(Aliens) - M41A Pulse Rifle

M41A Pulse Rifle - 10mm caseless/30mm grenades. The weapon pictured here is one of the actual screen-used pulse rifles from Aliens, and Alien³ (it is still painted black from its use on the latter film). This is the only M41A that Bapty & Co. (U.K.) left intact after Aliens was filmed. Photo taken by Dan Shea for Long Mountain Outfitters.

M41A Pulse Rifle

The "M41A Pulse Rifle" is a fictional firearm invented for the world of Aliens. It uses a 100 round magazine loaded with 10x24mm, explosive tip, caseless, light armor-piercing rounds, although supposedly downloaded to 99 to prevent stoppages. It is fitted with an underslung pump-action 4 shot 30mm grenade launcher. The prop was composed of an aluminium shroud, and M1 Thompson for the main gun, a Remington 870 as the grenade launcher, and uses a Franchi SPAS-12 cut down pump grip and heatshield over the 870.

The M41A Pulse Rifle has been used in the following:

Film

• All of the Colonial Marines and Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Aliens

• Weyland/Yutani operatives use it briefly to shoot a prison guard after he attacks their Bishop Unit in Alien³

Television

• In the Simpsons episode The Lastest Gun In The West, criminal Snake Jailbird and his gang rob a bank using the M41A.

• In the Ben 10 Alien Force episode "Kevin's Big Score", a M41A Pulse rifle is found in the Rust bucket's gun rack when Kevin shows Argit the hidden Alien Tech.

• In South Park the pulse rifle frequently shows up as a firearm carried by any armed characters.

Video Games

The weapon has appeared in many Alien/AVP-based games.

• It is used by police in the 1999 game "G-Police: Weapons of Justice" in the opening FMV.
• It is used in Aliens vs. Predator 2.
• Aliens: Colonial Marines