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Did you know

<random> @@@ ... that a lot of television series substitute the M249 for visually modified Daewoo K3 machine guns? @@@ ... that most firearms used on The A-Team (TV Series) are actually semi-automatic only? The actors were told to pull the triggers rapidly and in conjunction with the sound and special effects the illusion of automatic fire was achieved. @@@ ... that a lot of the Heckler & Koch SR9 sniper rifles seen on-screen are actually converted Heckler & Koch HK91? @@@ ... that Bruce Willis used a Beretta 92F in the first Die Hard movie, but a Beretta 92FS in the second and third? @@@ ... that during Yuri Orlov's (Nicolas Cage) review of the weapon stockpile in Lord of War, the production actually used 3.000 real SA Vz.58 assault rifles? @@@ ... that the Cobray 37mm Launcher is often used to impersonate the M203? @@@ ... that most of the weapons seen on Torchwood are actually airsoft? @@@ ... that most films in the 1980s and 1990s use chopped and converted Heckler & Koch HK94s and Heckler & Koch SP89s as a stand-in for the real MP5K, MP5A3, and MP5A2? @@@ ... that the first appearance of the Steyr AUG in a Hollywood film was in Octopussy? @@@ ... that the "SVD Dragunov" used by Ah Jong (Chow Yun-Fat) in The Killer was actually a modified Norinco Type 56? @@@ ... that the first appearance of the M16 in a Hollywood film was in Seven Days in May? @@@ ... that there are a mix of real Uzi submachine guns and MAC-10s made to resemble Uzis in The Dogs of War? @@@ ... that the first appearance of the G36 in a Hollywood film was in The World Is Not Enough? @@@ ... that all of the "AK-47" rifles in District 9 are actually modified Vektor R5s? @@@ ... that the first appearance of the Desert Eagle in a Hollywood film was in Year of the Dragon? @@@ ... that because 9mm blanks were more reliable than .45 ACP blanks prior to the 1980s, the Star Model B was often substituted for the M1911 pistol. @@@ ... that the first appearance of the Glock 17 in media was in Miami Vice (TV Series)? @@@ ... that the M41A Pulse Rifle from Aliens was built from a M1 Thompson submachine gun and a shortened Remington 870 shotgun with a SPAS 12 foregrip? @@@ ... that a Jordanian general provided the Beretta 92 used by SFC William James (Jeremy Renner) in The Hurt Locker? @@@ ... that in Hard Boiled, the famed Beretta 92Fs of the film were actually the aesthetically similar Taurus PT92s? @@@ ... that in Soviet films such as Solo Voyage and Pirates of the XXth Century, the Sturmgewehr 44 stood in for the M16? @@@ ... that director Michael Mann used Barrett M82 sniper rifles with live .50 BMG ammunition to destroy a car for a scene in Miami Vice (2006)? <random>