In too many TV shows and movies, someone fires a revolver and then puts it into the front waistband of their pants, barrel pointing downward to a sensitive area.
Isn’t the barrel very hot, enough to burn your hand if you grasped it?
In real life, wouldn’t these shooters be burning themselves very badly?
Related question: Why do so many of these Hollywood shooters use their waistband, especially their back waistband, to hold a gun, instead of using a holster?
Wearing a gun in your waistband, particularly your back waistband, is dangerous, uncomfortable, hard to access, and looks very stupid for some character that is supposed to be famililar with guns.
Why does Hollywood do this? After all, since they are beholden to the NRA in never showing the serious long-term effects of the gun violence, in speading the myth that you can shoot hundreds of bullets without hitting anyone, and that personal gun use never results in you shooting your someone you know in anger, like 75% of all gun murders, shouldn’t they be equally beholden to the stated NRA goal of gun safety and use a holster?
In the case of outlaws in the Wild West they might have acquired the revolver without a holster as they ripped it off a bandit but with a posse bearing down on them there was no time to unhitch the holster and the leather strap that ties it to the hip.
I don’t know if I have seen that in movies as often as you have and I don’t think the NRA has anything to do with it. Barrels get hot from shooting lots of rounds. One or two won’t usually make it hot enough to burn. Still, you are correct that tucking it into your waistband is irresponsible to show. The NRA is certainly opposed to that type of thing in real-life and in the media. Maybe the directors of the show were just trying to give an indication of how dumb and reckless the character is.
Well, see, you were fine right up until the political rant. Now you’re going to get a visit from a person who may seem unpleasant to you.
A gun barrel doesn’t get all that hot after a round or two (possible exception of larger bore). Sticking a gun in one’s waistband is not a very secure way to carry. Even a small weapon has the alarming tendency to slide down and make an appearance at your shoes.
The barrel may not be hot, but damn the casings can be. The first time I shot a revolver with my dad, I went to reload it after firing all six shots. Ejected the casings into my palm to put in a collection bucket. I received three or four really nice blisters from that mistake.
There’s a reason you don’t wear a loose-collared shirt to the range. Nothing like hot brass dropping down your back to make you wish you hadn’t tucked your shirt in.
If anything, the shots-to-hits ratio is too high, for pistols at least. I’m not sure if even an Olympic-class athlete could hit as well as every good guy seems to on the screen.
