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Joe Calabrace

Name: In Guns We Trust
Director: Josh Janssen
Released: 2026-10-22

Cross Creek Clays, Nashville

Mychael Waller shoots clays as coach Joe Calabrace looks on at Cross Creek Clays near Nashville, Tennessee. Still ›

In the film: 11 lines in 1 scene, 248 words. First speaks at 33:30.
Scenes: Mychael Waller: three times
Elsewhere: In the credits · IMDb

32:2816. MYCHAEL WALLER: THREE TIMES — NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE33:30JOE CALABRACE
Okay. Who's first?
33:34JOE CALABRACE
Now, once— when that comes out, I just want you to follow it right to get in front of it, pull the trigger. Okay? On your call.
33:50JOE CALABRACE
All right, we'll try B. Okay.
33:56JOE CALABRACE
That's a nice move.
34:05JOE CALABRACE
You're really good at this, but the thing you need to do is relax, okay? Because, you know, especially with guys that, you know, hit the gym a lot, you're like, "Okay, let me—" and you're so tight that you can't move fluidly. Everything's a jerk, okay?
34:28JOE CALABRACE
Oh, a lot different.
34:44JOE CALABRACE
You can't instinctively shoot and determine, "Well, I'm going to shoot him in the leg." No, you just shoot him to stop him. If I'm here, [unclear], and James is coming at me, guess what? He's getting the first one in the torso and the second one to the brain. I'm double-tapping his ass.
36:32JOE CALABRACE
Oh my gosh, yeah. I guess the twenty years I spent in the military, everything, any emotion you had was stifled. That's what he's describing. It's just, look at our movies in America, okay? Well, how does the good guy save the good people? He shoots them, you know? But yet we take the gun and we turn it into this weapon of destruction. No, it saves lives. He'd be dead. Him and his son may be dead right now, you know, if he wasn't carrying, you know.
37:08JOE CALABRACE
Now, just make sure it's unloaded.
37:10JOE CALABRACE
And then put it in a rack.
37:12JOE CALABRACE
Next victim.

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