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 ...