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* In the ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'' movie ''[[Live and Let Die (Film)|Live and Let Die]]'' rookie agent Rosie Carver finds a hidden arsenal in Quarrel Junior's boat and confronts him with a revolver, only to be told she's left the safety catch on. This is a little odd, since while revolvers ''can'' have safeties, most don't have a catch to operate them.
** Type 2 in ''[[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]'', when a hitman tries to shoot Bond with an empty gun. "That's a Smith and Wesson. And you've had your six."
* ''[[The Rock (Film)|The Rock]]'': Just after Goodspeed and Mason's Navy SEAL teammates are all drawn into a trap and killed, Goodspeed tries to stop Mason from leaving by pulling his pistol on him. Mason replies that [[Defensive Failure|Goodspeed doesn't have what it takes to kill him]], adding [[Not With the Safety On, You Won't|"Besides, the safety's on"]] before grabbing the gun away.
* ''[[Shoot Em Up (Film)|Shoot Em Up]]'' features this trope when, at the beginning of the movie, the hero, Mr. Smith holds the villain, Mr. Hertz at gunpoint with his own gun. Hertz appears quite jolly, even reciting a limerick, until Smith tries to shoot him, only to find that the gun has a fingerprint sensor to prevent anyone but the owner from discharging it. Later, {{spoiler|it is inverted, when Smith corners Hertz in a brothel, who chuckles again as Smith pulls out a gun, the freezes in horror as Smith pulls out the previous owner's hand, and places the thumb on the sensor to authorize the gun. Hertz is saved by his bulletproof vest.}}
* This happens to One-Round, the [[Dumb Muscle]] member of the gang in the 1955 version of ''The Ladykillers.''
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** Seen again in ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''. At the very end of the movie, Polly Perkins points her camera(which has only one shot left) at Sky Captain and shoots. He just looks at her and says, "Lens cap."
* Delivered straight in ''[[Strange Days]]'', when Mace tricks a thug pointing a gun at her by muttering "Safety's on." He blinks. She punches.
** Actually... she adds insult to injury by disarming him and then [[Pistol
* Perhaps the ultimate example is the [[Cool Gun|Lawgiver 2]] in [[Judge Dredd]], which electrocutes any non-Judge who tries to fire it. It's also a subversion, as the one person who attempts to lampshade this gets shot - turns out the man he's addressing ''is'' a Judge.
* [[Black Sheep]] has an example where a woman who was very anti-gun points a rifle at the other two protagonists, threatening to shoot. One of them points out that the safety is on, then when she can't fix it, he takes the gun, sets the safety to on, then gives back the gun. Although he then pulls back and keeps it.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Appears back in 1966 in the ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV)|The Wild Wild West]]'' episode "Night of the Deadly Bubble", where the female professor thinks West is an intruder, but West knows she won't shoot him because the safety's on.
* Not really a gun, but in ''[[
** And played straight on the Doctor's end as he went up against the [[Big Bad]] in the finale issue of IDW's ''The Forgotten'' miniseries.
* In the ''[[Due South]]'' episode "Free Willie":
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''Hardison looks down to check, and Nathan grabs the gun.'' }}
** Similarly, in "The Girls' Night Out Job", Sophie tells a thug pointing a gun at her that the safety is on. While he's checking the gun, Tara comes up behind him and breaks a vase over his head, commenting that the safety was off. [[Badass Boast|"Not to a grifter."]]
* In the first season ''[[The Man From UNCLE]]'' episode "The King of Knaves Affair" Napoleon Solo (under cover) takes advantage of a [[Not With the Safety On, You Won't|failure to check the safety]] to disarm a woman accosting him in his hotel room.
{{quote| '''Ernestine Pepper''': Mr. Smith, the first shot goes into the floor, the second goes into your head.<br />
'''Napoleon Solo''' [''slowly walking towards Pepper'']: Alright then, better shoot and get it over with. [''Pepper fumbles with the pistol, which does not fire. Solo disarms her''] You see, the safety catch is on; it limits the range of the weapon considerably. }}
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** Although laser weapons would need safeties for the same reason conventional firearms have them.
** The same applies to Stan in an episode of ''[[Lexx]]''.
* In an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Castle]]'': The murderer is cornered by Beckett while holding Castle hostage at gunpoint. After uncovering the murderer's motive, Castle knocks him down and wrests the gun from him. Beckett tells him he could have been killed, and Castle replies that the safety was on the whole time.
{{quote| '''Beckett''': Y'know, you could've told me.<br />
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{{quote| '''Hanson''': The safety's on the left, man. You ought to take it off if you want to threaten somebody.<br />
'''Ronnie''': The safety don't work, man. Never did. }}
* Happens in an episode of ''[[Quantum Leap]]''. Sam is being held hostage by a woman he's been charged to protect (although, the person he's leaped into is really in cahoots with the bad guy, and the woman has just found out). Subverted in that it is Al who tells Sam that the safety is on. Since he is a hologram and the woman can't see him, he can examine the gun closely and at length. Also, the woman checks by actually trying to fire the gun, which doesn't work, and then [[Throw
* A variation happened in one episode of ''[[Adam-12]]''. Malloy chases a guy armed with a shotgun over a hill, only to find the shotgun leveled at him. Then the guy gives up. Turned out he left the safety on and pulled the trigger so hard it ''broke''.
* The reason Stella wasn't shot by Frankie in ''[[CSI: NY]]'' 'All Access'. Frankie didn't know enough about guns to take the safety off.
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