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Also known tongue-in-cheek as "Shur Fine" guns because evidently, Hollywood doesn't trust the "big brands" when it comes to guns, as there are two things you can usually expect to see with firearms depicted in fiction: 1: Any jarring or dropping of a cocked, chambered gun will discharge it. 2: Jammed equals broken every time. Since this one's so common, it'd be easier to just list especially Egregious examples and subversions. Also see Rare Guns. Examples of Reliably Unreliable Guns include:

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  • Also known tongue-in-cheek as "Shur Fine" guns because evidently, Hollywood doesn't trust the "big brands" when it comes to guns, as there are two things you can usually expect to see with firearms depicted in fiction: 1: Any jarring or dropping of a cocked, chambered gun will discharge it. 2: Jammed equals broken every time. Since this one's so common, it'd be easier to just list especially Egregious examples and subversions. Also see Rare Guns. Examples of Reliably Unreliable Guns include:
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  • Also known tongue-in-cheek as "Shur Fine" guns because evidently, Hollywood doesn't trust the "big brands" when it comes to guns, as there are two things you can usually expect to see with firearms depicted in fiction: 1: Any jarring or dropping of a cocked, chambered gun will discharge it. It doesn't matter if it's a cheap Saturday Night Special or a professional quality, $1200 SIG-Sauer, count on this one. Never mind that practically all weapons designed after 1968 include a special mechanism to stop the hammer from falling unless the trigger is properly pulled, and that gunmakers had been adding them for a long time before that. If you bump it, it will go off. (Do note that you should always treat a real gun as though this were true, just in case.) 2: Jammed equals broken every time. It's well-known that even the best guns still jam every now and then after repeated firing. Usual causes include a round failing to seat properly into the breech, "stovepiping" (spent casing getting caught upon ejection), poor-quality ammunition (insufficient pressure to cycle the weapon) or poor handling while shooting, (too much energy from the firing is absorbed by the hands/arms, known as "limp wristing"). These errors take only a second or two to correct in real life, so why is it that when a firearm jams in a film or television show, it's suddenly rendered useless? Aside from its use as a convenient way to disarm a character, no one knows. All we do know that his gun will never run out of ammo unless something takes it out of commission, so the weapon-disabling jam is it. For that matter, Hollywood treats a misfire as being the same as a jam as well. If a round of ammo fails to fire, nobody simply pulls the trigger a second time if it's a revolver, or in the case of semiautomatics, manually works the action to clear the dud so they can keep shooting. Then again, this fits in with the typical Hollywood approach to plans in general. To a very limited extent, this can be Truth in Television, as it's possible to jam a weapon so severely that serious work is needed to get it back in order, and every now and then you will hear about gunmakers issuing safety recalls on guns that aren't drop-safe. But that does sort of prove the point about Hollywood's approach: the gun is being recalled because it's discharging when dropped is not considered normal operation in Real Life. Since this one's so common, it'd be easier to just list especially Egregious examples and subversions. Also see Rare Guns. Examples of Reliably Unreliable Guns include:
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