![]() Her gun misfires, and she looks down the barrel to see the problem. There is also a scene where Henrietta is undergoing pistol training.Hillshire simply fixes the jam and starts firing at Franca. Averted in Gunslinger Girl - During the first encounter between Hillshire and Franca, Franca tricks Hillshire into misfiring his pistol.It actually made sense in this case, because the fight was at such close range that she didn't have time to clear the jam before she had a sword at her throat. In Brotherhood, a spent round gets stuck in Riza's pistol when she is fighting the leftover Fuhrer candidates, thus enabling her enemies to capture her (in the manga, she merely runs out of ammo).He is not shown throwing away the jammed gun, but we can assume he did, since he only carries one afterwards. One of Havoc's two guns stovepipes in chapter 37 of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, thus allowing Riza to jump into action.She just clears the jam and quickly resumes firing. In 'Her Problem,' Yu Lan's silenced pistol jams when she tries to shoot Kaname. Averted in Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid.All we do know that a gun will never run out of ammo unless something takes it out of commission. 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 completely useless? Aside from its use as a convenient way to disarm a character (since everyone from fresh-faced civilians who've never even seen a real gun before and two-bit thugs obsessed with looking dangerous at the expense of actually being dangerous, to life-long hunters and trained soldiers who by all accounts should know better, will invariably discard the jammed weapon), no one knows. Usual causes include a round failing to seat properly into the breech, a spent casing getting caught upon ejection (a condition known as 'stovepiping'), poor-quality ammunition (insufficient pressure to cycle the weapon) or poor handling while shooting (not enough energy from the firing is absorbed by the hands/arms to let the slide or bolt move far back enough to cycle, known as 'limp wristing'). It's well-known that even the best guns still jam every now and then after repeated firing. That said, professionals who use weapons say there are only two classes of weapon users: those who have had a weapon accidentally discharge, and those who eventually will have a weapon accidentally discharge this is why basic Gun Safety says to treat any loaded firearm as if this actually is true, just in case you're dealing with a weapon that's damaged or just poorly-designed enough that it is. ![]() 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. It doesn't matter if it's a cheap Saturday Night Special or a professional quality, $1200 SIG-Sauer, count on this one. Bonus point if the bullet hits a Mauve Shirt or other expendable mook. Any jarring or dropping of a cocked, chambered gun will discharge it.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:
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