Has anyone in the history of the world ever successfully completed a reversal, gun snatch from someone?

[shockedcanadian]

You know the one, where some random guy with a pistol who has mush for brains decides to keep stepping forward to a guy, gun raised and pointed at his target and clearly giving away his distance advantage? In a flash the guy he is pointing the gun at does a move, bends his hand and snatches the pistol from him

I was watching a movie the other day and I was thinking "why is it in every action type movie in recent memory does one of the bad guys or standard NPC step right up to a guy with his gun and the potential victim does a 180 move and snatches the gun from the villain?". It is as predictable as it is unrealistic, not that I would know from personal experience but just common sense.

I know it is just a movie and I suppose it would be a Hail Mary move, but has anyone ever heard of someone in real life actually pulling off this magic trick?

These are the types of questions I ponder late at night.

 

[westwall]

Yes, there are experts who if you get too close to can disarm you.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Yes, there are experts who if you get too close to can disarm you.

Has it ever been pulled off in a real life and death situation though?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You know the one, where some random guy with a pistol who has mush for brains decides to keep stepping forward to a guy, gun raised and pointed at his target and clearly giving away his distance advantage? In a flash the guy he is pointing the gun at does a move, bends his hand and snatches the pistol from him

I was watching a movie the other day and I was thinking "why is it in every action type movie in recent memory does one of the bad guys or standard NPC step right up to a guy with his gun and the potential victim does a 180 move and snatches the gun from the villain?". It is as predictable as it is unrealistic, not that I would know from personal experience but just common sense.

I know it is just a movie and I suppose it would be a Hail Mary move, but has anyone ever heard of someone in real life actually pulling off this magic trick?

These are the types of questions I ponder late at night.

YouTube.

 

[westwall]

Has it ever been pulled off in a real life and death situation though?

Yes. Many times.

 

[Zebra]

i wonder ...

 

[g5000]

Yes. Many times.

Link?

 

[g5000]

YouTube.

YouTube has a lot of videos of "experts" showing how to make the move, but not a single video of someone in a real life situation doing it.

 

[Invisibleflash]

You know the one, where some random guy with a pistol who has mush for brains decides to keep stepping forward to a guy, gun raised and pointed at his target and clearly giving away his distance advantage? In a flash the guy he is pointing the gun at does a move, bends his hand and snatches the pistol from him

I was watching a movie the other day and I was thinking "why is it in every action type movie in recent memory does one of the bad guys or standard NPC step right up to a guy with his gun and the potential victim does a 180 move and snatches the gun from the villain?". It is as predictable as it is unrealistic, not that I would know from personal experience but just common sense.

I know it is just a movie and I suppose it would be a Hail Mary move, but has anyone ever heard of someone in real life actually pulling off this magic trick?

These are the types of questions I ponder late at night.

Yes, saw a video, maybe S. America / Mexico bar. Took the bozos gun, racked it and shot him a number of times with his own gun and killed him.

 

[Foxfyre]

Yes, there are experts who if you get too close to can disarm you.

I think the OP's point though was how many people holding a gun on somebody would be foolish enough to get close enough to that somebody to be disarmed?

Now somebody who really had no intent or stomach to kill might be approached by somebody and allow themselves to be disarmed.

But I see the OP's point. I think it is probably pretty rare for a dangerous gunman to allow anybody to get close enough to disarm him.

 

[westwall]

I think the OP's point though was how many people holding a gun on somebody would be foolish enough to get close enough to that somebody to be disarmed?

Now somebody who really had no intent or stomach to kill might be approached by somebody and allow themselves to be disarmed.

But I see the OP's point. I think it is probably pretty rare for a dangerous gunman to allow anybody to get close enough to disarm him.

The rare one is disarming someone with a knife.

THAT is extremely rare, and requires a true expert to accomplish.

 

[Foxfyre]

The rare one is disarming someone with a knife.

THAT is extremely rare, and requires a true expert to accomplish.

Interesting. Someone attacking with a knife DOES have to get close to his/her target/victim. Not so with a gun.

 

[westwall]

Interesting. Someone attacking with a knife DOES have to get close to his/her target/victim. Not so with a gun.

People who use knives for attack and defense generally know how to use them well. And they are incredibly difficult to disarm because they can attack you from so many different positions.

I trained a long time in knife fighting techniques, but always knew if I got in to a bad situation that my pistol was always going to be my preferred choice of weapon.