Talk:The X-Files - Season 3

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An operative with what appears to be a Heckler & Koch MP5A3 with mounted weaponlight in "Paper Clip" (S3E02).

Not sure what this is, but I don't think it's an MP5A3 because it doesn't seem to have the front sight. In S3E16, one of the soldiers is briefly seen with a Calico M950 and he holds a flashlight underneath the barrel - I wouldn't be surprised if that same gun appeared in this episode first (in this screencap). -MT2008 (talk) 11:41, 10 September 2014 (EDT)

Also, pretty sure that short-barreled shotgun used by the soldier in S3E01 is the Franchi PA3/215, because I know Tom Felcan has one of those and uses it all the time (Reindeer Games is the most obvious example). -MT2008 (talk) 11:49, 10 September 2014 (EDT)

The PA3 is spot-on, in fact I had thought it looked a lot like the one in Reindeer Games, makes sense. I had first thought it was the shorty Ithaca we see later in the show, but this gun has a side eject port and the Ithaca had no folding stock, so again I'm with ya there. As for the MP5, I'm quite that's what it is - It's damn hard to tell anything in that picture though.. I had thought it might be a Calico, but I remember watching it and seeing the general layout/shape of the MP5, including a box magazine. Both pictures kinda suck (this one especially), I'm hoping to get slightly better ones and enhance 'em better if I can. StanTheMan (talk) 12:41, 10 September 2014 (EDT)