Thursday, July 07, 2005

Another boo-boo

[gun rant]

This boo-boo was on SVU on wednesday night (our time). Det. Benson was keeping an eye on a rape victim who was stalking her attacker and met her at a pistol range. The victim/stalker was shooting a .50 Desert Eagle (not the gun I'd recommend for a slight young lady, but there you go). They had a shot of her firing down range (quite well done) and one of the target, and when they showed the shot of the target, I was surprised to see around 14 holes in the target. Then the victim/terrorist - when asked by Det. Benson what she was shooting - said "it's a .50 calibre Desert Eagle with a 14 round clip."

[buzzer sound]

Unfortunately, the .50 cal Deagle only has a 7 round clip, and while an extended mag might be possible to make, when Benson pointed out that 14 round magazines were illegal in New York and the victim/stalker handed hers over, it was obviously a normal, single stack magazine.

Another important thing to realise here is that even if the slight, blonde victim could find the 14 round magazine, it would be around 6 inches+ long, and around an inch thick. How could she possibly hold and fire something with those dimensions with anything approaching comfort and accuracy? I mean, just look at the thing.



It's huge!

[/gun rant]

2 Comments:

Blogger Euan said...

I had the news on in the background. Can you spot the Freudian typo?

12:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oooooops typo.

Though they did talk about the suitability of the gun size as well as its dimensionally transcendental clip. Apparently she had to work at it for ages to even get the 'point and click interface' happening.

3:13 PM  

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