Ruger Mini-14

The Ruger Mini-14/AC556 can be seen in the following movies and television series used by the following actors:

Blued Ruger Mini-14 Standard Model Semiautomatic Rifle (Pre-2005) with 30 round magazine - 5.56x45mm

Ruger AC556 Carbine - 5.56x45mm. This is the full automatic version of the Mini 14 with a distinctive Barrel and bayonet lug. Ruger also offers the Mini-14 GB ("Government Barrel" Model) which is a semi automatic only version of the AC556 for Law Enforcement and (some) civilian sales. The Full Auto AC556 has a distinctive Auto Selector Switch on the back of the receiver that the Semi Auto Ruger Mini 14 does not.

Stainless Steel Ruger AC556 Carbine with Full Stock - 5.56x45mm

Stainless Steel Ruger Mini-14 GB-F ("Government Barrel, Folding Stock") - 5.56x45mm

Ruger AC556K with 20-round magazine 5.56x45mm

Stainless Steel Mini-14 GB in an Aftermarket Choate Folding Stock, as used by the Military of Bermuda - 5.56x45mm

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Current production Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle"; inline wooden stock and blued finish with 5-round magazine - 5.56x45mm. This is the production model after 2005 with changes to the receiver, the front sight placement and rear sight.

Ruger Mini-14

Please note that many times a semi auto only Mini 14 GB rifle is used to impersonate a full auto AC556, especially when mounted into a factory folding stock. Unless the rifle fires full auto, or one can clearly see the selector switch (which the Mini 14 doesn't have) it will be identified as a Mini-14 until it's pedigree as an AC556 can be verified.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	Angry Anderson	Ironbar	underfolding stock	1985
Crocodile Dundee		City Cowboys		1986
Crocodile Dundee		Roo-shooters		1986
Fatal Beauty	Mike Jolly	Earl Skinner	AC556K	1987
A Fish Called Wanda	Michael Palin	Ken	scoped AC556 with suppressor	1988
Crocodile Dundee II		Drug Dealer gangmembers		1988
Predator 2		Jamaican Drug Gang	AC556K	1990
Lethal Weapon 3		Travis' henchmen		1992
Léon (The Professional)	Various actors	NYPD ESU officers	Mini-14 GB-F	1994
Tommy Boy	Rob Lowe	Paul Barish		1995
Escape from LA	George Corraface	Cuervo Jones	AC556 stainless steel variant with a polymer Choate Stock and mounted scope	1996
Escape from LA	Kurt Russell	Snake Plissken	AC556stainless steel variant with a polymer Choate Stock and mounted scope	1996
Escape from LA	Various actors	Gang member		1996
Broken Arrow	John Travolta	Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins	Ruger AC-556K	1996
The Long Kiss Goodnight	Geena Davis	Charly Baltimore	Stainless variant with black synthetic stock, scope, and custom stainless muzzle break, heat shield/barrel shroud	1996
Face/Off	Various actors	Prison guards	AC556	1997
Face/Off	Chris Bauer	Ivan Dubov	AC556	1997
Breakdown	M.C. Gainey	Earl		1997
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Forest Whitaker	Ghost Dog	folding stock, homemade suppressor, and scope attached		1999
Boondock Saints		A Prison Guard	Choate folding stock	1999
Once upon a time in Mexico	Antonio Banderas	El Mariachi		2003
Once upon a time in Mexico	Various actors	Barrilo's men		2003
Delta Farce	Various actors	Carlo Santana's men		2007
We Own the Night	Various actors	NYPD ESU officers		2007
Elite Squad	Various actors	Drug dealers		2007
Mesrine: Killer Instinct	Various actors	Prison guard riflemen		2008
The Dark Knight		vigilante Batman copycat		2008
Watchmen	Various actors	NYPD ESU officers	AC556	2009
Gang members in S.W.A.T.
Redfoot's henchmen in The Usual Suspects
Formula 51
The police in Hard Rain
Seen in New Police Story
Tiffany (Melissa Brasselle) in Curse of the Komodo (Stainless Mini-14 with Black Synthetic Stock)
Mexican Ranchers in Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The
Michael Douglas as Jack Colton in Romancing the Stone
Zolo's Men & Ira's Men in Romancing the Stone
Arius' men in Commando
Gang Members in Death Wish 3
Night Slasher gang member in Cobra (AC-556K)
David Soul as Michael Platt in In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders (AC-556K)
Valri Bromfield as Miss Purdah in Nothing But Trouble (Stainless W/ Scope)
Beyond the Law (1992) (Stainless Steel, Folding Stock)
Armored Sweeper in Equilibrium
George Clooney in The American

Television

• Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24

• Wielded by numerous members of The A-Team

• CSI: Miami

• Space: Above and Beyond (a heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci Fi Shell, made by Propper Effects, Ltd. which also assisted in the production of the fictional rifles for Starship Troopers.

• Jim Zubiena as Ludovici Armstrong using the AC556 model with folding stock in Miami Vice (1984)

• Shane Edelman as Matt Murch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

• Various characters in The A-Team (1983-1988)

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City	Kruger	GB-F model		2002
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men				2007
Left 4 Dead	Hunting Rifle	w/ scope and tactical flaslight		2008
Left 4 Dead 2	Hunting Rifle	w/ scope, tactical flashlight and optional laser sight		2009
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory			AC556

Ruger Mini-14 in Muzzelite™ MZ14 Bullpup Stock

Ruger Mini-14 in a Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock - 5.56x45mm

The Muzzelite™ MZ14 is a polymer rifle stock that was designed to convert the Ruger Mini-14/AC556 into a compact bullpup carbine. Contrary to some urban legends, these were never seriously looked at as an alternative weapon for law enforcement. The trigger pull is shoddy, too long and the bullpup itself is back heavy. Most Police departments already had full auto AC556 rifles or semi auto Rugers (as well as AR-15s) if they needed a 5.56x45mm assault rifle. It is a simple vacuformed clamshell body that uses a rod to activate the trigger. The Muzzelite™ Stock was sold in configurations that could hold the Ruger Mini-14, the Ruger 10/22 and the Marlin Camp Carbine in 9x19mm, though the only version used in most movies or television shows were the Ruger Mini 14 version. Also in films like Total Recall, the AC556 full auto carbine with a shorter barrel was used inside this bullpup stock.

The Muzzelite™ stock enclosed Ruger Mini 14 has been used in countless B-Movies and television shows as a result of it's futuristic appearance. Films like Starship Troopers utilized customized futuristic guns based on the Ruger Mini inside of a Muzzelite™ stock. These were preferred by the prop makers at Hollywood's Hand Prop Room, since the futuristic shape of the Muzzelite™ stock made it easier to create unusual science fiction rifles, but also the fact that it expands the appearance potential of the Ruger Mini 14, known in the industry as "The Jamless Wonder". The Mini-14 never jams or stovepipes using movie blanks, something that cannot be said of any of the other common 5.56x45mm weapons used in films.

Film

• Starship Troopers (Heavily modified version, called the "Morita Rifle")

• The Rehab Officers Assault Rifles in RoboCop 3

• Jamaican Gangsters and Gary Busey as Special Agent Peter Keyes in Predator 2

• Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid in Total Recall

• Michael Gross as Burt Gummer in Tremors 3: Back to Perfection

• Used by team members in Dracula 3000

• Used by terrorists in Digital Man

• Resistance Troops in the future scene of Terminator 2: Judgement Day

• Ramon Cota's men and Delta Force commandos in Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection

• Used by Space Marines in Leprechaun 4: In Space with large laser sight mounted.

• Used by Water and Power agents that attack Tank Girl and her friends, modified with scopes and foreend grips. Tank Girl also uses a confiscated rifle to defend her hideout.

Television

• UEO Forces in seaQuest DSV. In the final season, known as seaQuest 2032, the Ruger was removed and the clamshell covers were modified and used as Pulse Rifles by the Macronesian Alliance.

• Vori soldiers and Robert Beltran as Chakotay in Star Trek: Voyager (episode "Nemesis", with and without tactical flashlights mounted on the carry handle)

• Space Rangers in Space Rangers. With fake grenade launcher, and obsolete gas tube laser site as an optical site.

Ruger Mini-30

Stainless Ruger Mini-30 New Production Model Semiautomatic Rifle with flush factory five round magazine - 7.62x39mm

The Ruger Mini-30 is a nearly identical rifle except chambered for 7.62x39mm. Except for the magazines, it would be hard to identify a Mini-30 from a Mini-14 based on purely visual cues.