History Main / BallisticDiscount

This term is sort of the ultimate extension of the FiveFingerDiscount. Averting this trope is the cause for ShopliftAndDie.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Command + P", a young inventor demonstrates his new process for 3D printing a gun to someone he thinks is an investor. He hands the gun to the investor, along with a bullet so that he can see the gun takes standard rounds. The investor loads the bullet into the gun, shoots the inventor, and steals the computer, printer, and software.

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* Played with in ''Film/TheFifthElement''. Zorg hires [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy the Mangalores]] to steal a special chest containing [[MacGuffin four mystical stones]], and in return will give them four crates of very powerful guns (guns that are also rocket launchers, [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], and [[FreezeRay freezing weapons]]). When the Mangalores return with the chest, Zorg demonstrates all the fancy special features then takes a look in the chest, only to find the stones aren't there. Angry, Zorg prepares to take all the guns and leave. The Mangalores are equally angry because that means they will have risked their lives for nothing, and pull their own guns to stop Zorg from leaving with the merchandise. Zorg leaves one crate as a goodwill gesture, but explains to his assistant that there was one thing he didn't explain about the guns he gave the Mangalores; he never told them [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo what that little red button does]]. Sure enough, one Mangalore soldier playing with the guns tries it out, and it turns out that the red button is a high-explosive self-destruct.

* The {{freeware}} game ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' (a sort of dungeon-crawler/platformer hybrid) mostly averts this: [[EasilyAngeredShopkeeper all shopkeepers are armed with shotguns]] and will [[TriggerHappy fire at the slightest hint of a misdeed by the player]]. However, you pick up items in order to initiate the purchasing dialogue, and several items are indeed firearms. [[spoiler: Pick up a shotgun and shoot at point-blank range to play the trope straight. Immobilize him from behind with a webcannon and you can GoombaStomp him to death. Depending on the level layout, the player may also be able to send a ''boulder'' rolling through the shop. Anything else is significantly riskier due to the shopkeeper's vitality and agility.]] Even if you survive, [[spoiler: killing any shopkeeper means they will ''all'' shoot you on sight, and any criminal activity except murder will cause shopkeepers to camp the level exit from "just the next level" to "until the end of the game", depending on your actions.]]

'''T-800:''' ''[readies gun]'' [[PremortemOneliner Wrong.]] ''[shoots him]''

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' this trope runs in both directions. It works in the sense that Leon is capable of killing the Merchant that sells him weapons but doesn't work in the sense that once you kill the Merchant you don't get to take any of his guns off of his body or from his store. The decision not to kill the Merchant is helped by the fact that once you kill the Merchant he stays dead in that particular area forever, though he re-spawns and meets you in the next available spot in the storyline even if you did kill him in an earlier area. Except in [[KilledOffForReal Professional difficulty]].

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}''. It is set up to happen when [[EgomaniacHunter Van Pelt]], hunter of [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the most dangerous game]], visits a gun shop to buy a replacement for his custom hunting rifle (since the ammo hasn't been manufactured for almost a century) and is informed of the waiting period, but instead merely bribes the clerk with a pile of gold coins to bypass everything beyond paying for the gun and walking out with it. The shopkeeper is still dull-witted enough to let Van Pelt have a rifle and ammunition and load it to test on the "[=OPEN/CLOSED=]" sign, but Van Pelt, [[MagicAIsMagicA who cannot kill anyone he hasn't been summoned to hunt]], just buys the gun, ammo, and a scope and then leaves.

* In ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke [[WesternAnimation/LaBalladeDesDalton and the Ballad of the Daltons]]'', the Dalton brothers escape prison and need new guns. The salesman is stupid enough to let each Dalton get a pair of loaded guns.