re: #61 Mad Al-Jaffee

It’s from Blue Velvet, one of Lynch’s best.

Gun Nut Korner: In the climactic scene at the end, when Kyle McClachan (sp?) is hiding in the closet, and Dennis Hopper keeps firing a shot into random parts of the room with a suppressed M1911 (I think), then racking the slide, then firing another shot, then racking the slide (etc.)…. was this:

1) Typical Hollywood cluelessness about guns, or

2) A well-researched, realistic portrayal of an autopistol that’s been modified for a suppressor? (For instance, I know the H&K Mk 43 “SOCOM” pistol has a feature that allows the shooter to basically deactivate the self-loading mechanism, so as to cut down on noise for a suppressed shot.)