Tavor 21 and Resident Evil: Apocalypse
 

Some numbers aren't working here. Resident Evil: Apocalypse was released between sometime in 2004, but AFAIK Israel only just recently started issuing Tavors in 2006.

Are the Tavors in this movie legit or are they mock-ups? If they're legit, how exactly did Hollywood get a hold of them before Israeli troops did?

Can somebody shine some light on this for me and tell me if I'm missing something?

The Tavor may have been officially adopted in 2006, but it was available for foreign sales before that. The IDF's been slow to adopt it, in part because they're really not sure if it's better than the M16s/M4s that most personnel already use. As of now, the Tavor is still in somewhat limited circulation (if you watch news footage of the Gaza conflict in December/January, you'll see almost all of the Israelis were still using M16s and M4s).

Also, one of the armorers who worked on "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" visited that page and made a whole bunch of corrections and provided us with additional information on the film's guns. He said nothing about the Tavors being mock-ups or fakes.

A friend of mine with a brother in the Israeli army says that it's gonna be a while before the Tavor really makes an appearance.

If it does at all...apparently, most of the IDF brass really doesn't like the Tavor. It was the same situation back in the 70s when the Galil was introduced; nobody in the IDF wanted to give up the FALs and M16s they were already using.

The Tavor is current fielded in the Israeli military. It was in used since the last Lebanon war.

It might or might not have a future in the Israeli military. Time will tell.

Hi, we used the Tavor in the movie, no it's not a mock up but a real one, bought some from IMI direct.
IMO I hate the thing and would never want to use one ever again, directors like them though lol.

If I recognize this user name correctly, would this be Al Vrkljan speaking?

You got it.

Epic. Welcome back. I didn't get to meet you last time you were on the site, but I built you an actor page and credited you in your film roles.

Anyway, glad to have another armorer on the site.

Thanks so much for that page lol, now I feel like a real nob lol, kidding.