What does “Cocking the gun” actually do in movie scenes. Why wouldn’t you just pull the trigger?
In: Engineering
When a round gets fired, most of the energy is used to push the bullet out of the barrel. Some guns will use some of that energy to do a bunch of mechanical wizardry that gets rid of the bullet peel and gets a new round ready to be fired.
You can also get a round ready for firing by manually moving whatever part on the gun you need to to get that mechanical wizardry done the old fashioned way.
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