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STORIES from the armory world....
I got a call from a movie art director. The story supposedly takes place in the late 1950s.
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Nearly every week I get a voicemail or email like this: Quote:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I love it when a low budget production enlists the aid of an active duty COP to be their weapons advisor. Sorry but COPS are not movie armorers. Their knowledge base is really deficient when it comes to movie making. I had a detective ask me the following: Quote:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I get a call from a low budget film production and they want to rent some firearms and they want full flash from the muzzle like in other movies. I give them a quote and note that many of the live firing weapons they need requires a licensed handler on set, I can't just hand them off to them and say "Have a nice day". I get a call back from them later which usually goes like this: Quote:
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Can you mention the 1959 film with the Xd's name? i just HAVE to see that.
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WOW those are some great stories. The one asking you to ship them the guns is the best. Do low budget films often try to use a cop for the weapons advisor or on-set armorer?
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In fact right now, I am providing some M16A2 barreled uppers to a police department (to use on their own lower receivers) and sell them full flash blanks for some sort of training video. They can't figure out why their weak Milspec 5.56mm blanks don't appear in bright sunlight or why the blanks don't cycle the actions....... |
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Seriously guys. I cannot make this stuff up......
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So like once a week or month you're going to tell us some new ones?
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As soon as I read these, I started thinking about a quote from some famous guy regarding the universe and stupidity and which is infinite.
And Jesus Christ...if my local PD had cops who were as stupid as the ones you've dealt with, I'd want them fired ASAP. Of course he can't. For the same reason he posts anonymously.
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Tell us when it comes out, some things are stupid enough to bother watching...
As to a cop automatically being able to be a gun expert....I saw a news photo of a NYPD officer strolling around with his finger wrapped around the trigger of his ar-15.
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Maybe it's science fiction and involves time travel. It's odd that someone would be able to name those guns so specifically (USP-9C?) and not know they weren't around in the fifties.
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They must have just bought the airsoft stuff they though looked cool.
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