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Reliably Unreliable Guns

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Reliably Unreliable Guns	comment	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: Any jarring or dropping of a cocked, chambered gun will discharge it. Bonus point if the bullet hits a Mauve Shirt or other expendable mook.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. 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. 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, 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) Despite these errors taking only a second or two to correct in real life, when a firearm jams in a film or television show, such an event will render it completely useless. Even worse, the wielder, be they fresh-faced civilians who've never even seen a real gun before, or life-long hunters and trained soldiers who by all accounts should know better, will invariably discard the jammed weapon. Of course, in fiction, where guns never run out of ammo unless something takes it out of commission? A weapon-disabling jam may be the only way to make someone actually stop shooting without being killed. For that matter, Hollywood treats a misfire as being the same as a jam as well. While very rare for modern ammunition made by reliable manufacturers, to the tune of about one-in-a-million or less, ammunition primers occasionally do not work as intended. If a round of ammo fails to fire, nobody in fiction simply pulls the trigger a second time if it's a revolver, or in the case of automatics, manually works the action to clear the dud so they can keep shooting.note Note that the recommended practice in the case of a misfire is to keep the weapon pointed in a safe direction for some time: the primer may, in fact, be accidentally slow-burning, and may go off without warning. Of course, if you're fighting for your life, this particular rule goes out the window. 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,note One such scenario is a "telescoped" or double-feed round, which occurs when a round is fired but the case is structurally unsound. Rather than being pulled from the chamber by the extractor, the extractor rips off the base of the casing. If the action continues to cycle and load a fresh round, the new round ends up stuffed partway inside the baseless case still stuck in the chamber. This frequently results in a hard jam and requires tools and time to clear - plus a safety check of the weapon afterwards to ensure it wasn't compromised if not in active combat. Either way, the weapon will be out of action for at least a few minutes and may require partial disassembly. 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 discharging when it's dropped is not considered normal operation in Real Life. Note too that at least in the US all such recalls are voluntary; firearm manufacturers are exempt from the Consumer Product Safety Act.note Automobile, aircraft, boat, and pesticide manufacturers are also exempt from the CPSA, since they all make things that, even when operating correctly, can still easily kill you â€” remember, that last one is poison. If the person is really Too Dumb to Live, they may look into the barrel to see why it isn't working. (If you have to be told why this is a bad idea, you should never touch a gun.) Since this one's so common, it'd be easier to just list especially egregious examples and subversions. Also see Convenient Misfire. See Reckless Gun Usage, Juggling Loaded Guns and I Just Shot Marvin in the Face for when danger is caused by user carelessness or stupidity.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_15ec2cb0	comment	Into the Radius requires players to keep their guns and magazines well maintained. Poorly maintained magazines won't be able to hold the max amount of cartridges, while a poorly maintained gun is likely to give false positives or jam while firing, requiring manual operation of the slide.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_1645fb27	comment	All-New Ultimates: One of the Skull's guns got jammed during the fight. His friend told him to throw it away, then.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_1670bd19	comment	In S.T.A.L.K.E.R., damaged guns can jam... but can be cleared by reloading. Keep using them, though, and eventually they won't be able to go through a full magazine without a jam, to the point where they'll probably end up getting you killed more often than they kill what they're pointed at. Eventually they'll just break completely. In the two later games, or in the first with the proper Game Mods, you can have guns repaired for a cost, or find the extremely rare repair kits with, again, the right mods. Justified in that weapon cleaning and maintenance kits are something that regular stalkers aren't skilled enough to use and as such most don't carry them, but gunsmiths, mechanics and technicians obviously do as part of their trade. Special mention goes to the IL 86, or what is known in the real world as the L85A1 rifle, which is a hilariously unreliable piece of shit that starts to have problems after only a few magazines. There's really nothing like trying to clear a jam out of your shoddy British rifle while you are being chased down a tunnel by a pack of terrifying, blood-sucking mutant predators.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_1676beee	comment	This is played with on Stan Lee's Lucky Man. Harry is supernaturally lucky due to an ancient bracelet he is wearing. One of Golding's mooks tries to shoot Harry but the first two shots miss. On the third shot the mook's gun comes apart in her hand and the slide flies backwards and knocks her unconscious. It has been established that Golding likes to hire former special forces soldiers who use modern weapons and would know how to maintain them properly. The odds of the gun failing that spectacularly are enormous and it shows how powerful the bracelet really is.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_17af7793	comment	In Trading Places, Winthorpe (played by Dan Aykroyd) tries to kill himself with a Colt .45 automatic that he just purchased from a pawn shop; the gun fails to fire. Disgusted, Winthorp throws the gun away. It promptly discharges when it hits the ground.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_186da02a	comment	Borderlands 3 replaces Bandits with the "Children of the Vault", who as a gun manufacturer aside from maintaining most of the aesthetics replaces the Bandit guns' signature high magazines with an Overheating mechanic: Their guns technically have Bottomless Magazines, but if fired for too long you'll have to go through a lengthy animation of replacing a broken gun part or even literally cooling off the gun with a water pistol.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_1ba7ddd3	comment	Justified in Maiden Rose when Klaus' gun happens to jam in the middle of a Mexican Standoff (which is just bad timing) and when he gets out of that he can't fix it anyway because his one arm is badly wounded and the morphine has finally worn off. His teammate promptly fixes the issue for him.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_1df8f66b	comment	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries had Miss Fisher and Dot staying in a country hotel. Dot is unpacking, and wonders what to do with Phryne's gold-plated revolver. She picks the top drawer of the nightstand. Some prankster has concealed a live snake in there, causing Dot to scream and drop the revolver. It fires on impact, tearing a chunk out of the skirting board and causing Dot to scream again.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_1f7a7d89	comment	In Lockout, set in 2079, a gun not only falls out of a man's pants, it discharges directly at the policeman who bothered the man. But then, everything in the movie seems to be made exactly so the incredibly ridiculous plot could happen, even if it doesn't make any sense at all.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_20336460	comment	All guns in Jagged Alliance and its sequels have a percentage condition rating and a rating of reliability for both the gun and the ammo. The more reliable guns work better at low condition than other guns and wear slower. Guns in good condition are impossible to jam, while guns with 50% or less condition will jam every other shot. Guns below 10% or so are useless hunks of metal. Jagged Alliance 2 adjusts things slightly. A gun always has a chance to fire, no matter how degraded it is, but if it gets to 0%, it will never work again, regardless of repair. The lower the condition of the gun, the more likely that it will jam, and the chance to clear the jam by refiring the gun drops significantly. Also, when a jam does occur, there's only about a 50/50 chance you'll be able to clear it and re-fire the gun before you run out of time units. Presumably simple malfunctions that can be cleared with a tap and a forward assist are abstracted for simplicity's sake.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_2129f55	comment	The Return of the Pink Panther: Dreyfus not only repeatedly gets his pistol mixed up with a lighter that looks the same as his pistol, but his pistol also never fires when he wants it to and always fires when he doesn't.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: Played straight in one episode where a sawn-off shotgun is thrown out of a window by the villains and bump-fires into a passerby, killing her and leading the protagonists to the original crime committed with the weapon. Averted in a later episode, where Mac Taylor and his gun fall at least 30 feet onto a metal grate — the gun bounces, but doesn't go off. Played straight again in season 9's "Command+P" where a 3-D printed gun needs to be heated (something like in a kiln) in order to work properly, but the prototype is stolen before that happens. The second time it's used, it explodes in the perp's hand. When another from the printer is tested in the lab under the same conditions, it explodes, too.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Parodied. To ease Marge's worries about his new gun, Homer turns on the safety, causing it to discharge into a photo of Marge. Then he notices that he actually turned the safety off, turns it on, and causes another misfire. After a stunned second, he decides to gently set the gun on the table...and a couple of seconds later it goes off anyhow, ricocheting off several surfaces before striking a nearby knife which embeds itself in the picture, right between Marge's eyes. As Lisa says, "No offense Mom, but that was pretty cool." Note that Homer's gun was a revolver, which require long trigger pulls to fire and (without aftermarket modifications) don't even HAVE safeties. And then there's this scene from "The PTA Disbands!": Springfield Elementary goes on a field trip to a Civil War fort in a bus so dilapidated that braking it involves having the students hold their coats out the windows as parachutes:
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_2bbcacd9	comment	In the 1953 Looney Tunes short "Bully for Bugs", the bull Bugs is fighting at one point ends up swallowing a rifle Bugs was planning to shoot him with. He very quickly discovers he can fire bullets from his horns by smacking the end of his now-rifle-shaped tail against the ground — but then after he runs out of bullets, he attempts to reload by swallowing a box of high-powered rounds, with disastrous results.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_2e2efbf9	comment	Back to the Future: Marty is saved repeatedly from being shot by Libyans because their rifle jams. They are shooting an AK-47, which are famed for their reliability even under the harshest conditions. However, we do see them simply trying to clear the jam rather than abandoning the gun immediately. And then Doc's own gun fails to fire, too. The gun — a Single Action Army revolver — uses one of the simplest repeating actions in existence, so it could be either that the round was a dud, or Doc never loaded it in the first place.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: Romulan handguns seem to be of pretty low quality. When Narissa goes Guns Akimbo on the Artifact's xBs in "Broken Pieces", one of her disruptor pistols fires about a dozen shots before it malfunctions, spitting sparks and smoke. Since it wasn't her own, she returns it to the Romulan guard she borrowed it from and sardonically tells him that he'll need a new gun.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_2fbe5c1b	comment	In an episode of the Lovejoy TV series ("The Axe-Man Cometh") an antique flintlock which had been used solely as a display item for decades was apparently loaded, since when it was grabbed and used to try and bluff the eponymous axe-man it actually went off leaving him with an Ash Face.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_32c541e6	comment	One of Havoc's two guns stovepipes in chapter 37 of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, thus allowing Riza to jump into action. He is not shown throwing away the jammed gun, but we can assume he did, since he only carries one afterwards. 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). 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.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2: None of the guns jam, but this trope is played with by two of the gun manufacturers. Bandit guns are made from scrap, covered with spikes and stupid-but-cool paintjobs, and have misspelled and grammatically incorrect names. They have huge mag sizes and decent power, but low accuracy and the slowest reloads. Tediore guns are inexpensive, plastic and boxy with drab or cheesy colour schemes and names that sound like bargain-bin-product adverts. They're below average on almost all stats, but they're dirt cheap and have a unique trait - instead of reloading, the guns are thrown away and explode like a grenade before reappearing in the owner's hand, giving them the fastest reloads (though with the added loss of you losing all the ammo that was left in them, since that's what powers the explosion - tossing a gun with a nearly full mag will do much more damage than one with an empty mag). The explosion is actually a flaw of the digistruction procedure that remakes them, but they advertise it as a perk. Played for Laughs with two guns in the series: "Miss Moxxi's Crit" in the Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep DLC falls out of your hands one reload in every ten and has to be recovered, and the Tediore "Boxxy Gunn" in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is prone to exploding in your hands if reloaded prematurely.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_352c7503	comment	In Airheads a character drops an MP5K, causing it to spin around on the floor and fire its entire magazine, all by itself. The entire MP5 line is widely regarded as among the world's finest sub-machine guns, in use by numerous special forces, and they typically cost in the low five-digits.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3583b777	comment	While all guns operate perfectly in normal conditions in Eternal Darkness, one of the insanity effects makes one character drop a flintlock pistol to the ground while reloading his other one, causing it to discharge and kill him. He doesn't actually die though.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3692a962	comment	In Lord of War, Villain Protagonist and Arms Dealer Yuri is nearly executed by a pair of thugs in Africa. One aims his AK-47 (which was sold to the thug's boss by Yuri, naturally), pulls the trigger... nothing. Clears the jam, sticks it in Yuri's face again, pulls the trigger... nothing.note The film had earlier pointed out the famous reliability of the AKs, but the thug is mishandling it in a way which really can cause an AK to jam. Yuri (who is both completely stoned and suffering the effects of a Villainous BSoD to the point where he'd willingly embrace death), points out that they'll do that sometimes and offers to fix the jam for him... the thug just hits him with the butt and knocks Yuri out. Well, it was worth a shot, anyway.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_36ee2abe	comment	In Paranoia, standard-issue weapons certainly don't malfunction 5% of the time. Maybe they were sabotaged by Commie mutant traitors. You aren't a Commie mutant traitor, are you? Generally, the more destructive the weapon is when it works, the more destructive it is when it doesn't. And the harder it is to fix. (Or just prevent it from blowing up. Or just unstrap yourself from it and outrun the blast radius.) And if it was only assigned to you for the duration of the mission, then the more expensive the fine for allowing valuable mission equipment to be damaged. As for those experimental weapons that the Troubleshooters were field-testing for Research and Design... Well, perhaps the Troubleshooters didn't maintain them properly. What's that, you say? The maintenance instructions aren't available at their security clearance? Huh, go figure.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3a27461a	comment	In Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Alan attempts to fling Pat's shotgun into the sea. It lands on the pier railing and goes off, shooting Pat.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3c4dea59	comment	In Planet Mercenary, weapons with Failure Prone will explode if triples are rolled. This includes rolling all 6s, which also may guarantee double damage. Certain Mayhem cards may result in weapons running out of ammunition (or getting stuck in targets for weapons such as knives) or being damaged enough to require repair out of combat to unjam them.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3d69d7fd	comment	Inevitable in Upotte!!, given that two of the four principle characters are the personifications of weapons that are infamous for being this in reality. Elle (the L85A1) in particular has some part of her weapon fall off or break at least once or twice an episode, nearly every time she tries to pull the trigger, but Sixteen (the M16A4) also gets hit with an extreme case of this during the jungle war-games arc, after eating a too-spicy chicken nugget before one round of the games (which translates to her weapon as running ammo that's too dirty through it). She ends up experiencing a failure to feed properly after every single shot, to the point that she only wins by adopting a ridiculous shooting method of holding the grip in her off-hand and fanning the forward assist with each individual finger of her other hand after every shot.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3f6c7a68	comment	In Cold Days, he gets a somewhat-temporary upgrade to a lever-action rifle and has no trouble using it, and by Battle Grounds, he has an absolutely massive revolver again, but the incredible concentration of magic power all over Chicago as a result of the Formor invasion has absolutely zero effect on the many, many guns being used by everyone else, lending credence to the idea that Harry's problems are psychosomatic.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3fe0a130	comment	Subverted in the series finale of Ugly Betty — Wilhelmina is accidentally shot by an alcohol-fueled Tyler. As a final favor to Claire, Wilhelmina lies to the press and tells them she was shot when she dropped her gun while cleaning it. The reception is dubious but her lie still works.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_3ff7574d	comment	Averted in The Hard Way. Michael J. Fox's character, a spoiled naive actor researching a cop role with a tough cop played by James Woods, gets lucky in a shootout where a man firing at him seems to run out of bullets. The cop demonstrates that it had merely jammed by knocking the gun against a newsstand to clear the jam, and then shooting into the newsstand with that gun.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_401c5a83	comment	Star-Lord's third special attack in Marvel: Contest of Champions has this Played for Laughs when he kicks back his opponent then levels his gun at them, only for it to fizzle and spark when he pulls the trigger. He frantically starts hitting it and finally manages to get a shot off just as the opponent rushes at him again.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_405294e3	comment	The F.B.I.: In "The Impudents", the Victim of the Week appears to have been murdered: shot from the opposite side of his cabin. However, Jim eventually discovers that the victim had been planning murder himself, but changed his mind and threw the gun across the room. The gun went off when it hit the vent and shot him through the heart.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_4139b0e7	comment	Misfiring guns feature prominently in both the backstory and the climax of Unforgiven, which is more appropriate for the time period, in which lower quality guns and ammo were more common. The rainy night of the climax might also have played a factor. Little Bill, when telling W.W. Beauchamp the real story about how English Bob killed Two-Gun Corcoran, explains that Corcoran's Walker Colt exploded on him, allowing Bob to get the drop on him. This was a problem that Walker Colts really had.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_41b0198a	comment	This is why in The Dresden Files Harry Dresden only uses older weapons like revolvers: his magical aura interferes with any kind of technology, and the better the tech, the faster he breaks it. Revolvers are functionally simplistic, and can't jam. Notably, he doesn't use his magical hex on handguns, likely because a handgun failing doesn't mean it won't shoot. In the first book Storm Front, this applies during the final confrontation. Harry disrupts the villainous warlock's huge spell, sending an overload of magical energy all over the place. The warlock's accomplices open fire with an Uzi that quickly jams, and Harry notes they're probably lucky it didn't explode. When they resume fire, it's with a revolver. Incidentally, the fact that he gets better results from a revolver than a modern Glock might be evidence that Harry's Walking Techbane tendencies are at least partly psychosomatic; revolvers are less vulnerable to common jam conditions and largely undiscriminating about the quality of the ammunition, but in terms of mechanical complexity and the total number of moving parts they're about even with a semi-automatic. And yet we never hear about Harry having to take any of the three revolver models he's owned over the years to a gunsmith for a warranty replacement of the mainspring or something. In Cold Days, he gets a somewhat-temporary upgrade to a lever-action rifle and has no trouble using it, and by Battle Grounds, he has an absolutely massive revolver again, but the incredible concentration of magic power all over Chicago as a result of the Formor invasion has absolutely zero effect on the many, many guns being used by everyone else, lending credence to the idea that Harry's problems are psychosomatic.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_438b63e4	comment	Halo: Reach also gives Grunts an Idle Animation where they appear to be clearing a jam on whatever weapon they are currently using.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_44d7668c	comment	Played with in the Marvel One-Shots short film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer. Agent Coulson, in a convenience store during a robbery, lets the crooks know that he has a gun. When they want him to toss it over, he remarks he'd rather not and risk it going off, so he asks if it would be okay to slide it to them. As the guys agree, he takes them out using a bag of flour. All this in the time it takes to fill-up his car at the pumps.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_4824b3b3	comment	Fallout Tactics includes the Chauchat (mentioned in the Real Life subpage) as a Joke Weapon, which cannot actually be used and serves no purpose whatsoever.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_4b356e7c	comment	In one episode of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.., our hero is struggling with an assailant while his lady friend prepares to hit said bad guy with a nearby pistol. Brisco tells her to stop, beats the bad guy, then demonstrates that the impact would've caused the flintlock to go off. Into her.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_4cc06582	comment	Seen in Hot Fuzz, where one of the heroes intentionally throws his shotgun at the cobblestone street while surrendering, causing it to go off and hit a bad guy. Surprisingly semi-accurate; the shotgun they drop, a Winchester 1300, is a model that isn't listed as drop-safe in real life.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_4cd32aa7	comment	In Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, however, firearms have misfire rules in every edition: In 1st editions misfires were a 50/50 chance of the gunpowder either needing to be re-ignited or re-filled (the former wasting a turn and the latter requiring a re-load) but no jamming, 2nd edition firearms straight-up jammed 5% of the time and needed a gunsmith to clean them up, 3rd edition guns exploded when misfiring, harming their user and breaking down until repaired, and in 4th edition firearms' chance of a Fumble is greatly increased.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_4efed37e	comment	In Robin Hood (1973) there's a Running Gag where Trigger's crossbow Old Betsy goes off should Trigger so much as bump it. This happens regardless of whether the "safety" on the crossbow is set, and maybe even happens more often if the safety is on.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars has this trope up on occasion. In the Season 3 episode "Clone Cadets", one clone trooper can be briefly be seen trying to clear a jam before being gunned down. Season 5 has a lightsaber-based example in "A Test Of Strength", where Pietro assembled his lightsaber with the emitter array backwards, and is scolded by Huang who points out that when activated the lightsaber would literally blow up in his face. This becomes a Chekhov's Gun later when Pietro goads a Space Pirate to activate it. Somehow, the explosion does not kill anyone or even particularly damage the lightsaber's crystal.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_57cb507e	comment	In The Last Dinosaur big game hunter Masten Thrust throws away his hunting rifle after it jams while trying to shoot a Tyrannosaur that's about to attack them. Not only does he make no effort to clear the jam, but he never even tries to reacquire the rifle later, instead only taking the scope to attach to his new crossbow. The fact that he's both a lifelong hunter and a firearms collector makes this all the more implausible.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ocelot stovepipes his own semiautomatic pistol when he tries a fancy move he'd heard of for the first timenote Basically, copying a move he'd heard about from Middle East fighters, which involves working the action of your gun after reloading, every time. This is to ensure that the gun always has a round loaded, no matter if the chamber was empty or not. However, because he hadn't practiced the maneuver, he works the action too fast, resulting in the aforementioned stovepipe. Ocelot then attempts to pistol whip Naked Snake with his gun instead of clearing it, despite the fact that Snake has just taken down half a dozen of his men with little more than his bare hands. Clearly it was his turn to hold the Idiot Ball. Snake easily counters, and when Ocelot drops his gun the cartridge pops out, clearing the jam. Snake then explains this to Ocelot (and the audience), attributing it to the latter's faults and inexperience. Since the game is a prequel it establishes why he's Revolver Ocelot in the present/near-future storyline. In the introduction cutscene of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Snake tries to fire an AK-102, but it jams after two shots. He does try to cycle the action manually and clear it, but it won't budge, and he ends up tossing it to the ground; a Codec call to Otacon reveals that the ammo in that magazine was of poor quality. He lampshades the lack of jams in actual gameplay by noting how rare that specific type of jam isnote Basically, abnormal combustion caused the cartridge to stick to the chamber rather than cycling the action as normal. This is also invoked as a gameplay mechanic in most of the games. All firearms used in combat in most of the games have identification locks built in, hence why the player can't just break the neck of the first guard they find and use his assault rifle for the whole game. MGS4 in particular shows that the older varieties of locks from the original Metal Gear Solid (and presumably MGS2) simply stopped the user from being able to make the trigger-pulling motion with their finger, while more modern locks instead make the gun itself act like the epitome of this trope, failing to fire on pulling the trigger even with a full magazine loaded and a round in the chamber (ironically, this is the game that introduced a character who can launder ID-locked guns for you to use). MGS3 is set in 1964, long before ID-locks and nanomachines, so the explanation there is that Naked Snake would prefer to take a fresh, never-fired weapon from an armory that is guaranteed to work how it should, rather than steal one from an enemy in the field and risk getting a poorly-maintained one that could jam when he needs it and get him killed.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_5bb3aaab	comment	Referenced in Ghost in the Shell (1995), with the Major asking if Togusa uses a revolver because he is afraid of them both having jammed guns at once if he had a semiautomatic.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_5cb7fc72	comment	In System Shock 2, your guns are not only likely to jam at the drop of a pin; repairing a jam is an extremely complicated technical operation involving detailed cybernetically-enhanced skills, a consumable nanotech-based resource, and a small minigame. Then again, given that laser rifles can somehow jam in this game... Enemy weapons aren't immune either, no matter how quickly you kill the shotgun-armed mutants that come after you, you'll always find the gun they had on them had conveniently jammed by the time you were ready to loot their corpse. Word of God is that there was supposed to be an in-game explanation for this: basically The Many had released a corrosive gas that only affected mechanisms into the environment. Unfortunately, the audio log explaining this was left out of the finished game. On the other hand, given that not only would the spaceship's life support but also the Many's own cyborgs be just as affected by that gas, it's probably for the best that it was left out.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_5f11779	comment	Fortitude: After Yuri has tricked Eric into dropping his gun in the season 1 finale, his gun misfires, allowing Eric to attack him hand-to-hand.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_631805af	comment	In the introduction cutscene of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Snake tries to fire an AK-102, but it jams after two shots. He does try to cycle the action manually and clear it, but it won't budge, and he ends up tossing it to the ground; a Codec call to Otacon reveals that the ammo in that magazine was of poor quality. He lampshades the lack of jams in actual gameplay by noting how rare that specific type of jam isnote Basically, abnormal combustion caused the cartridge to stick to the chamber rather than cycling the action as normal.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_663b2cb6	comment	During a combat sequence in Kelly's Heroes, a 30-cal machine gun jams at a very inopportune time; possibly because the operator didn't have someone to help him feed the belt ammo. Fortunately, the Germans shooting back at him apparently attended the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, because he manages to clear the jam and kill them all anyway. The ambush on the road beside a minefield has one of the Americans gun jam on him at the worst possible time, and unfortunately he gets shot while trying to clear the jam.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition allowed the arquebus, a primitive rifle, but gave it a chance of backfiring and damaging the user if a 1 or 2 was rolled. Partly as a measure of Fantasy Gun Control, but also Truth in Television. Also necessary for play balance. The arquebus did 1d10 damage... unless you rolled a 10, in which case you got another 1d10 damage. With no upper limit. It was entirely within the rules (not very likely, but within the rules) for a 1st level character to one-shot a maximum age Red Dragon with one of these things. This is a major aspect of the 5th edition Raygun Gothic setting of Dr. Grordbort's Scientific Adventure Violence. Rayguns are outright compared to early flintflocks and blunderbusses, with a small chance of malfunctioning that increases as upgrades are made to them. In fact, just about every piece of modern technology has chance of malfunctioning in a sometimes spectacular way.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, guns with a poor condition (which is fixed by breaking apart a matching gun for parts to repair your gunnote or anything that works slightly similar to it with the latter's "Jury Rigging" perk) can jam when loading. This includes the first round of a bolt-action rifle failing to load, the magazine of a submachine gun needing a good whack on the bottom, or the door to a laser pistol's pop-out battery not closing. Considering this is supposed to be two-hundred years After the End, which was probably when the gun and cleaning supplies for it were made, this is a Justified Trope. It's also defied in that when that gun does jam, your character simply works the action again until it does load. Dropping a gun won't discharge it either. Tired of that poor-condition 10mm pistol now that you have an M1 Garand-alike, and don't want to lug it around? Drop it on the ground, and it... lands. One point in 3 touches in this trope in a possible lampshade. You can rescue an initiate in the Brotherhood of Steel who is in hiding and complaining that his gun is jammed, claiming it is useless. If your character has decent Small Guns, you can help him fix the jam by simply pulling back the charging handle, and he will be armed again. Fallout 3 has other examples of this trope outside of gameplay. A recurring terminal entry often found in the Enclave camps that appear after they seize Project Purity has a soldier report on a Feral Ghoul just staring at him while he was in the middle of clearing a jam. Another terminal in the Citadel mentions that the predecessor to the in-game Laser Pistol was prone to overheating and the in-game Laser Rifle is not the most advanced model available, but is more common because the titanium crystal housing it had was more likely to remain intact after 200 years of no maintenance than the gold alloy crystal housing of the later models. Finally, the Miss Launcher (a missile launcher that fires in an arc like a grenade launcher) is said to be a failed attempt by the Brotherhood Outcasts to increase the range; and it was the third attempt to do so, with the prior versions not working at all. Earlier games in the series just had the gun have a chance to lose all the ammo in its current magazine on a critical miss, though energy weapons supposedly explode on a really bad roll on the critical miss table. A few Game Mods for 3 and New Vegas add a slight chance for a jam on any use of a firearm, modified by its current condition. Fallout Tactics includes the Chauchat (mentioned in the Real Life subpage) as a Joke Weapon, which cannot actually be used and serves no purpose whatsoever.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_707bae8c	comment	In Half-Life: Alyx, Russel tosses a gun he claims is unloaded to you, only for it to go off when it lands on a car's hood. Without missing a beat, he notes that it's definitely unloaded now.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_718f3ed1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops II has a possible case in the first level, where Jonas Savimbi is handed a Hawk MM1 grenade launcher near the start, but players who pay close attention to him during the opening firefight will notice he can't get the thing to work (or someone forgot to load it) and he eventually gives up and starts using an FAL like the rest of his troops.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_724ece87	comment	In the finale of The Warrior's Way, one of the outlaws has a machine gun braced on another's shoulder. After he has his arms cut off, the gun starts firing on full auto, pivoting on the corpse of the partner and neatly stitching across a horde of outlaws who were standing behind him.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_72a1ac51	comment	In the mission "Reuniting the Families" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Ryder hands your character an ancient, POS AK-47 that jams to the point of uselessness right when you need it.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: Despite the page quote, this is oddly averted, despite the character's twin habits of carelessness with his tools and causing embarrassing and accidental injuries to his coworkers. Indeed, later in the scene quoted, after a call girl has been struck with a poison dart fired from a pen, Archer tells Cyril that the belief that if something would happen, it would come from the .25 Chekhov Pistol is an incredibly facile argument. One incident does occur in "Sea Tunt: Part II". Archer smuggles a pistol onto the underwater platform inside a camera. He claims that the safety is on, but notes that Krieger tends to make some strange modifications to ISIS issue weaponry. Sure enough, Archer's pistol goes off, causing the place to flood. Another example happens during "White Nights", when Archer's stolen pistol fails to fire at a very bad time. Strangely, the pistol in question is the normally ultra-reliable Tokarev TT-33.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_74e8b407	comment	A non-gun example. In Midway (2019), the US sailors don't have a good opinion of their torpedoes, and indeed the sole American torpedo to actually hit a Japanese ship breaks apart on impact without detonating. This is Truth in Television: Depression-era budget cuts meant the torpedoes weren't tested nearly as thoroughly as they should have been, and so the ones available in the early war were simply awful, prone to running too deep, circular runs, and detonator failures. In contrast, the Japanese Type 93 "Long Lance" is regarded as the finest torpedo in the world at the time.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_761813a6	comment	Jams happen periodically in Band of Brothers. The characters usually get to work clearing them, sometimes having trouble with it and sometimes not. All the actors were trained in WW2 weapons handling (as their characters would have been) so, as in real life, the ability to sort out a jam would depend on the actor's own weapon skill. Not to mention their concentration. Many of the times that jams weren't quickly handled occurred under fire, when both actor and character would find it hard to focus. A particularly notable example is in the second episode, during the assault on Brecourt Manor. Lt. Compton rushes into a trench to attack the soldiers guarding an artillery cannon, and his Thompson fails to firenote The book notes that it wasn't his gun; he found it after losing his during the combat drop, and hadn't had time to fire it or inspect it properly to determine the condition. Fortunately, Lt. Winters attacks from the other side at the same time, and the enemy soldiers are routed before anything can happen to Buck. He's later shown exclusively using an M1 Garand for the rest of the series.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_76e539c2	comment	Another jamming aversion in an early episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, where after Teana's old magic-firing pistol jams at a critical moment during training, she just fixes the problem in a few seconds and goes back to shooting.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_7988cb68	comment	In the segment of the Mass Effect fic The Translation in Blood set during the First Contact War, a turian scout (the future Councilor Sparatus) is able to capture then-Lieutenant Hannah Shepard (Spacer Shepard's mother) because her rifle got caught on something when she was fleeing and went off, wounding her in the arm.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_7b429ebd	comment	In Saints Row 2, you interrupt the trial of your partner Johnny Gat and hold up a bailiff. At your command, the bailiff drops his gun, which goes off, prompting everyone (except for Gat) to duck for cover, with Gat's lawyer popping back up for a moment to ask if anyone got hit and needs his expertise.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_7c063ba4	comment	In The Oregon Trail II, when hunting, there is a random chance that you will accidentally shoot yourself, possibly resulting in instant death.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_7f87dafc	comment	Type 1 is played straight in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: CagalliWhose experience with firearms may amount to a crash-course in the desert about a month before throws a pistol in frustration, causing it to discharge. AthrunWho has received military training with pistols from ZAFT very nearly gets hit by the stray round and immediately chastises her for being stupid enough to throw a loaded and cocked pistol.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_7f9dbbcc	comment	Far Cry 2 allows for weapons' condition to decrease, causing the gun to jam while firing. This involves the player character struggling with his weapon and examining it until you hit the reload key, which fixes the problem. Every weapon can jam except the IEDs and flare gun; from simple misfeeds to a flamethrower springing a gas leak or an RPG failing to ignite and spinning on the ground directly in front of you before exploding. If the gun's condition reaches zero, it violently breaks into pieces, with the entire front receiver of a rifle or trigger of an RPG breaking off. Notable is how the AK-47's notorious reliability is acknowledged in-game and is less likely to jam on you, if ever. The AK runs through about a thousand rounds before getting into poor enough condition to start jamming, and it takes about two hundred more before blowing up. The golden AKs last even longer. The only gun in the game that doesn't jam or misfire is the flare gun, and even that still blows up eventually. Particularly notable in Far Cry 2 is how little time a gun actually lasts; it can go from a shining, brand-new weapon to a stained, corroded wreck within hours at best, with some weapons like the USAS-12 visibly corroding with every shot and the Dart Rifle taking, at best with the reliability upgrade, thirty shots to blow up. The vast majority of guns in this game must be held together with nothing more than chewing gum and reassuring platitudes; that or the FC2 universe is afflicted by turbo-rust. Another extremely silly aspect of this mechanic is that jams always happen before a gun fires while failures always happen afterwards, meaning the player character will operate the pump of a shotgun before shooting solely to catch a shell in the ejection port even though they already did so after the last shot, or a weapon will successfully fire, cycle, and then explode. And despite supposedly being a highly-trained mercenary, the player character has no idea how to maintain their weaponry, and must settle for grabbing new weapons off enemies or from their stash at the arms dealer's place. There's also the weapons' physics-defying proclivity to fling parts of themselves toward the player's face when they fail.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_84ff882f	comment	Played for laughs in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka: when Isaac Hayes slips on a dropped bullet after draping a ludicrous number of guns on his person, seemingly every single one of those guns discharges in one long, slow, agonizing sequence
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_854344f9	comment	In Schindler's List, GÃ¶th is about to execute a worker, as he has done several times before already, but his Luger jams. As his lieutenant tries unsuccessfully to clear the jam, GÃ¶th takes out another pistol (a CZ 27) and tries to shoot him again... but the backup pistol also jams. GÃ¶th, after multiple attempts to shoot are foiled in this manner, eventually pistol whips the worker and then leaves in a huff. Like much of the film, this was based on a specific real-life incident.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_8613742a	comment	A hunter in one of the Hunter: The Reckoning video games is shown to suffer a stovepipe jam in his handgun when fighting, and mentions having to use his knife instead. It takes far less time to rack the slide of a pistol than to switch to a knife.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_8cc1090a	comment	In the sci-fi comedy Sleeper, a Running Gag involves a different part of a laser cannon blowing up every time they try to fire it at Woody Allen.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_8d81bb26	comment	In one episode of NCIS, a perp drops his recently fired gun while surrendering. Tony proceeds to flip out on the guy. Still averted, as the gun didn't fire. And also averts Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety, as roughly handling a loaded weapon with a round in the chamber is still a stupid thing to do.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_909f9c39	comment	In Get Shorty, Ronnie Wingate comes across Ray Barboni beating up movie producer Harry Zimm, who owes Ronnie and his partner money. Ronnie, who is more experienced with threatening violence than actually performing violence, tries to intimidate Ray by revealing the gun tucked into his waistband. Ray, who has much greater experience enacting violence and is already holding his gun in his hand at the time, mocks Ronnie by pointing out that he would need to be a quick-draw artist for his gun to be any use in the situation. Ronnie (visibly nervous at this point) tries to bluff his way out of the situation by asking if Ray's gun (an AMT Backup, a small but effective pistol) is a "Wop 9", calling it "the Fiat of guns, always jammin' on you at the wrong time." The second Ronnie finishes his sentence, Ray shoots him in the chest four times.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech's ultra-series autocannons are considered a version of this by some players due to their chance of randomly breaking down and becoming dead weight for the rest of the game when using their optional double rate of fire (their main defining feature). Background-wise, the fact that even the Clans, who unlike the nations of the Inner Sphere never lost the technology and have been using UACs for over two hundred years, somehow never managed to eliminate this problem definitely plays the trope dead straight. Then there's the Rotary Autocannons; More Dakka at it's finest, pretty much. And unlike UltraACs, they have systems built-in to clear jams during the battle, without the pilot having to get out of his cockpit to mess around with it. Too bad they have fairly limited ammo reserves, and they only come in the lower autocannon calibers. Fluff-wise, the difference is that a rotary autocannon is a multi-barrel arrangement with a presumably complex feed mechanism that "only" jams every so often while ultra autocannons use Explosive Overclocking to achieve their maximum rate of fire, resulting in actual mechanical breakdowns once in a while. In game terms, the latter can actually end up looking more reliable since while one bad roll can make them sit out the rest of the fight with no chance of recovery, the former tend to jam more often and clearing each jam comes with its own opportunity cost (in the form of at least one turn not doing much else) and doesn't guarantee the weapon won't promptly jam again right away next turn. Even beyond that, in the game's fluff, there is the Quikscell company, maker of cheap weapons, ammo, and tanks, all traditionally considered the least reliable in the universe. (The rules don't actually reflect that by default, though.)
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_9518407	comment	CSI: Cyber: The first Victim of the Week in "Ghost in the Machine" is killed when he is startled into dropping a customised .22 concealed inside a drill case. The gun goes off when it hits the ground, discharging and killing him.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil: "Rabbit in a Snowstorm" opens with John Healy, a hitman working for Wilson Fisk, about to shoot a gang boss in a bowling alley. Just as he pulls the trigger, we flash back to 36 hours earlier, when he's buying the gun from Turk Barrett. Turk guarantees that the gun will not jam. We then return to the present and sure enough the gun jams, and Healy is forced to beat his target to death. A previous episode established that the gun was part of a larger batch of illegal guns Turk is smuggling into the city. It's worth noting that Turk removed it directly from the storage crate. It's implied the gun was probably some low quality knock-off that was not stored and maintained properly after it left the factory, so Healy only had himself to blame for not personally test firing it before the hit. Season two establishes that Turk specializes in selling extremely cheap and unreliable guns that are at their deadliest when used to bludgeon someone to death.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_9c153d0c	comment	Game Night has another head-shakingly daft example crossed with Guns Do Not Work That Way. Annie drops a revolver, which goes off and hits Max in the arm. Annie had dropped the gun because she was startled by the fact that she had just fired it, meaning the hammer was safely down on an empty cartridge. One wonders if there was a deleted scene with the characters making certain the gun had a full tank of gas, too.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_9e7f8a9c	comment	The Boys has the M20 assault rifle, an Expy of the M16 (it's stated in-story that the M16 was rushed into service pretty much just to get this thing out of the inventory). How bad was it? So bad that it helped create the story's parallel reality; the gun was so poorly-designed that it turned the Battle of Ia Drang from a slightly-American-leaning stalemate to a Curb-Stomp Battle that left every single American soldier dead (when they were found, all the Americans had been decapitated and the heads stuck on the worthless rifles). A later issue claimed that the magazine was the biggest problem, being made of an extremely light and fragile material (described as 'aluminum foil' by a bitter soldier) that resulted in the feed buckling altogether after only a few shots. It's stated that the only reason the rifle entered service was because Vought-American, its designers, thought that the gun would see little use in peacetime and they had bribed politicians into ignoring reports about how poorly it performed.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_9ff66c4b	comment	The Killer (1989): An inversion where Ah Jong angrily throws his cocked and loaded Beretta 92 into the back of the truck he was driving. By all means, Hollywood logic dictates it should've gone off.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_a0d6888d	comment	In the first book Storm Front, this applies during the final confrontation. Harry disrupts the villainous warlock's huge spell, sending an overload of magical energy all over the place. The warlock's accomplices open fire with an Uzi that quickly jams, and Harry notes they're probably lucky it didn't explode. When they resume fire, it's with a revolver.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_a8ae62a	comment	Franz Liebkind's Luger in the 2005 version of The Producers jams and fires when dropped, with great comedic timing. The classic Luger's toggle action actually is somewhat temperamental.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_ac9f81ac	comment	While the blaster rifles used by sand people in an early level of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy will sound off as though they are being fired multiple times when you're in range of an enemy using one, they will only actually launch a bolt maybe one in seven times. Justified in the old Expanded Universe, as the Sand People are rather primitive, tending to steal their rifles from settlers and having no concept on how to use a ranged weapon beyond "point in general direction of bad guy and pull trigger", which doesn't lend itself to good maintenance practices.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_acb92fd0	comment	Mentioned in an episode of Father Ted where John shows Ted that he has bought a shotgun to protect his shop and has it cocked and ready. Ted asks if that's not somewhat dangerous, to which John says that it would only be if you dropped it or something. He then slams the gun down on the table, causing Ted to jump and John to just laugh. The gun is confirmed to be loaded, as we hear it go off offscreen after Ted leaves the shop when Mary attempts to wrestle it from John's grasp.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b0793848	comment	In the cult flick The Boondock Saints, Rocco emphasizes a point by slamming his hands down on a table, causing the Beretta 92 pistol sitting on the table — which, mind you, is standard issue for U.S. soldiers (although the military version (M9) is not 100% the same) and costs about $700 — to fire, killing the poor pussycat that was laying next to it. The sequel averts this, however, when the brothers drop their Desert Eagles when surrounded by police and SWAT after the last shoot-out.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b1bdcb18	comment	The late-90s Alien vs. Predator PC game featured occasional and very subtle jamming of the Marine's pulse rifle. This was essentially just the same dry-fire sound as a magazine running dry; the weapon would resume working after the trigger was released. Only really a problem when firing on full auto... and if you were past the point of "short controlled bursts" you were probably doomed anyway.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b1cbc51	comment	In The Untouchables (1987), one gangster's Thompson jams during a fight. This was a problem real Tommy guns were frequently subject to, which is one of the reasons it was never as widely used as gangland movies would have you believe. To the gangster's credit he tries repeatedly to clear the jam, but he gets so distracted doing this that it gives the mousy accountant among the Untouchables time to get close enough to KO the gangster with the butt of his shotgun.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b212951e	comment	The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice makes Reliably Unreliable Everything, not just guns. Their whole business strategy is to cut as many corners and make everything as cheaply as possible. After all, it's not the best choice, it's Spacer's Choice! The very first NPC you meet in the game (aside from the guy who launched your escape pod... and the guy said escape pod landed on) is a guard who has been incapacitated because his shoddy Spacer's Choice pistol randomly misfired into his side. Thankfully, their guns never misfire on you, however they do degrade and break much faster than guns made by any other company. On the plus side, being made out of dirt cheap materials also means they're dirt cheap to repair.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b36b5dbb	comment	In Help!, the idiot "scientist" and his assistant have a recurring problem: none of their equipment works when it needs to, leading the assistant to invariably blame whatever country the object in question came from. As a result, this trope pops up twice: once with a "cheap" English pistol, leading them to bemoan their lack of a Luger, and once with their time-slowing ray, leading them to curse "American rig."
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b370c3aa	comment	In Taps, a dropped M16 sparks a firefight when it discharges accidentally.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b960b372	comment	Justified in Lupin III: Operation: Return the Treasure. Jigen shoots his opponent to deliberately cause a jam, then kills him before he has the chance to clear the jam.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_b9e40229	comment	One of the Feast movies has an example so outrageously absurd that it almost has to be a parody of this trope. A gun discharges on its own and blows off some guy's face, but the gun is a single action revolver — with the hammer down. For those not in the know, even pulling the trigger on one in that state does nothing; a single-action revolver is impossible to fire unless the hammer is cocked back first.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_ba666650	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ocelot stovepipes his own semiautomatic pistol when he tries a fancy move he'd heard of for the first timenote Basically, copying a move he'd heard about from Middle East fighters, which involves working the action of your gun after reloading, every time. This is to ensure that the gun always has a round loaded, no matter if the chamber was empty or not. However, because he hadn't practiced the maneuver, he works the action too fast, resulting in the aforementioned stovepipe. Ocelot then attempts to pistol whip Naked Snake with his gun instead of clearing it, despite the fact that Snake has just taken down half a dozen of his men with little more than his bare hands. Clearly it was his turn to hold the Idiot Ball. Snake easily counters, and when Ocelot drops his gun the cartridge pops out, clearing the jam. Snake then explains this to Ocelot (and the audience), attributing it to the latter's faults and inexperience. Since the game is a prequel it establishes why he's Revolver Ocelot in the present/near-future storyline.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Percy in Critical Role uses a homebrewed D&D 5th edition Gunslinger Fighter archetype (since he and the rest of Vox Machina were ported over from Pathfinder, which had an official Gunslinger class). All his guns have a misfire value, and rolling equal to or less than it causes the gun to jam, requiring an action and successful tinkering check to fix. Fail that and the gun is broken until it can be repaired out of combat. This is justified for several reasons. First, it prevents firearms from being a Game-Breaker in an otherwise medieval fantasy setting. Secondly, in this setting, Percy invented guns and the only ones that exist are his prototypes or made by a Loony Fan who stole his designs, so they're terribly designed by modern firearm standards. Animus, the revolver he took from the aforementioned loony fan Anna Ripley is even worse, dealing psychic damage to the user on a misfire.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_bc23c3e5	comment	In The Asphalt Jungle, Eddie is shot when the watchman drops his gun after being slugged by Dix. The gun hits the floor and discharges; shooting Eddie in the stomach.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_bc3e398b	comment	Subverted in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles When John is at a military school, his classmate's rifle has a stovepipe jam, and John, having been raised Crazy-Prepared by his mom, clears the jam in about ten seconds, all while teaching his fellow student the drill to do so.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Some weapons have the "Gets Hot" rule. This means that the weapon may break, usually with lethal results, if a one is rolled. Justified in that the technology is poorly understood and that most factions have reserves. Although the archetypical Gets Hot, the plasma gun, isn't actually breaking. It's building up too much heat from being repeatedly fired and venting the super-heated gas to keep the gun from exploding. If you're a Space Marine, whose armor is deliberately made especially heat-resistant, you have a good chance to survive; not so much if you're a Guardsman. The Ork Psycho-Dakka-Blasta will break when fired. This happens when the player rolls a certain number (basically, you roll a series of dice. The number of shots fired is equal to the total of dice. Rolling a 1 or 2 jams the weapon for the rest of the game). Again, justified, as the Orks are essentially firing a jury-rigged minigun which probably shouldn't even work at all on full auto. Somehow, presumably for the sake of convenience, most Ork guns on the tabletop don't exhibit this trope, which is almost miraculous when you consider that the average Ork gun is made from scrap metal, held together with baling twine, was built by someone a halfway sensible engineering school would definitely reject and more likely than not secretly bury in the woods at night, and may well have been loaded by pouring bullets into a magazine out of a bucket. On tabletop, overheating has a 1/6 chance and is resolved as an automatic wound that can be avoided by armor/invulnerable save, regardless of the weapon's specifics. In the RPG games, it's a 1/10 chance resolved as being shot in the arm with the gun, so it follows the gun's characteristics exactly. And any "best quality" version of a gun is immune to overheating. A common fate in Space Hulk is for a Terminator's weapon to jam/overheat/explode, usually when surrounded by the swarm of enemies that required it to shoot full-auto in the first place. In Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, however, firearms have misfire rules in every edition: In 1st editions misfires were a 50/50 chance of the gunpowder either needing to be re-ignited or re-filled (the former wasting a turn and the latter requiring a re-load) but no jamming, 2nd edition firearms straight-up jammed 5% of the time and needed a gunsmith to clean them up, 3rd edition guns exploded when misfiring, harming their user and breaking down until repaired, and in 4th edition firearms' chance of a Fumble is greatly increased.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_bdc321e2	comment	War of the Worlds (1988). Actor Richard Chaves (playing Lt. Col. Paul Ironhorse) had his assault rifle jam during an action scene. Being a Vietnam veteran, Chaves just cleared the jammed blank as he would a real round and kept firing.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_be462008	comment	Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins: The plot of the film is driven by a corrupt defense contractor trying to knowingly fob off substandard rifles on the US Army. A soldier is badly wounded firing one on the range early on.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_c0589b98	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops III allows the player to force this trope on enemies on-demand with the "Mass Weapon Lockout" Cyber Ability: when fully upgraded, it allows them to force up to four enemies' weapons to jam and leave them vulnerable. However, the enemies will try to and can unlock their weapons to keep shooting, with Warlords doing so in seconds. Flavor Text in the Data Vault also mentions that the 48 Dredge, an LMG that fires in 6 round bursts, has a tendency to jam when fitted with aftermarket trigger groups that allow fully-automatic fire (as some nations are said to do), and that the weapon itself is also limited to six-round bursts because the seventh bullet on would almost invariably go wildly off-target; this is not reflected in gameplay, however, as the first mission ends with the player getting to use a mounted one converted to full auto that works properly.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_c1dfc970	comment	Every non-revolver gun in Receiver 2 is prone to issues. Guns have a fairly high chance to stovepipe, double-feed, fail to feed and have out-of-battery malfunctions. Furthermore, if you don't carefully holster/unholster your gun or don't have it in a safe state when doing a quick holster/unholster, you will shoot yourself in the leg. The Colt SAA is especially bad because if the hammer is resting on a live round and you take a fall, the round is all but guaranteed to fire. Justified in-universe, as you're operating in the "post-mindkill environment" and the Threat is actively interfering with probability to make everything harder for you.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_c4076b9e	comment	Averted in Gunslinger Girl — During the first encounter between Hillshire and Franca, Franca tricks Hillshire into misfiring his pistol. It instead merely caused a jam. Hillshire simply fixes the jam and starts firing at Franca. There is also a scene where Henrietta is undergoing pistol training. Her gun misfires, and she looks down the barrel to see the problem. Raballo, the Fratello for another girl, promptly grabs the gun out of her hand and yells at her Fratello Giuseppe for not training her properly.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Highlanders" the companion Ben casually throws away a pistol when asked to get rid of it. The weapon discharges, alerting British redcoats to the location where the Doctor, his companions, and some Scottish rebels are. Taken to absurd lengths in "A Town Called Mercy", when Amy has multiple accidental discharges with a single-action revolver, which should require the hammer to be manually drawn back before each shot.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_c720f71e	comment	Possibly the worst incident of this trope ever recorded on YouTube has to be the incident involving Kentucky Ballistics, originally recorded on April 9, 2021. When the channel host Scott DeShields was testing the durability of a fire hydrant from multiple .50 BMG rounds (fired out of a Serbu Firearms RN-50 breech-loading single-shot rifle), the firearm could not handle the continuously-building pressure of an unstable and unusually-hot SLAP roundnoteSaboted Light Armor Penetrator to the point where it literally exploded in front of his face and body. As a result, not only did he get a broken arm and nose, but the shrapnel from the gun lacerated his jugular vein to the point he almost died from blood loss. Thankfully, his dad, who was recording the video, was able to take him to the hospital. The picture of him bloodied and hospitalized was not exactly pleasant to say the least. This is more of a case of "Reliably Unreliable Ammunition", as the firearm itself was up to regulations and built to withstand high pressures to chamber the powerful .50 BMG round and its variants (Serbu Firearms are no strangers to said round, as the RN-50 is the third .50 BMG-capable rifle in their stable). Some analysts have pointed to the particular SLAP round Scott used as the culprit, somehow producing more than twice the pressure of what the factory proof-loaded .50 BMG rounds can provide, due to poor aging or being tinkered with at some point. On top of that, there's no outward indication to use for gauging how safe it is to use one, so the best approach to prevent an accident like this is to check a round's history and simply never take, keep, and use ammo from old armories. He subsequently went back and fired the rest of the rounds from that batch - with a wall of concrete blocks between him and the gun, firing it by pulling on a string wrapped around the trigger â€” and most of them were bad, often requiring mechanical aid to unscrew the barrel cap and withdraw the bullet due to overcharging the bullets. However, the gun didn't outright fail until he loaded a deliberately measured overcharged bullet to, as Mythbusters would put it, duplicate the result. And, damage-wise, the recreation was almost a carbon copy of the accident. Scott's use of a thumb to stem the bleeding became a minor meme, and he soon came out with "Just Put A Thumb In it" t-shirts to capitalize on the meme. He's since spun off a similar series of videos, "When Guns Go Boom", loading everything from 9mm and .45 handguns to .30-06 and other .50 BMG rifles with deliberately-overcharged rounds to find their failure points.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_c7fd7de3	comment	In Love/Hate, guns have an alarming tendency to jam at inopportune moments. Most characters seem to have no knowledge of basic firearm maintenance. One character tries to shoot Darren only for his pistol to jam. Darren disarms him and keeps the weapon for himself, making use of it later. Nidge loses his Glock at one point, causing the magazine release to be hit and the chambered round misfires. Rather than abandoning the weapon, Nidge clears the jam, reloads and fires again. Then again, Nidge is the one character who is shown onscreen learning how to field strip a weapon.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_ca92edf1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops has a moment in the mission SOG where Woods sneaks up on an NVA soldier during the defense of Khe Sanh only for his M16 to jam on him. To give him some credit, he does try to clear the jam (by hitting the gun repeatedly) but it leads to the soldier noticing and he is only saved by Mason. In multiplayer, both the M14 and FAL will jam if fired too quickly, not out of any sort of reputation for doing so in reality (only FALs used by the Israelis were ever known to jam particularly often) but as a balancing measure to curb people using modded controllers turning the rifles into Game Breakers. Call of Duty: Black Ops II has a possible case in the first level, where Jonas Savimbi is handed a Hawk MM1 grenade launcher near the start, but players who pay close attention to him during the opening firefight will notice he can't get the thing to work (or someone forgot to load it) and he eventually gives up and starts using an FAL like the rest of his troops. Call of Duty: Black Ops III allows the player to force this trope on enemies on-demand with the "Mass Weapon Lockout" Cyber Ability: when fully upgraded, it allows them to force up to four enemies' weapons to jam and leave them vulnerable. However, the enemies will try to and can unlock their weapons to keep shooting, with Warlords doing so in seconds. Flavor Text in the Data Vault also mentions that the 48 Dredge, an LMG that fires in 6 round bursts, has a tendency to jam when fitted with aftermarket trigger groups that allow fully-automatic fire (as some nations are said to do), and that the weapon itself is also limited to six-round bursts because the seventh bullet on would almost invariably go wildly off-target; this is not reflected in gameplay, however, as the first mission ends with the player getting to use a mounted one converted to full auto that works properly.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_cbc8d766	comment	Averted in Death Wish (2018) when Paul Kersey's Glock stovepipes during a one-on-one shootout. He attempts to clear the jam while being shot at and able to continue firing. It shows Kersey's limited experience with guns also given that he suffered from a "slide bite" injury on his thumb from an earlier shootout.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_cbe3e313	comment	From True Lies comes this epic example: Helen attempts to use a MAC-10 machine pistol and promptly loses control of it and drops it down a flight of stairs, where it continues firing all by itself as it tumbles down, taking out nearly every mook in the terrorist camp. To put just how unreliable this is into perspective, the film's armorer used a plastic zip-tie to strap down the trigger for these scenes. This scene took several takes, as the time it would take to strap down the trigger and drop the weapon is almost as short as the time taken for the M-10 to empty its 30-round magazine: it fires more than 20 rounds per second.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_cd1550c5	comment	While most guns work just fine in The Dark Tower, fully automatic firearms are guaranteed to jam. This is justifiable in that everyone who uses them is either A) using a scavenged, poorly maintained weapon he is unfamiliar with, B) Axe-Crazy, or C) Too Dumb to Live. Well, except for the time Alain Johns makes use of one in Wizard and Glass.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_cd44d3d6	comment	In the first Crash Bandicoot game, this trope comes into play during the boss fight with Pinstripe Potooro. Pinstripeâ€™s method of attack is to shoot at Crash with a tommy gun. However, at points the gun will jam or he will have to reload, allowing Crash to hit him.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_cf69b21e	comment	The first episode of Beast Wars had Cheetor's gun jam. Subverted in that Cheetor cleared the jam, and made a sneak attack by shooting Megatron in his beast mode face.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d0799db8	comment	Near the end of Jurassic Park, Alan Grant uses an SPAS-12 shotgun against the raptors trying to break into the control room, but drops it and runs after firing only a few shots. The problem turns out to be a simple stovepipe jam, which he could have cleared simply by pulling the spent shell out of the ejection port - assuming he would have known enough about the weapon to do so. There's really nothing in the film to suggest he's ever handled or fired that type of weapon before, much less in a life-or-death situation.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d29e0237	comment	In The Great Balloon Race, the Greek rebel leader on Cyprus drops his shotgun when his bicycle crashes, and the gun goes off, shooting the Soaring Sylvia.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d461f757	comment	Averted in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica when Adama demands Starbuck's sidearm, chambers a round, presumably flicks off the safety and tosses the weapon on the table, where it bounces quite a bit but does not go off.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d5166b44	comment	The expanded universe also claims this trope to be the reason that the Assault Rifle's magazine capacity was lowered in Halo 3. Allegedly, the MA5B version from the first game was very prone to spring failure when fully loaded (a problem which can and has been very much Truth in Television for some real guns), and so they lowered the capacity down for subsequent iterations such as Halo 3's MA5C.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d5e733b0	comment	Akin to the D&D example, firearms in Pathfinder (which are fairly reliable for a fantasy setting) will damage themselves in some way on a critical failure, giving them the "broken" condition. It's still usable though, albeit slightly less effective and more dangerous to the one holding it — a second critical failure renders it useless and injures the gunman.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d6c86503	comment	A common gag in Slapstick comedy and Sitcoms: "Don't worry, it isn't loaded. [Bang! Bang!]" Seen in As Time Goes By, "Avoiding The Country Set".
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d7e0d316	comment	Etra chan saw it!: While shooting at a shooting range in Guam, Hiiragi arrogantly boasts about his knowledge in firearms that he grabs a gun that was accidently loaded with too much gunpowder. When he pulls the trigger, the gun explodes, and he has to be sent to a hospital. At first, everyone thought that he lost an arm since he was screaming in pain, but his arm turned out intact and the accident frightened and humiliated him.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the early "Kenny gets killed in every episode" era of South Park, Kenny is once killed by a discharge from a guy who is quitting hunting and drops his gun. Which happened to have run out of ammo not thirty seconds earlier, at that.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_db6a22a6	comment	A Biggles book had a pirate (naturally set a few centuries before Biggles' time) lean a pistol against a candle while sitting down at a table, and when a vibration shook the table, the pistol slipped off the candle, hit the table, and discharged a ball right into the pirate, killing him. Even modern replicas of flintlock weapons are quite prone to accidental discharge when dropped. Assuming that the gun falls with lock up, then even when powder pours out of the priming pan it can be still ignited by the sparks.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_dfabfce5	comment	In Red Dead Redemption 2, guns deteriorate over time, affecting their performance. You have to head to a gunsmith or clean it yourself with gun oil to restore your gun's stats. Any gun you pick up from an enemy will be labeled as "worn" and come with reduced stats.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e1ec0e62	comment	In Grand Theft Auto IV, guns occasionally discharge if they are dropped for any reason. Occasionally, they may even discharge when their wielders fling it around after being hit themselves. Sure, he could also be pulling the trigger in reflex, but even semi-automatic weapons discharge multiple times (and it is impossible that a reflex would enable the shooter to pull the trigger several times in a row). A scripted example happens when chasing down Playboy X. Having been firing clumsily over his shoulder, his pistol jams when he's cornered, and he throws it away to beg for his life. Since the normal rules take over at that point, it's possible for the discarded gun to discharge on hitting the ground.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In "Flooded" Buffy reprimands a security officer for using a gun on a demon, tosses it aside and winces at the subsequent discharge sound.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS has rules for malfunctions, with an attack roll that lands on or above a specific number indicating that the weapon malfunctioned (with unreliable guns having a lower target number and highly reliable guns having such a high one that only a critical failure will cause them to jam). The High-Tech sourcebook, having a thick Gun Porn section, also includes information on certain guns having a reputation for firing when dropped and mentions the dangers of old single-action revolvers as detailed in the Real Life section. Damage to the gun (deliberate or otherwise) can also have a variety of effects, from lowering the malfunction number (i.e. making it more likely to jam when fired) to decreasing the accuracy or damaging the weapon's frame or stock itself.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e5d5d23c	comment	The humorous Doom Game Mod "Extreme Weapon Pack" turns some weapons into these. The shotgun fails to fire literally 95% of the time, and once it does fire it takes several seconds of trying to work the rusted action to actually chamber the next shell. The super shotgun has one of its barrels broken off, and the remaining barrel has so much recoil that it spins you around every time when fired. The chaingun takes forever to spin up, pushes you backward at great speed, and is very inaccurate once it begins shooting. The BFG takes about a minute to charge up each time you try to fire. The exception is the pistol, and that's because the player character, apparently very wary of this problem, takes great pains to clean it after every single bullet.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "Down Among the Dead Men", two suspects are arguing over a shotgun when they slam it down on the floor and it goes off, blowing a hole in the ceiling. Particularly egregious as the gun in question is a Purdey, generally regarded as the finest shotguns ever made.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e694aadb	comment	The second half of The Emperor's Finest is basically a game of Space Hulk, right down to the well-known Terminator's weapon jamming and being slaughtered by genestealers as he tries to fix it. The Genestealers deliberately sacrifice a massive wave to force it to overheat.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e9cb2780	comment	In Gears of War, your gun can jam if you reload incorrectly. The consequence is that you have to take a moment to clear the jam before you can resume firing. It should be noted that this is only if you, the player, press the reload button while reloading at an incorrect time, and so, if someone never attempts the 'active reload' minigame to reload their gun, it will NEVER jam (active reloading is specifically mentioned as skipping the proper reloading method to load the gun faster, but chancing a misfeed). It's done to reload the gun faster (a life saver in mutliplayer) and get a damage boost.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_eaa4c8e0	comment	ABCs of Death 2: In "A is for Amateur", the assassin manages to complete his assignment when his corpse falls out of the air duct, and his gun goes off when it hits the floor; shooting the coke dealer in the forehead. In "F is for Falling", the Arab teen is killed when he drops his rifle from the tree and goes off, shooting him.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f16adb7	comment	In the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Indy escapes capture/execution by the Soviets by dropping an M1 carbine, causing it to shoot one of the soldiers in the foot. It's not completely implausible, as the M1 Carbine has a free-floating firing pin just like the Soviet SKS (which is a bit more known for this), but despite that M1 carbines are not remotely being known for going off when dropped. Possibly lampshaded by the fact that Indy looks as surprised as the Soviets when it happens, though he's quick to take advantage.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f367511c	comment	The Gun Dragon series in Yu-Gi-Oh! are based on guns and pretty much universally have gamble-related effects, some of which have only a one-in-four chance of going off. Their first and most infamous member, Barrel Dragon, was based on a revolver, making the gambling a Russian Roulette reference, but most of the others are based on different guns (semi-auto pistol, gatling gun, derringer), which invokes this trope.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f39c217d	comment	Averted in the first season finale of Aldnoah.Zero. Slaine fires off about 10 rounds from his pistol shooting up Saazbaum after he headshots Asseylum before a stovepipe occurs. However, he pulls the slide back and clears the malfunction, then uses the same gun to shoot Inaho in the face.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f655ed11	comment	In one episode of Frasier, Martin's gun from his police days (not seen in the episode, but identified as an M1911 in She's the Boss) is brought out from its storage "under the bed" still in a shoebox. The shoebox is knocked off a table and, naturally, the gun goes off, shooting up at an improbable angle to damage the apartment decor.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f7b25088	comment	In Isle of the Dead, the rifle will explode in your face and kill you as soon as you fire it unless you oil it first. There's no sign that anything's wrong with it in the first place, until you pull the trigger.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f8bb1ef2	comment	The villain of Double Take manages to dispatch himself this way; bragging about his shooting skills when about to kill the protagonists, he ends up falling down a long flight of stairs with his gun going off several times. He hits the floor with a Gory Discretion Shot (pun unintended for once) with the gun clearly pointing at his head before the switch. One character comments: "He was right, he didn't miss once!"
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f9657dcd	comment	A common fate in Space Hulk is for a Terminator's weapon to jam/overheat/explode, usually when surrounded by the swarm of enemies that required it to shoot full-auto in the first place.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_f9e57af5	comment	America's Army. Yep, in the official computer game your weapons can jam. Tap a key to clear the jam, with a tap to the bottom of the magazine followed by the forward assist.
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Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_fcf34eec	comment	Averted in Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid. In "Her Problem," Yu Lan's silenced pistol jams when she tries to shoot Kaname. She just clears the jam and quickly resumes firing.
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Game Night / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Get Shorty / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
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Help! / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Hot Fuzz / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
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Interceptor / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Johnny English / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
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Kelly's Heroes / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Licence to Kill / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Lockout / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Lord of War / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Max Manus / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Midway (2019) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Mosul (2020) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Schindler's List / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Snatch. / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Split Second (1992) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Asphalt Jungle / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Boondock Saints / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Hard Way / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Hurt Locker / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Last Dinosaur / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Loch Ness Horror / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Producers / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Return of the Pink Panther / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Revenant / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Sadness / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Untouchables (1987) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Warrior's Way / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Way of the Gun / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
30 Minutes or Less / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
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Tombstone / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Trading Places / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
TRON: Legacy / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
True Grit / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
True Lies / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Unforgiven / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
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Asian Saga / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Full Metal Panic! / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Keynes Cruisers / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Dark Tower / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Great Balloon Race / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Gunslinger Girl (Manga) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Maiden Rose (Manga) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Strike Witches (Manga) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Dragnet (Radio) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Diagnosis: Murder / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Fargo: Season One / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Father Ted / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Fortitude / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Hitmen (2020) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Magnum, P.I. / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Masters of the Air / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Midsomer Murders / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Slow Horses / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Sons of Guns / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Star Trek: Picard / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Goes Wrong Show / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Westworld / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Planet Mercenary (Tabletop Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular (Theatre) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Aliens: Fireteam Elite (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Battlefield (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Cruelty Squad (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
DayZ (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Deathloop (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Far Cry 2 (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Gloomwood (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
GoldenEye (1997) (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Homefront: The Revolution (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Into the Radius (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Lost in Vivo (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Marvel: Contest of Champions (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Metro Exodus (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
One Step From Eden (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Pathologic 2 (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Perfect Dark (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Police Quest 2: The Vengeance (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Remember Me (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
SYNTHETIK (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Space Hulk Tactics (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Space Station 13 (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Hanged Man (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
World of Warships (Video Game) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Super Danganronpa Another 2 (Visual Novel) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Bunnykill (Web Animation) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Aventures (Web Video) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Forgotten Weapons (Web Video) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Kentucky Ballistics (Web Video) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Concerned (Webcomic) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
qxlkbh (Webcomic) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
Stroker and Hoop / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Legend of Vox Machina / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Desert Peach (Comic Book) / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns

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