Not so common guns on TV or movies.

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The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World!!! Charles Vine and his Broomhandled Mauser!

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When you are second best... you have to try a little harder.

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Rogue One had one of the protagonists carting around an AR lower and upper as a blaster. You can see the safety lever and bolt release on posters.


And if anyone watches the tv show Taken, id really like to know what takedown rifle the character Brian Mills uses, IMFDB hasn't been updated to the third/fourth episode yet.
 
Movie guns...

I had the chance to do some work on the set of a new cop show based in Miami.

This experience answered a lot of questions I had about movie and TV guns.

First off the guns are not real. These guns were made to look big and ugly but was just empty shells. I was lucky to have set up in the corner where some "SPECIALISTS" were arming the actors. The scene was in a police station where 90% of the actors was armed. with what looked like a combination of a cz and a 92f... huge guns. i always wondered why these big guns didn't weigh the actors pants down, they was light as a feather. they used paddle holsters and duty holsters. my input was not! welcome. i pointed out that an actor was carrying an obvious 9mm or .45 but was wearing a .380 mag as spare ammo. or that they were putting handcuff cases where spare mag should be and spare mags behind their gum... i was asked not so politely to mind my own business. so i shut up... i may have mentioned how this would be a really funny comedy show.
 
Unless the actor is going to be firing in a scene it is the norm for prop guns to be used instead of the real thing. Lower cost, less liability.
 
^^^ Additionally—as I've pointed out in past threads about movies and TV—it's becoming commonplace for prop guns to be used for everything, with muzzle flashes, ejected cases, and bullet impacts being added with CGI in post-production.

It's safer for the cast and crew; there's no need for costly armorers on-set; rare and/or historic firearms are more easily obtained because non-firing replicas or deactivated wallhangers can be used; similarly, fantastical imaginary prop guns don't have to be built around "real" functional actions in order to fire; filming is less disruptive in populated areas; and there are no coordination problems such as timing the gunfire and the bullet-impact squibs to match one another.
 
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My favorite movie, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Mickey Rourke carries a Ruger Blackhawk in .454. Half of the movie Don Johnson is making fun of him for not being able to hit anything with it.
 
One of the "Death Wish", movies with Charles Bronson. He used a Wildey. Then the T.V. series, "Dead Man's Gun", featured an engraved Schofield. I always tired to look closely at it to see if where the locking mechanism was to indicate if it was a Schofield or a S&W Model 3. It appeared to be on the frame not the end of the barrel, so a S&W Schofield.
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^that would be Death Wish 3, Martin Balsom and Marina Sirtis were in the movie as well.
 
Just watched Ghost In The Shell. One of the people was carrying a Chiappa Rhino. Not often seen.
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They couldn't even scrounge up a Mateba for Tougasa to use? I do suppose a Rhino is close enough, but that is still dissappointing.

Always liked Baldwin's futuristic LeMat in Firefly .
 
My nephew is a film editor and I always give him grief about the clickety-click sounds whenever a gun – any kind of gun - is pulled. He says the directors and producers insist on it. It’s just like the tire-screech sounds when a cop car stops. They dub it in for “dramatic effect”.

Also, gotta love the silly scope reticules they show. They either have stubby little “cross hairs” that don’t come close to crossing or so much crap blocking out the view that they’re useless.
 
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