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03-02-2009, 01:53 AM
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It depends on what you call rare? It happens when a show calls out for that weapon. I had an assistant in Ellis who loved Glock's. Then we had a show that needed all the officers armed with Glock's and he turned white when I converted them to blanks. To me it comes with the job and you just have to let go.
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03-02-2009, 02:20 AM
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Glocks, I guess I wouldn't get so worked up about, just because those can be had anywhere, for close to pocket change.
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03-02-2009, 02:49 AM
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Hopefully they'd convert a current reproduction replica and not a vintage WWII example. Then again, some of MPM's pics say they are old guns (like the vintage WWI Lugers), so do armorers convert real mint weaponry sometimes?
Didn't the HP Denzel use have a plugged barrel so he could shoot that guy in the head point blank? So technically it was plugged, but is still capable of firing low powered blanks (you can see the muzzle flash was added in in the film).
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03-02-2009, 02:58 AM
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Let's I have converted a Stg44, MP40, MP38, 1895 Maxim only 10 in the US and I converted 2 or them, Colt 1921 Thompsons, 1918 Browning Automatic Rifles on WWII variations, and a number of other NFA weapons that are expensive and rare. I know that it just makes collector cringe see what is put on film.
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03-02-2009, 04:18 AM
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Speaking of the Sturmgewehr, I've never seen any American movies with those at all. US armorers just can't get those? There were a lot of them in Downfall, but that was a German movie.
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03-02-2009, 04:35 AM
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03-02-2009, 05:26 AM
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03-02-2009, 05:31 AM
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I didn't say if there were any in the US, I'm sure there has to be a few, but I'm just saying why no American made WWII films have the Stg44s or any other ones besides Downfall.
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03-02-2009, 09:07 AM
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Also, I am differentiating between blank fire and completely inactive. Those Berettas used in Underworld now have IRON pins welded in THREE PLACES on the frame itself. Movie blank adapted pistols don't do that. In fact give us a new barrel and slide and we're back in business. I also don't consider a blank adapted live gun 'destroyed' since it can be used for movie use some other day. But many of these guns are rendered inoperable completely. The FRAME isn't destroyed in the U.S., but quite a few of the Hero guns over there in England ARE destroyed. Hopefully folks understand what I'm talking about 
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