Video published on X platform shows John Wick actor Keanu Reeves shooting multiple firearms at Los Angeles’ Taran Tactical range with deadly accuracy and precision.
Reeves even shoots some of the guns one handed and off-handed, ringing the steel targets nonetheless.
In the clip, Reeves is seen shooting a semiautomatic handgun, a carbine-sized firearm, a .308 rifle, and a semiautomatic shotgun, among other guns.
With the pistol, he begins with his back to the target, turning at the start of a timer being run by actress Halle Berry, and drawing the gun to shoot pre-designated targets.
At one point in the video, following a sequence of rapid firing, Taran Butler, owner of Taran Tactical, can be heard saying, “That was awesome.”
Keanu Reeves wasn’t pretending to be John Wick😳 pic.twitter.com/6JThuOHtOA
— Insane Reality Leaks (@InsaneRealitys) October 21, 2023
Breitbart News visited Taran Tactical in early August 2023 and visited with Taran Butler about his work training actors, including Reeves, and others like Michael B. Jordan, Jennifer Garner, Shemar Moore, Collin Farrell, Josh Duhamel, and Chris Hemsworth.
We also watched Butler run through targets with his renowned Combat Master, a version of which Reeves used in the John Wick movie series:
When Breitbart News was with Butler, he told us how important it was that actors and actresses with whom he works really learn how to use guns; really learn how to manipulate the gun’s controls and put rounds downrange on target.
Looking at it from the viewing audience’s standpoint, Butler believes excellence in gun handling comes through and adds to the film, whatever that film may be.
The video of Reeves shooting exemplifies the excellence both he and Butler have pursued behind the scenes of the John Wick movie series.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.