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* Why in the hell would the Alphabet Bandit robberies require a rare gun such as the .44 Auto Mag? It's pretty clear that if they'd used a gun with more commonplace ammunition and not a combination of actual .44 AMP rounds and chopped down .308s to fit the Auto Mag, then Axel would never have got onto them in the gun club and they may possibly have got away with the whole scam.

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* Why in the hell would the Alphabet Bandit robberies require a rare gun such as the .the [[HandCannon .44 Auto Mag? Mag]]? It's pretty clear that if they'd used a gun with more commonplace ammunition and not a combination of actual .44 AMP rounds and chopped down .308s to fit the Auto Mag, then Axel would never have got onto them in the gun club and they may possibly have got away with the whole scam.
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** That question can be most reasonably explained with the CoolGuns trope. One or more of the goons thought the .44 Auto Mag was a kickass gun, and just ''had'' to take it. If they'd used revolvers instead, the entire movie would have been a wash... So, lucky us for dumb mooks.

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** That question can be most reasonably explained with the CoolGuns trope. One or more of the goons thought the .44 Auto Mag was a kickass gun, and just ''had'' to take it. If they'd used revolvers instead, the entire movie would have been a wash... So, lucky us for dumb mooks.


* Why in the hell would the Alphabet Bandit robberies require a [[RareGuns rare gun]] such as the .44 Auto Mag? It's pretty clear that if they'd used a gun with more commonplace ammunition and not a combination of actual .44 AMP rounds and chopped down .308s to fit the Auto Mag, then Axel would never have got onto them in the gun club and they may possibly have got away with the whole scam.

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* Why in the hell would the Alphabet Bandit robberies require a [[RareGuns rare gun]] gun such as the .44 Auto Mag? It's pretty clear that if they'd used a gun with more commonplace ammunition and not a combination of actual .44 AMP rounds and chopped down .308s to fit the Auto Mag, then Axel would never have got onto them in the gun club and they may possibly have got away with the whole scam.
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* Why did Lutz's assistant get fired, too? What did ''he'' do? He seemed to get abused just as much as everyone else.

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* Why did Lutz's assistant get fired, too? What did ''he'' do? He seemed to get abused just as much as everyone else.else.
** He's shown to be fairly incompetent. He probably only got the job because of Lutz.
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*** This is confirmed in-movie as Dent calls the mook in question on the carpet for making such a foolish decision, and later has him killed for it.

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*** This is confirmed in-movie as Dent calls the mook in question on the carpet for making such a foolish decision, and later has him killed for it.it.
* Why did Lutz's assistant get fired, too? What did ''he'' do? He seemed to get abused just as much as everyone else.
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* Why in the hell would the Alphabet Bandit robberies require a [[RareGuns rare gun]] such as the .44 Auto Mag? It's pretty clear that if they'd used a gun with more commonplace ammunition and not a combination of actual .44 AMP rounds and chopped down .308s to fit the Auto Mag, then Axel would never have got onto them in the gun club and they may possibly have got away with the whole scam.
** That question can be most reasonably explained with the CoolGuns trope. One or more of the goons thought the .44 Auto Mag was a kickass gun, and just ''had'' to take it. If they'd used revolvers instead, the entire movie would have been a wash... So, lucky us for dumb mooks.
*** This is confirmed in-movie as Dent calls the mook in question on the carpet for making such a foolish decision, and later has him killed for it.

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