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Penn & Teller's Magic Bullet

P&T bought their bullet catch from Banachek and then modified it to make it into P&T's bullet catch.
 
DiskoVilante said:
P&T bought their bullet catch from Banachek and then modified it to make it into P&T's bullet catch.
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Actually, according to Banachek, he gave Penn & Teller the bullet catch, and after they made a success of it, they paid him a generous amount to show their gratitude.
 
I'm pretty sure there's just a second bullet or a tradeoff. My understanding is the trick is only "dangerous" because of accidentally using a real fire arm during the process.
 
I can understand the liability issue, but am I the only one who finds just a smidgen of condesention in telling people to be careful with loaded firearms. To me it's almost as if there's a suggestion they might not realize the trick NOT done by firing a .357 magnum slug at someone's face.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
I can understand the liability issue, but am I the only one who finds just a smidgen of condesention in telling people to be careful with loaded firearms. To me it's almost as if there's a suggestion they might not realize the trick NOT done by firing a .357 magnum slug at someone's face.
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The admins stated they didn't want any further discussion by me regarding my possible testing of methods I may think are employed for this stunt; I clarified my position on the handling of firearms.

It's not condescention. There are plenty of people who forget how dangerous a firearm can be:
However, on October 12th, 1984 after a long and draining day's shooting on the set of Cover Up (1984) (TV), [Jon-Erik] Hexum became bored with the extensive delays and jokingly put a prop .44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull, whereupon the mortally injured Hexum was rushed via ambulance to hospital to undergo extensive surgery. Despite five hours of work, the chief surgeon Dr David Ditsworth, described the damage to Hexum's brain as life ending, and one week later on October 18th, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead. However, Hexum's commitment to organ donation, meant five other lives were assisted or saved with organs harvested from him. The youthful & charming Hexum was dead at only 26 years of age.
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HeyLeroy said:
There are plenty of people who forget how dangerous a firearm can be:
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There are plenty who just plain don't know. Went out plinking with a city boy, once. Our group would be walking single-file through the woods and, every time I'd look back, the idiot was strolling along with his (on loan) rifle at trail arms, the muzzle pointed at someone's head (usually mine). We kept repeating the mantra to him, "There's no such thing as an unloaded gun," and he kept opening the breach and saying, "Yes there is, see? And all of yours are empty, too!" We finally took turns carrying his rifle, only handing it to him when we stopped to fire a few rounds.
 
HeyLeroy said:
The admins stated they didn't want any further discussion by me regarding my possible testing of methods I may think are employed for this stunt; I clarified my position on the handling of firearms.

It's not condescention. There are plenty of people who forget how dangerous a firearm can be:
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Yes, sorry about that. I was going to post my comments two days ago but didn't get around to it until I posted above.

I do disagree with you about some of the replies not being condescending. I don't think anyone on this forum has any misconceptions about the dangers of firearms and while the replies had a certain context about general handling, I still couldn't help but get the sense they might have thought people still considered the "trick" to actually be a bullet fired at the face of an individual. That was just my sense though and I'll drop it as of this period ending this sentence.
 
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