The following guns were used in the film Payback:
Payback: The Director's Cut (1999)
Smith & Wesson Model 27
Porter (Mel Gibson) uses a blued Smith & Wesson Model 27 4" with S&W factory combat grips for the majority of the film after buying it in a pawn shop. It is not a Smith & Wesson Model 29 as previously mentioned, as the diameter of the muzzle and cylinder chambers is clearly too small to be .44 Magnum.
Smith & Wesson Model 27 6" - .357 Magnum.
The pawn shop owner hands Porter a Smith & Wesson Model 27 from off the rack. His lack of gun safety is pretty obvious as he hands him the gun with the hammer cocked and his finger on the trigger.
Left: Porter swings open the cylinder and spins it. A ratcheting sound effect is heard even though there is nothing for the cylinder to ratchet against.
Right: Porter examines the gun like a real pro by pointing the muzzle at himself.
After doing some flashy twirling, Porter hands the shop owner the Model 27 back to make a purchase. No FFL, no handgun liscence, no waiting period, no way...
Porter searches his wife's house with his Model 27 at the ready. He has a "USMC" tattoo on his shoulder, so you'd assume he'd know how to clear a room. Instead he does what is typically done in films and wanders around the house with the revolver cocked and pointed at the ceiling.
A Model 27 with regular grips is seen in Detective Hicks' (
Bill Duke) holster.
Porter holds his Model 27 on Val in the hotel room.
Porter uses a pillow to muffle the gunshot as he executes Val. This is movie fiction, as a pillow would not properly suppress a handgun, especially a revolver. It is also pointless since three rounds are fired before this.
Porter holds his Model 27 on the Detectives before handing it to them outside the "Outfit's" building.
Arthur Stegman (
David Paymer) holds a Model 27 on Porter in the back of a Taxi cab before he takes it from him.
Porter fires the Model 27 in an awkward akimbo stance along with a
Beretta 92FS at the Triads, unloading about 13 rounds from his six shot revolver. For whatever reason he chose to put the heavier recoil handgun in his non-dominant hand, a poor choice in the real world.
Porter fires the two guns through the floor of the Triad van. You can see he is simply dry-firing the gun as no muzzle flash is seen, likely a safety procaution for firing blanks at such close proximity.
A close up of the guns firing, with excellent shots of the gun's markings.
Porter rolls out from under the van and shoots the Triad driver.
Porter holds the Model 27 on Pearl (
Lucy Liu).
The gun clicks empty. That's the inconveniance of movie guns, they can fire off a ridiculous amount of ammunition but never have a bullet left when you really need it.
Internal Affiars officers show off Porter's original Model 27 to Det. Hicks (
Bill Duke) and Det. Leary (
Jack Conley) after Porter left the gun (covered with their fingerprints) at the scene of Val's murder, along with one of their badges.
Smith & Wesson Model 28 Highway Patrolman
Porter (Mel Gibson) uses a S&W M28 Highway Patrolman .357 Magnum with a four-inch barrel to hold up Pearl (Lucy Liu).
Smith & Wesson Model 28 Highway Patrolman.
File:PayM283.jpg In the shootout with the Chinese gangsters Porter's revolver shoot about 30-32 shots!
File:PayM285.jpg In this wonderful close-up you can read even the Beretta and S&W marks.
File:PayM286.jpg Porter uses his Model 28 in combination with his Beretta to shoot up the Chinese mobsters through the back of the car
File:PayM289.jpg Another shot of Porter showering bullets through the back of the gangsters' car
File:PayM2810.jpg Porter is going to kill Pearl before discovering his revolver is empty.
Walther PP
Val Resnick (Gregg Henry) carries a Walther PP as second gun.
Walther PPK
Porter is then held at Gunpoint by Pearl (Lucy Liu) armed with a Walther PPK with Pearl grips.
File:PayPPK4.jpg Pearl shoots through the floor of the car to try and hit porter underneath.
SIG-Sauer P220
A chinesee gang member fires a SIG-Sauer P220. Porter steal this from a bodyguard to fires Carter. (Thanks to MT2008)
M3 "Grease Gun"
At one point in the movie, Porter is attacked by a group of Chinese gangsters he had robbed earlier, two of them are armed with M3 "Grease Guns". They clearly have a charging handle making them the older M3s, not M3A1s.
Colt Python
Mrs. Lynn Porter (Deborah Kara Unger) uses a silver Colt Python to shoots porter.
Beretta 92FS
Porter (Mel Gibson) fires back with a Beretta 92FS, as well as his S&W 28. He takes this gun from the Val Resnick (Gregg Henry) body.
Glock 17
A Chinese mobster is seen firing a Glock 17 2nd Generation at Porter.
Smith & Wesson Model 38 "Bodyguard"
Val Resnick (Gregg Henry) is seen carries in the ankle holster a S&W M38 "Bodyguard".
Smith & Wesson Model 13
Porter (Mel Gibson) aims a S&W M13 when his wife shoot to him.
Heckler & Koch VP70
A chinesee gang member fires a H&K VP70.
Remington 870 Sawed-Off
Radioman (Kwame Amoaku) tries to save Arthur Stegman (David Paymer) with a Remington 870 Sawed-Off.
Smith & Wesson 669
The drug delaer carries a S&W 669 with bobbed hammer installed.
Heckler & Koch P7M13
A Carter (William Devane) bodyguard points a H&K P7M13.
Ruger Mk II
A thug in the station open his lunchbox to use a suppressed Ruger MkII.
Ruger Mk II pistol with professional Ciener Suppressor.
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