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Back in the days of the wild west movies, cowboys would cock their gun to convey a serious threat. Let's extend that to a handgun that can be cocked multiple times.
After the first cock (which loads a bullet and/or pulls back the hammer for easier firing), the subsequent cocks would be mechanically
pointless, but would serve to emphasize a warning.
Each cocking sound would be progressively louder and more menacing.
*click*
"Do you feel lucky, punk?"
*CLICK*
"I said, do you feel lucky?"
*CH-CLACK*
"Well?"
**SHICH-KER-WHACK**
"Hear that? That was your final warning."
The whole point is to get someone to back down by bluff alone, without ever firing a shot.
Leonardo beat you to it.
http://www.wga.hu/a...engine/1milita4.jpg
Not quite the same, but what the hell... Sort of what Loris is looking for. [ldischler, Sep 05 2006]
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Wouldn't you just sound like a nervous person with an empty magazine? |
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tosses croissant in the air for Aq_Bi to
shoot at..... SPLAT !! lands on head before
the weapon is cocked. (+) |
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I'm imagining a Mexican standoff with each of the Mexicans sending out for ear protectors after the 15th ***GRRRR-IICKKK-KER-BOOOMF*** <ground-rumbles, dust snows from ceiling, glasses rattle off side off saloon bar> |
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[21 Quest], you have been found guilty of using a word not meant for halfbakers ears. You have been sentenced to 20 days in the stockade. Bailiff, take the prisoner away. |
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That is good. But it would be better if the subsequent cocks were not useless. Perhaps they could be potentially available to fire following bullets. |
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Then it would be interesting to see people backing off by progressively uncocking their guns. |
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Foley artists have gotten completely out of control on this issue. |
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Watch someone holding a revolver swing it around to bear on a target in a movie, and you'll hear all manner of mechanisms clicking, sliding, ratcheting, reminiscent of pump action shotguns, hammers on semiautomatic pistols being cocked, and revolver cylinders spinning. |
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Don't even bring up the issue of canned laughter, please. |
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I'm pretty sure this is baked on law
enforcement shotguns. I know ive seen
it on one of those "look at our shiny
new weapons" shows on discovery or
something like that. |
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This would solve a problem that I have see in television and movies where Our Hero cocks his shotgun or pulls the slider of his automatic so often that by the time he actually takes a shot his magazine should be empty and the ground around him littered with unfired rounds. |
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