SWAT weapons in Speed

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by bubble920

Can somebody please tell me why the entire LAPD SWAT team only used HK94A2s or look a like MP5s and there weren't any M16s or carbine variants?
This was filmed in 1994 but has it got something to do with the armourer or the LAPD technical advisor?

(1.) In 1994, the MP5 would have been standard-issue to LAPD SWAT. M16s were only issued for armored suspects.

(2.) Our own Steve Karnes worked on the guns for that movie while he was the gunsmith at Ellis Props & Graphics. The MP5s were HK94s converted by LaFrance Specialties and supplied by Ellis to the propmasters of "Speed". The reason that you see the partially-converted HK94s is because it was sometimes too expensive to convert them to look completely like MP5s, and since armories have to stock dozens of identical weapons, they didn't always have the money. So they would buy HK94s, chop the barrels and install DIAS, and it would be cheaper than buying a factory MP5 or undergoing a full conversion.