Movie question -- about bullet tracing

[bobm]

Watched a movie last night...Memory with Liam Neeson. Pretty good flick. During the film he uses a PPK .32 with suppressor for his trade. Flatfoot detectives put together same bullet used for multiple terminations by suppressor marks on the bullet.

Marking possible or Hollywood BS ?

 

[Ajwilly96]

Not sure about “suppressor marks” as your bullet shouldn’t touch your suppressor because that’s known as a baffle strike. But there is a thing called NIBIN that is 98.9% accurate and can match fired bullets/casings from a gun. However, they would have had to have the gun in for testing to match the casings/bullets.

General practice is recovered bullets and casings from crimes are submitted for NIBIN as long as they are suitable. However it’s probably just Hollywood BS for the movie.

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Liam Neeson probably wrote that scene.

 

[YEW PLUCKER]

Watched a movie last night...Memory with Liam Neeson. Pretty good flick. During the film he uses a PPK .32 with suppressor for his trade. Flatfoot detectives put together same bullet used for multiple terminations by suppressor marks on the bullet.

Marking possible or Hollywood BS ?

Complete BS.

 

[rr2030]

Sounds like one for Myth Busters

 

[Nick Caprinolo]

If a suppressor is properly fitted and manufactured, it should leave no marks on a fired bullet. I have no science to prove that but have witnessed folks using them at the range, and some have fired very good groups. Any bullet striking a suppressor would be somewhat deformed and would therefore not be as accurate. To me this is just common sense. I have a suppressor on a AR15 and see no difference in accuracy.

 

[AccelR8]

Maybe the suppressor used wipes.

Although it sounds like Hollywood BS

 

[whatsupdoc]

Maybe the suppressor used wipes.

Bingo, although the wipes do wear so not likely they would mark every bullet the same
but hey is the movies Aliens Dinosaurs Zombies oh my.

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Hollyweird has no idee how a suppressor works. Just listen when they shoot a rifle/pistol with one in a movie. My cat farts louder then a shot out of a suppressed FA

 

[SEM]

cat farts are more deadly than hollyweird stunts.... completely clears the room

Not taking into account Baldwin's blunder

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Imagine being on a action movie set with Baldwin and that loser Neesam and they have to shoot their way out of something in a scene

 

[Doug Casner]

I wouldnt watch a liam neesam movie if ya paid me. Doug

 

[Pawnee Bill]

Pure Hollywood.

 

[shoobe01]

I also vote for wipes. Just like how diamonds are still sometimes a valid thing to steal and fence (nope, trade too closely controlled, not plausible even by the 70s) lots of movies either take their inspiration from or are direct movie versions of old books. Sometimes they do period pieces, but too often they skip that for budget but never really update the script. So, no one /really/ has a mobile phone in 2023 for example.

The book the movie (already a remake of a euro movie which may be better) is based on was first published in 1985, toss in a decade for out of date tech as is the way and 1970 suppressors: sure, wipes.

B&T still makes a (very very quiet) dedicated suppressed pistol with wipes, FWIW:

Anyway, old school wipes were quite consumable and /I believe/ this line more or less makes sense not from wipe wear but residue. Suppressors were never super common so it would be a lot more like a clue than the fingerprint that bullet comparitors are supposed to give us. .32, suppressed: probably our guy.

 

[M-61]

My thought is if the bullet touches the silencer you have bigger problems possibly than noise suppression.

 

[Walt Krafft]

What is this movie thing of which you are speaking? Sounds like fantisies for people with nothing better to do, done by people incapable of actually being usefull.

 

[Dgd6mm]

The Wick movies to me are also a bunch of crap. On the other hand, in real life Keanu Reeves can run a gun.

 

[bobm]

I also vote for wipes. Just like how diamonds are still sometimes a valid thing to steal and fence (nope, trade too closely controlled, not plausible even by the 70s) lots of movies either take their inspiration from or are direct movie versions of old books. Sometimes they do period pieces, but too often they skip that for budget but never really update the script. So, no one /really/ has a mobile phone in 2023 for example.

The book the movie (already a remake of a euro movie which may be better) is based on was first published in 1985, toss in a decade for out of date tech as is the way and 1970 suppressors: sure, wipes.

B&T still makes a (very very quiet) dedicated suppressed pistol with wipes, FWIW:

Anyway, old school wipes were quite consumable and /I believe/ this line more or less makes sense not from wipe wear but residue. Suppressors were never super common so it would be a lot more like a clue than the fingerprint that bullet comparitors are supposed to give us. .32, suppressed: probably our guy.

Nice informative post. Thanks for taking the time.

 

[Mikey_P]

The Wick movies to me are also a bunch of crap. On the other hand, in real life Keanu Reeves can run a gun.

and he can ride a motorcycle pretty well, too...

 

[NorCalMikie]

and he can ride a motorcycle pretty well, too...

All the way to the BANK!!
And from what's been written about him? Pretty good Guy.