.
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.   -- Jeff Cooper

justin1098

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2015, 07:18:47 AM »
How about this gun myth:
The liberals don't want to take away your guns.

suka

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2015, 08:10:05 AM »
Bullets do not penetrate cars & trees and is a safe zone.

mauidog

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #25 on: March 25, 2015, 10:31:48 PM »
People who get shot either fall down dead immediately, or they take for-friggin-ever to die!

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.   -- Jeff Cooper

Jl808

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #26 on: March 26, 2015, 08:50:48 AM »
Bad guy is shot and gets thrown across the room, backflips and breaks through the glass window.   :o  :o  :o
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Tom_G

Re: 5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
« Reply #27 on: March 26, 2015, 09:55:31 AM »
Bad guy is shot and gets thrown across the room, backflips and breaks through the glass window.   :o  :o  :o

I can't tell you how many times I've had this issue.  What strikes me as truly odd, though, is that when I bust into a room full of bad guys and mow them all down, each and every one of them finds something expensive and fragile to land on.  Once, the body actually went around a corner and into an adjacent room before landing on a Ming dynasty vase!  I'm glad I only shot him with a .22... if I'd used a real gun, he probably would have taken out the entire display of antiquities that the lady had in her living room.  My insurance premiums are simply ridiculous!  Thank goodness for the NRA's subsidies!
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