Popular Culture
One of the earliest appearances of a captive bolt pistol in popular culture is in Georges Franju's 1949 French documentary Blood of the Beasts where it is used to kill a horse at an abattoir.
It appears again in the 1976 French sadomasochism film Maîtresse, where the main character, played by Gérard Depardieu, visits a slaughterhouse and witnesses a horse being stunned by a captive bolt and then exsanguinated.
It is also depicted in the 1992 film Benny's Video and later as Anton Chigurh's weapon-of-choice in Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men and its 2007 film adaptation of the same name.
Bolt guns appear in the 1986 Dick Francis novel Bolt as well as in the Derek Raymond novel The Devil's Home on Leave, where the British characters refer to it as a "humane killer."
They have appeared on television in the seventh season episode of CSI: Miami, "And They're Offed", and the first season finale "Woman in Limbo" of Bones.
Rapper Waka Flocka Flame is seen with this weapon in his music video "Bustin At 'Em" from his album Flockaveli.
The bolt gun is the weapon of the Pariah in the multiplayer mode of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
It is also used by 1960s bank robber Cal Sweeney in episode four of season one of the TV show Alcatraz to kill a bank employee during the commission of a bank robbery in San Francisco in 2012.
It is a recurring weapon in the third season of Haven, where a mysterious man is murdering women with a bolt gun to the base of the neck and stealing their body parts. He becomes known as the Bolt-Gun Killer.
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