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[[Image:L-5-Federa-Gas-Riot-Gun.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Federal L-5 Gas Riot Gun - 37mm]]
[[Image:Federal_M201-Z_Riot_Gun.JPG|thumb|right|450px|Federal M201-Z - 37mm.  Upgrade from the L-5, the M201Z has a secondary ladder sight behind the latch and the barrel is ringed for a sling swivel.  The L-5 has a plain smooth barrel.]]

Federal Laboratories Inc., of Pittsburgh PA, built a series of Gas Grenade launchers during the 1930s and 1940s.  Modern versions of this launcher exist today, looking pretty much the same, but with black synthetic furniture.  

==Specifications==

*'''Type:''' Gas Grenade/Flare Launcher
*'''Caliber:''' 37×122mm R
*'''Capacity:''' 1
*'''Fire Modes:''' Single shot

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'''The Federal Gas Riot Gun can be seen in the following films, television series, and anime used by the following actors:'''

===Film===
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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
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| ''[[Heroes for Sale]]'' || ||Police Officers||Riot Gun|| 1933
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| ''[[Bullets or Ballots]]'' |||| Police Officers ||   || 1936
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| ''[[Angels With Dirty Faces]]'' |||| Police Officers ||   || 1938
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| ''[[Sundown]]'' |||| British troops ||   || 1941
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| ''[[T-Men]]'' |||| U.S. Secret Service ||   || 1947
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| ''[[Parole, Inc.]]'' || || Raiding Police Officers ||  || 1948
|-
| ''[[He Walked By Night]]'' ||||Police Officers|| || 1948
|-
| ''[[White Heat]]''||||Police Officer ||  || 1949
|-
| ''[[Inside the Mafia]]''||||New York State Police ||  || 1959
|-
| ''[[Madigan]]''||||New York City Police||||1968
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| ''[[Bloody Mama]]'' || || FBI Agent || M201-Z || 1970
|-
| ''[[The French Connection]]'' |||| N.Y.P.D. officers ||  M201-Z || 1971
|-
|''[[Detroit 9000]]'' || . || Detroit Police officer || Federal L-5 Gas Riot Gun - 37mm || 1973
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|''[[The Laughing Policeman]]'' || . || S.F.P.D. SWAT || Federal L-5 Gas Riot Gun - 37mm || 1973
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| ''[[Mafia Junction]]'' || || NYPD officer || ||1973
|-
|''[[Fort Apache, The Bronx]]'' || . || NYPD officer|| Federal L-5 Gas Riot Gun - 37mm || 1974
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| ''[[Dog Day Afternoon]]''||  || NYPD officer||  M201-Z || 1975
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| ''[[Hennessy]]''||  || British soldier in Belfast|| || 1975
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| ''[[Two-Minute Warning]]'' ||  || SWAT officer ||  || 1976
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| ''[[And Justice For All]]'' |||| Police officer ||  M201-Z || 1979
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| ''[[Hell of the Living Dead]]'' || || Police Officer || M201-Z || 1980
|-
| ''[[Hopscotch]]''||.||FBI agent||Federal L-5 Gas Riot Gun - 37mm||1980
|-
| ''[[Death Wish 2]]'' || || Police Officer ||  || 1982
|-
| ''[[Thirteen at Dinner]]'' ||    || Actor portraying guards || showing firing HE grenades || 1985
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| ''[[Blue Velvet]]''||||  ||   || 1986
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| ''[[They Live]]'' |||| Police officers ||  || 1988
|-
| ''[[Homicide (1991)|Homicide]]''||||F.B.I. SWAT||||1991
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| ''[[Hoffa]]'' || || Riot Police ||  || 1992 
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| ''[[Curacao]]'' || || Curacao police officer || M201-Z || 1993
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| ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'' ||[[Arliss Howard]] || Owen Traft ||   || 1994
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| ''[[Mask, The|The Mask]]'' || [[Peter Riegert]] || Lt. Mitch Kellaway ||  || 1994
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===Television===

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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="80"|'''Air Date'''
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|[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1|The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]||[[John Van Dreelen]]||Harold Bufferton||  "The Giuoco Piano Affair" (S01E07) ||1964-1968
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| [[Adam-12]] ||  [[William Boyett]] || Sergeant MacDonald || M201-Z || 1968 - 1975
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| [[Adam-12]] ||  [[Martin Milner]] || Officer Pete Malloy || M201-Z || 1968 - 1975
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| [[Adam-12]] || [[Kent McCord]] || Officer Jim Reed || M201-Z || 1968-1975
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| [[Hawaii Five-0 (1968)]] ||||HPD Officers || M201-Z|| 1968-1980
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|[[S.W.A.T. (1975)|S.W.A.T.]] || [[Mark Shera]] || Officer Dominic Luca |||| 1975-1976
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| [[Professionals (TV Series), The|The Professionals]]||.||Special Branch agents||M201-Z|| 1977-1981
|-
|''[[Hill Street Blues]]''||||Emergency Action Team|||| 1981 - 1987
|-
| [[A-Team, The|The A-Team]] / "Semi-Friendly Persuasion" ||  [[Dwight Schultz]] || Cpt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock ||  || 1983 - 1987
|-
|  [[A-Team, The|The A-Team]] / "When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?" ||[[Lance LeGault]] || Col. Roderick Decker ||  || 1983 - 1987
|-
|  [[Bugs]] / "The Price of Peace" ||||  ||  M201-Z || 1995 - 1999
|-
| ''[[Flashpoint (2008)]]'' / "Eagle Two" ||[[David Paetkau]] || Sam Braddock ||  M201-Z || 2008
|-
| ''[[Flashpoint (2008)]]'' / "Backwards Day" || [[Sergio Di Zio]] || Mike "Spike" Scarlatti || M201-Z || 2008
|-
|  ''[[Flashpoint (2008)]]'' || [[Amy Jo Johnson]] || Juliana Calaghan || M201-Z || 2008
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|''[[Agent Carter - Season 2|Agent Carter]]''||[[Enver Gjokaj]]||Chief Daniel Sousa||||2016
|-
|}

===Video Games===

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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|''' Release Date'''
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| [[Battlefield 2]] ||  || M201-Z with vertical foregrip, firing teargas rounds || 2005
|-
|}

===Anime===

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!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note'''
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| [[Black Magic M-66]] || Commandos || M201-Z, firing specialized grenades || 1987
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