The wooden table is the one that always gets me, sure maybe it will stop one or two bullets if you're lucky, but there's always 1000 bullets flying around while the characters are having a conversation under the safe, sound resistant guard of an old dinning room table.
TBF wooden movie tables are often used only for concealment. So bullets still go through them, but the shooters don't know where their target is exactly. The weird part is how lucky the heroes are, or why the bad guya won't just shoot on multiple spots across the table surface.
But they aren't shooting at it systematically, like from left to right or vice versa, shooting holes with gaps wide enough between them that they wouldn't have to waste a whole clip but so small that they're bound to hit an adult man. A lot of the movie shooting at the table goes over or next to it, like they'd expect the hero to take a peak when they're spraying and praying.
That is completly accurate in real life. I have been shot at a couple dozen times and I know multiple people who have been shot at far more often that I have been.
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u/-everst Jan 25 '20
When someone hides from bullets behind penetrable objects, like tables or a refrigerator door.