RE: Movie "silencers"
I watched "Broken Arrow" today, this park ranger picked up a clock off a guy she knocked out, later she was getting shot at by a guy with what looked like a Bushmaster Varminter or Colt match target with a scope from a helicopter at about 40yrds, he missed 5-6shots, she spun and nailed him in one shot with the glock!!![X(][X(] RIIIIIIGHT!
I always have wondered also how the hero-who sometimes isn't someone who would have ever shot a gun in his life can out shoot militants or terrorist who were trained to shoot-killing all of his/her foes in one shot, while he'll get missed narrowly by hundreds of rounds, MAYBE grazed in the shoulder, which won't effect him anyway.
I also noted last night in "BA" that when Howie Long drops a grenade, he must have super long fuses in them, because instead of 5seconds, he gets more than 12seconds (time it takes a grenade to fall 2000ft if it doesn't bounce and discounting terminal velocity)...while when Christian slater catches a dropped by a guy he shot before it hits the ground, he can throw it 30ft and have it detonate before it hits anything.