Much as I enjoyed the film, I thought it was extremely implausible that Ian and Terry could make workable guns simply from pieces of wood and metal. If this could be done, surely there would be lots of shootings in real life with such weapons, which can so easily be destroyed. Yet I've never heard of this happening.
shareThere were plenty of shootings. Look up zipgun on Wikipedia.
shareMake sure it's two words: Zip Gun. Otherwise yer just gonna get something about a punk band.
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When I was in junior high school, a friend made a gun in metal shop. So, not only did he make a gun, he made it in class where everyone could, potentially, see what he was doing. It was a one-shot .22 caliber. He would pull the bullets out of .22 shells and replace them with beeswax. Then he would go out and shoot high school girls in the ass with it.
Yeah, I guess he was a wacko. Fortunately, I didn't spend much time with him.
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As others have mentioned, it happens in real life so it's quite plausible. People were making guns with "wood and metal" hundreds of years ago, so it's not exactly the cutting edge of science.
Even if they had built submachine guns, that would be a pretty minor flaw compared to the wild inaccuracies in most movies.
Ok. I can believe hat is plausible to make one gun just rememebering when you made one when you were a children...but to make two and they work perfectly is that is amazing for me..
shareYeah, I would think it'd take a couple practice tries before getting it right. That would have hurt the flow of the movie though IMO, to show them learning and perfecting how to make the guns.
shareTerry (Colin Farrell) was a mechanic, so it makes sense that he'd be good at that kind of thing.
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Yeah, I would think it'd take a couple practice tries before getting it right. That would have hurt the flow of the movie though IMO, to show them learning and perfecting how to make the guns.The Colin Farrell character says he has made them before. share
http://www.thehomegunsmith.com/ZipGun.shtml
What does a scanner see? Into the head? The heart? Does it see into me? Clearly? Or darkly?
Not implausible at all.
The Eric Bana's Mossad hit squad used them to execute the female Dutch assassin in 'Munich' as well.
I think theirs were built into bicycle pumps!
Just because something isn't mass-produced in a factory somewhere doesn't mean it's implausible.
And John Malkovich used one in IN THE LINE OF FIRE.
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Apparently you haven't seen "Take The Money And Run" where Woody Allen's character escaped from prison by making a gun out of a bar of soap. Except while he was escaping, it started to rain, and his "gun" turned into a handful of suds.
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