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X2 (2003)

X2 (also known as X2: X-Men United) is the second installment in the X-Men film franchise that began with the original 2000 film. The 2003 sequel featured most of the cast from that film and Bryan Singer returned as director. The story of the current X-Men would culminate in 2007's X-Men: The Last Stand.

The following weapons appear in the film X2:

SIG-Sauer P228

The handguns used by the Secret Service agents and USSS Uniformed Division Officers during the whitehouse attack are SIG-Sauer P228 pistols. In real life, the 9x19mm P228 was used by Secret Service until it was replaced by the SIG-Sauer P229 chambered in .357 SIG.

SIG-Sauer P228 9x19mm

A Secret Service agent opens up on Nightcrawler.

Another Secret Service agent with his SIG.

Secret Service agents protecting the President.

Heckler & Koch MP5A5

The Heckler & Koch MP5A5 can be seen being used by Secret Service ERT members in the White House attack, fitted with Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights.

Heckler and Koch MP5A5

A Heckler & Koch MP5A5 is held by a Secret Service agent protecting the President during the assassination attempt by Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming).

The Safe/Semi/Burst/Full Auto selector group can be seen on the Secret Service ERT agent's MP5A5 in the right image.

Dart Guns

Yurikko's Plastic Dart Gun

Yurikko "DeathStrike" (Kelly Hu) uses a plastic Dart gun to incapacitate Cyclops

Commando Dart Gun

The commandos who raid the school are all armed with Dart Guns in addition to their P90s to prevent "A dead mutant kid on the 6 o'clock news", the President's main concern about the raid.

Sgt. Lyman incapacites a mutant boy.

Dart gun on background commando

FN P90

The FN P90 can be seen being used by Col. Stryker (Brian Cox)'s Black Ops team on their raid on the Xavier school. They are fitted with tactical flashlights and suppressors (though the full sound of the P90 is heard when fired). Some of the P90s are also seen equipped with some sort of Tazer, most likely used as some sort of less-lethal CQB weapon.

FN P90 5.7x28mm

One of Stryker's Black Ops team with his suppressed FN P90 while fighting with Wolverine

A Black Ops team member opens fire with the suppressed P90.

Wolverine kills one of Stryker's men holding a P90.

Grenades

Grenades are used by the commandos at the school as spike grenades and by the soldiers at Alkali Lake though they are likely the same prop.

Spike Grenade

The Commandos that raid the school all seem to have some kind of spike grenade though it is likely a fictitious weapon meant to be planted on walls or ice.

Col. Stryker stabs a spike grenade into the icewall

Fragmentation Grenade

Magneto (Ian McKellen) uses his magnetic powers to pull the pins on the Alkali Lake soldier's grenades to kill them all. Although portrayed as High-Explosive Fragmentation (HE-Frag), they look more like the M84 stun grenade than any HE-Frag grenades in the inventory.

Closeup of a grenade on a soldier's vest

Magneto uses his powers to pull the pins on the Alkali Lake soldiers' grenades.

Glock 17

Boston Police Department officers can be seen using Glock 17s as their sidearms in the film, one of them shooting Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in the head, though he survives the seemingly fatal shot and is able to walk away, much to the officer's bewilderment.

Later on the film Sgt. Lyman uses a Glock 17 on Mystique but when he is guarding Cerebro 2 it changes to a Walther P99.

3rd Generation Glock 17

Glock 17 9x19mm

Wolverine trying to show that he is a mutant and not some knife wielding psycho

2nd Generation Glock 17

Generation 2 Glock 17

Walther P99

Col. Stryker's soldiers at the Alkali Lake base can be seen carrying Walther P99 pistols as their sidearms.

Walther P99 9x19mm

One of Stryker's men holding his Walther P99 on Wolverine at Alkali Lake

Strykers men open up with their sidearms on Mystique (Walther P99 on the hands of soldier on the left and Glock 17 in hands of Sgt. Lyman)

Sgt. Lyman(Peter Wingfield) takes out the control room cameras

M4A1 Carbine

Col. Stryker's soldiers at the Alkali Lake complex can be seen armed primarily with M4A1 carbines fitted with RIS foregrips, tactical flashlights, and laser pointers.

M4A1 Carbine 5.56x45mm

Two of Stryker's men hold M4A1 carbines on Wolverine at Alkali Lake

One of Stryker's men guards the Spillway with a M4A1 carbine. The M4A1 in this shot is a rubber stunt version; note the filled-in rear sight, a telltale sign of the casting process.

Stryker's men guard Cerebro 2 armed with M4A1 carbines

Another shot of Stryker's men guarding Cerebro 2 with their M4A1 carbines

Trivia

Dogtags

Wolverine was given special dogtags before his bones were laced with Adamantium, interestingly however his dogtags are the Canadian type, not the American, which would be correct for the comics since the Weapon X project that created Wolverine was the Canadian government.

Behind the Scenes

These shots are from the Gallery of Def Con 5 http://www.def-con-5.com/.

Some of the actors playing Stryker's Commando's

In this one, you can see Hugh Jackman posing with them.

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 ===Commando Dart Gun===
-The Commandos who raid the school are all armed with Dart Guns in addition to their P90s to coincide with the President's concern of "A dead mutant kid on the 6 o'clock news".
+The commandos who raid the school are all armed with Dart Guns in addition to their P90s to prevent "A dead mutant kid on the 6 o'clock news", the President's main concern about the raid.
 [[Image:X2commandotranq.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sgt. Lyman incapacites a mutant boy.]]
 [[Image:X2p903.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Dart gun on background commando]]

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