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Addendum: One of my brother's friends (FJH) noticed while watching Lethal Weapon that machineguns always missed, and single-shot weapons (pistols, revolvers) hit. Get real! RadRob

Machineguns in action are notorious for missing most shots, especially in the hands of the untrained (and even the trained who may often shoot more for effect than substance), but do make up for it for when they eventually do hit. Shotguns are good stoppers they say. Film action is seriously flawed in violence-realism, mainly because too much realism would just turn people off the film. Besides, the fight scenes would just end up too short. Real violence is not very photogenic, just as real explosions tend to be mostly clouds of smoke and whizzing debris. Flirting with shoot-out realism in slow motion in the 70s films left many viewers with a bad taste.

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