Originally posted by h1a8You know I love to try to smooth out what people call PIS or writer/artist mistake. Haven't had a chance to in a while. But I'll try for this No-Prize. Because at first glance, he's kinda right. It doesn't seem to make sense for his revolver to be shooting shots in such quick succession. However, there are such things as automatic revolvers. They do not fire bursts like certain semi-automatic hanguns do, but they don't require any recocking of the hammer. So as fast as you can squeeze the trigger is as fast as they will shoot.
Then explain to me how he was able to squeeze off more than two more rounds while the first bullet was in the air. The bullets had to miss.
Also, little known fact about triggers. Once you pull a trigger, you do not have to release the trigger back into its default position in order to pull it again for another shot. You can release it a veritable fraction of the distance and pull it back again with your finger. So the first shot involves a longer heavier trigger pull and all subsequent ones are shorter, lighter pulls. This allows for a much more rapid ability to discharge multiple shots. If any of you have handled or know about real handguns, you know what I'm talking about. To those that don't, real handguns are nothing like the plastic ones you handle in the arcades. The reason for this design is that you obviously want a gun that can shoot multiple bullets in quick succession, but you don't want the slightest pulling to cause an accidental discharge. So this trigger design is a compromise. It takes quite a bit of finger strength and distance to pull the trigger back the first time, but once you do, you can depress it only slightly and pull it again and again for rapid fire.
Therefore, you combine the automatic revolver with this basic design of a trigger and combine that with Red Skull's Super-Soldier enhanced reflexes and you could probably achieve what happened in that scan. Remember, at that time, Red Skull's body was a clone of Steve Rogers' own body. At least, his fingers slightly pulling a trigger that quickly makes more sense than Cap dodging bullets after they're fired from point-blank range as in the 'Winter Soldier' arc. Does that make sense? May I have my No-Prize now?