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Beretta 92 that shoots when empty
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:12 pm
by Crash
Please tell me that I'm wrong about this. I was watching a German movie last night and a woman shoots a guy with a Beretta 92 until she runs out of ammo. She keeps pulling the trigger and the gun goes, "click, click, click." Doesn't the Beretta, like most full-size autos, lock the slide back when all shots have been fired? If so, then there would have been no "click, click, click" when she tried to pull the trigger. Later in the movie, without the gun being reloaded, a guy shoots and kills the woman. Oh well, it was a movie....
Crash
Re: Beretta 92 that shoots when empty
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:20 pm
by Liberty
Maybe a hard primer? The 92 does go to slide lock though.
Re: Beretta 92 that shoots when empty
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:31 pm
by earlwb
yeah the slide would normally lock back when the gun is empty. But I have seen cases where a gun might not have the slide lock back though. Magazine or slide lock actuator has a problem. So it is plausible. Also if the cartridge has a defective primer it might not fire off. I do like double action guns that let you pull the trigger again though. Granted if the primer is bad it may not go off. But it is nice on those primers that need a little extra to get them to fire off.
Re: Beretta 92 that shoots when empty
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:46 pm
by JerryK
Re: Beretta 92 that shoots when empty
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 8:54 pm
by C-dub
I think the same thing happened in Die Hard when McLain gives Hans an empty gun. Hans pulls the trigger three or four times when it was "empty."
Re: Beretta 92 that shoots when empty
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 6:00 am
by Jusme
Hollywood must get their guns from different suppliers than regular people, along with those bullets that spark on metal surfaces, and cause gas tanks to explode.

Re: Beretta 92 that shoots when empty
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:34 pm
by QB
Could have been a DAO model.........but it's more likely that it was just another "Hollywood" misrepresentation......I just love catching all the gun mistakes in movies/TV.