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Guy Ritchie does something totally new and original, honest.

Well, that's stupid. Most movie blank firing guns cannot fire live rounds. There some very professional companies that work in that field that know their shit when it comes to safety.




Fuck me - I really want a fixed carry handle AR now......

 
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A few years ago a guy who was a film armourer was selling a load of ex film weapons in A2 Supplies when it was in Reading.

He said that all airsoft weapons were missing motors as it was a safety precaution.

I bought an MP5 supposedly used in the first 'Jason Bourne' film and sure enough it had no motor.

They'll only use GBBs for 'hero' guns when firing.  Without blanks it will be much easier for the armourer to be sure they're clear before handing to an actor.  Even if something gets stuck in the barrel it won't be deadly like previous incidents.

 
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Oh dear.  That's a good way to make your action scenes look like utter shit.

 
Actually, this is not uncommon already, hence the thread title.

 
Yeah.  For low budget stuff, they might use airsoft exclusively but proper films will generally use a mix of dummy, airsoft and blank firers.

 
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hitmanNo2 said:
Yeah.  For low budget stuff, they might use airsoft exclusively but proper films will generally use a mix of dummy, airsoft and blank firers.
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Though nothing kills the mood more for me is to see a puddle of crimped blanks spewing from a “ machine gun”…

 
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Though nothing kills the mood more for me is to see a puddle of crimped blanks spewing from a “ machine gun”…
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I'm guessing you had a fit watching the matrix when Skorpions were shown dropping 5.56 cases

 
Thinking about it, its actually a bit of a cunty thing to use someone's death as a cheap publicity stunt

 
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Thinking about it, its actually a bit of a cunty thing to use someone's death as a cheap publicity stunt
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Geezer was married to Madonna, queen of cheap stunts, with him having an absence of tits, this was the next best thing lol

 
From what I understood, one of the "nice" things about movies using airsoft guns is they don't need a qualified armourer on set, (who generally work as contractors so charge high prices) but when they use real firearms with blanks they do and so it's much more expensive. 

Reads like free advertising off the rust incident plus turning a "we did it the cheap method" to a "we took the morally superior high ground, so cut us some slack if you spot 6mm written on the guns". Both are pretty poor from a taste point of view.

 
The thing is the vast majority of viewers won't spot these things or give a shit. It's only us nerdy airsofters who will

 
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