“ Penn & Teller do not claim they catch the bullet that is fired from the gun .”
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Speaking of presentations , all through the years each performer has had only one presentation for the bullet catch . P & T have three , and probably by the time I am done writing this lengthy treatise on the Magic Bullet , they will have thought of another . Everything Jamy Ian Swiss writes about P & T is true . They do lock themselves in a room for a week at a time and brainstorm . They are always thinking , and always improving . They have a definite direction that they want to take each effect and they want it to be original . On top of that they are genuinely nice guys . Teller still writes to my son and they have since had my wife and me as guests once again at Bally ’ s that is fired from the gun . They think their audiences are too smart for that . But they do want them to think that there is some magic to the bullet that causes it to get from one side of the stage to the other therefore they get away from calling it a bullet catch , and call it the “ magic bullet .”
Unfortunately , Penn and Teller had to retire the effect after the tragic shooting in Las Vegas on October 1 , 2017 , that killed 60 people and wounded 413 , it was the right thing to do .
How much of the “ Magic Bullet ” is Banachek ’ s ? I feel that it is very little , and by now probably even less .
And that brings us back to where we started , the name “ Magic Bullet !” Penn & Teller do not claim they catch the bullet
“ Penn & Teller do not claim they catch the bullet that is fired from the gun .”