I feel like in the scene where Furiosa is showing Max the killswitch sequence, he moves to to turn the safety back on on his gun. Is this just me? I could have sworn I saw/heard it. bonehandledknife primarybufferpaneloneangryshot
So I watched that part maybe 6 times and I still can’t tell what he’s doing.
The problem is the Grip Safety is very near the Hammer, and they would mean two completely opposite things.
This would have to be a dvd commentary thing unless someone can Elliot Spencer that shit and tell us if that’s the very distinctive sound of a hammer being cocked or the very distinctive sound of a safety being put back on.
Unless a gun is a revolver, I think, having to click back the hammer manually when you haven’t just reloaded is a Hollywood myth. So if we’re trusting this movie to be realistic about weapons use, it would be the safety.
Well from what I understand you need to always set the first shot, and it should be down for the following shots.
So I went ahead and tried to find a good side-angle on the gun from before the kill-switch sequence:
If so, would mean that, yeah, he’s probably putting the safety back on, great catch!
The safety features are pretty specific to the type of gun. This one is a Glock 17 (if someone corrects me – they’ll be right – but I’ll be sad if I screwed up recognizing a freaking Glock!) and the safety mechanism are as follows: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock#Safety
It’s a semiautomatic (each pull of the trigger fires one shot and loads the next round) and has a firing pin rather than a hammer one cocks manually.
After watching more videos of people loading and unloading Glocks than I ever thought I would…
Not having access to the movie I can’t check to see what is being referred to, but the Glock’s “safety” is built into the trigger. Pulling it activates several internal mechanisms. That is, the gun is “safe” because it CANNOT accidentally fire by being dropped, bumped, etc – it can only fire by the trigger being pulled. It does not have a lever/button/dial like some handguns that renders the gun inoperable unless it’s turned off. You can order them with a “internal locking system” (I think this is because of certain police forces requiring such a thing) but it looks like this: http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/03/24/glock-internal-safety-lock/ And has an actual key that needs to be turned. Pretty sure that’s not what you guys are referring to Max doing.
The only way to “deescalate” (hee) a Glock is to take out the magazine, and then eject the chambered round. And obviously that’s not what happens in this scene.
Errr? Okay so what is he doing? Because there was a very intentional click added to the sound.
Guns aren’t my thing, but I came across more detail and wanted to update.
It turns out it’s not the (hammerless) Glock 17 that we’re talking about. Max is dual-wielding in this scene:
The pistol in his right hand is the Glock from the side of the war rig. But it’s the pistol in his left hand that he’s pointing at Furiosa during the “What do I call you?” exchange:
So everything make sense: the click is indeed meant to be taken as Max uncocking the pistol (or putting the safety on?), de-escalating in response to Furiosa giving him the kill-switch sequence. No magical nonexistent Glock hammer/safety is required.
Nice clarification! I remember like three months ago when folks were trying to figure out what was going on in this scene. I was totally prepared to accept this as a “storytelling point more important than totally weapons accuracy” thing. But of course it’s the other gun.
And, continuing with the Chekov’s Armory theme here…Max confiscates a whole mess of guns from various parts of the Rig. But I like that he’s holding the two guns that have dramatic significance so far at that point in the story: the Glock from the fight, and the gun that Furiosa pulls out during the Buzzard chase and eventually hits Ace in the face with.
(Feels break for the realization that at some point, she took a moment to wipe Ace’s blood off it.)
