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A modern variant that avoids the obviously-lacking-bullets problem is that a character will reveal that they've removed the firing pin from the weapon.
Compare [[Not With the Safety On, You Won't]].
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* Employed in ''[[Bloodfist]] VI'' when the hero hands his gun to [[The Mole]] and then turns his back to her.
* In ''[[The Net]]'', after Jack takes his gun from Angela, yet doesn't realize that it's empty (she removed the clip) until he tries to shoot it, again, begging the question of why he didn't notice the weight difference.
* ''[[Deja Vu]]'': played with at the climax: agent Carlin takes the magazine out of his gun and when it slide-locks, {{spoiler|he sticks a single bullet into the chamber, making his gun look empty to the terrorist and allowing him to get close enough for a single [[Boom! Headshot!]].}}
* Twisted gloriously in ''[[Ballistic Ecks vs. Sever]]'', After Gant's kid is stolen by Sever, the agent who was watching over him was handed a gun and told to blow his brains out. He decides it'd be better used to shoot Gant. It doesn't work because {{spoiler|the gun's been modified to shoot backwards, so if he'd actually tried to suicide he would have been ok. Instead he got shot in the face.}} One of the (very) few good moments in the movie.
* Used by [[Guile Hero|guile]] [[Anti-Hero|type III antihero]] Carlito Brigante in [[Carlitos Way]]. His former attorney Davey {{spoiler|has murdered a mafia boss and tried selling Carlito out to the district attorney}}, with Carlito also implicated in the crime. Davey is stabbed by a {{spoiler|mafia hitman}} and hospitalized. Carlito visits Davey in the hospital, where Davey clumsily pulls a revolver from under his pillow, fully expecting that the {{spoiler|mafia}} intends to finish the job. He lowers the weapon when he sees it's Carlito. Carlito delivers a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] and briefly takes the weapon away, then tells Davey the weapon should be on his tray, not under his pillow. Carlito leaves. Shortly afterwards, the {{spoiler|mafia bosses' son}} enters to shoot Davey dead. Davey lifts his revolver, pulls the trigger first, then with an [[Oh Crap|expression of horror]] realizes that Carlito removed all the bullets. Carlito [[Batman Gambit|knew]] Davey was an academic with no street sense, and the {{spoiler|mafia}} would send someone to finish the job.
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** Because Andy won't let him.
* ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' episode "Stop The Presses" - bad guy Ethan has kidnapped his brother Eric to make him help kill Superman. At one point Eric fights back and grabs the weapon they stole from the Pentagon and points it in Ethan's face. Ethan keeps telling Eric he's not man enough to do it. Eric pulls the trigger and, as in the description, nothing happens. Ethan gloats, "I disarmed it" and shows Eric the part he removed.
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* Happened at least once in ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', on an asteroid with a bone-eating girl and a mushroom-covered biologist.
** Also on the episode where John returns to Moya to find pirates have taken over and Scorpius has escaped. So, John sets up an ambush with Scorpius and gives him a huge rifle to do so. Not surprisingly, Scorpius discovers the rifle isn't loaded. His reaction is priceless: [[Sarcasm Mode|"Thank you, John."]]
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