Doesn't the Prop Store bug you?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Ah, gotcha.Yeah, understandable. Though certainly, destroying the frame and slide is pretty expensive. I would shudder to do it on something for which no replacement parts are easily available.

I think you mean ''Barrel'' and slide. We don't destroy our frames in the movie business here in the states, unless we are specifically creating a non-functional dummy gun from a real one.

I've welded up some damaged live guns before, some of them were (slightly) crushed either by a vehicle or a falling tree in their past lives and were not safe to fire live rounds out of ever again. I had an M1911A1 that was run over by a armored vehicle on a dirt road in years ago, and the frame had mini cracks and was slightly crushed so that it would not take milspec replacement parts any more. It was not safe to fire either live or blank rounds (actually it wouldn't function period), so I welded the crap out of it and made a dummy gun. Of course that was back in the 1980s when ATF wasn't changing the 'definition' of De-wat every six months either.

But would I destroy the frame of an operable weapon? Uh, hell no. But apparently the poor bastards in the Politically Correct UK don't even have de-wats or replicas to play with any more....