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

File:Mini14-2.jpg

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
Romancing the Stone	Michael Douglas	Jack Colton		1984
Romancing the Stone	Various actors	Zolo's men		1984
Romancing the Stone	Various actors	Ira's Men		1984
Commando	Various actors	Arius' men	Mini-14 GB, stainless steel models blued models	1985
Death Wish 3		Gang Members	Folding stocks and aftermarket stocks	1985
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	Angry Anderson	Ironbar	underfolding stock	1985
Crocodile Dundee		City Cowboys		1986
Crocodile Dundee		Roo-shooters		1986
Cobra	Various actors	Night Slasher gangmembers	AC-556K	1986
Fatal Beauty	Mike Jolly	Earl Skinner	AC556K	1987
Death Wish 4	Charles Bronson	Paul	Folding stock, mounted with a scope and suppressor	1987
A Fish Called Wanda	Michael Palin	Ken	scoped AC556 with suppressor	1988
Crocodile Dundee II		Drug Dealer gangmembers		1988
In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders	David Soul	Michael Platt	AC-556K	1988
In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders	Various actors	Paramilitary group	AC-556K	1988
Predator 2		Jamaican Drug Gang	AC556K	1990
[[Nothing But Trouble]	Valri Bromfield	Miss Purdah	Stainless W/ Scope	1991
Lethal Weapon 3		Travis' henchmen		1992
[[Beyond the Law]			Stainless Steel, Folding Stock	1992
Léon (The Professional)	Various actors	NYPD ESU officers	Mini-14 GB-F	1994
Tommy Boy	Rob Lowe	Paul Barish		1995
The Usual Suspects		Redfoot's henchmen	Mini-14 GB-F, optics mounted	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
Hard Rain	Minnie Driver	Karen	AC556	1998
Hard Rain	Various actors	Police officers and criminals	AC556	1998
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
Formula 51				2001
Equilibrium	Various actors	Armored Sweeper	Synthetic furniture	2002
Once upon a time in Mexico	Antonio Banderas	El Mariachi		2003
Once upon a time in Mexico	Various actors	Barrilo's men		2003
S.W.A.T. (2003)	Various actors	Gang members	AC556K	2003
Curse of the Komodo	Melissa Brasselle	Tiffany	Stainless, Butler Creek™ aftermarket synthetic folding stock with pistol grip, scoped, and stainless barrel shroud and muzzle brake	2004
New Police Story		Fire	AC556F	2004
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada	Various actors	Mexican Ranchers		2005
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
The American	George Clooney	Jack	Mini-14 (pre 2005 style) with factory folding Stock and hand-made suppressor	2010

Television

Actor	Character	Show Title / Episode	Note	Air Date
Miami Vice - Season 1/ "The Hit List"	Jim Zubiena	Ludovici Armstrong	AC556K with folding stock	1984-1985
Miami Vice - Season 1/ "Cool Runnin"	Various actors	SRT members	AC556 with folding stock	1984-1985
Miami Vice - Season 1/ "The Maze"	Various actors	SRT members	AC556 with full stock	1984-1985
The A-Team	George Peppard	Hannibal Smith		1983-1988
The A-Team	Dirk Benedict	Templeton "Faceman" Peck		1983-1988
The A-Team	Dwight Schultz	"Howling Mad" Murdock		1983-1988
Space: Above and Beyond	Morgan Weisser	Lt. Nathan West	M590 Assault Rifle, a heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell	1995-1996
Space: Above and Beyond	Kristen Cloke	Captain Shane Vansen	M590 Assault Rifle, a heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell	1995-1996
Space: Above and Beyond	Rodney Rowland	Lt. Cooper Hawkes	M590 Assault Rifle, a heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell	1995-1996
Space: Above and Beyond	Various actors	US Marines	M590 Assault Rifle, a heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell	1995-1996
24/ "7 p.m.-8 p.m."	Kiefer Sutherland	Jack Bauer		2005
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	Shane Edelman	Matt Murch		2008-2009
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	Dean Winters	Charley Dixon		2008-2009
CSI: Miami/ "Lost Son"	Various actors	Police honor guard	black synthetic stocks and chromed metal parts	2002-???
CSI: Miami/ Season 1		A woman		2002-???

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.