Non Guns

Independent Studio Services

"Non Guns" are a brand name of prop weapons that are manufactured and rented by Independent Studio Services (ISS) and frequently used for scenes in movies or television shows in which the use of real weapons firing blanks is deemed unsafe for the actors or stuntmen. They are electronically-operated and discharge small explosive squibs that make a flash and produce smoke, but they do not eject shell casings or have any moving parts besides the trigger. The discharge of the squib can be loud or quiet depending on set noise regulations. This makes Non Guns safer and quieter than real weapons firing blanks, which means that they can be used on filming locations with noise ordinances or up close to other actors (which is a real concern with actual blank firing live guns).

While they have many advantages for film crews, most Non Guns bear only a loose resemblance to their live-firing counterparts, and thus stand out as fake to audiences who know what to look for. However, some film directors evidently do not take this in mind, and thus, it is plainly obvious in some movies or TV shows when Non Guns are being used. Some directors even film them up-close. Examples of such productions are seen below.

Note to IMFDB editors: If you see a Non Gun in a movie or TV show, you don't necessarily need to make a separate entry for the Non Gun on that page; it can be included under the entry for the gun it replicates. If a Beretta Non Gun appears in a movie along with its real counterpart, for instance, just include it under the Beretta 92F entry for the page.

The following are some of the Non Guns available from ISS, as well as the films and TV shows in which they have appeared.

Handguns

Colt 1911

Colt 1911 Non Gun

Non-Gun 1911 with silver finish.

A Non Gun replica of a Colt 1911 that can be used to simulate any full-size 1911-type pistol.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Rock	Ed Harris	Hummel		1996
A Beautiful Mind	Ed Harris	Parcher		2001
Road to Perdition	Tom Hanks	Michael Sullivan		2002
Sky Fighters		Terrorist		2005
Zombieland	Woody Harrelson	Tallahassee		2009
Due Date	Zack Galifianakis	Ethan Tremblay		2010
Drive Angry		Colorado police officer		2011

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
The Sopranos	Richard Maldone	Ally Boy Barese		1999-2007
The Sopranos	Dan Grimaldi	Patsy Parisi		1999-2007
The Sopranos	Steve Buscemi	Tony Blundetto		1999-2007

Glock

Glock Non Gun

A Non Gun replica of a Glock; it can be used to simulate either the full-size or compact Glock models.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Negotiator		Nate's killer		1998
The Siege				1998
The Corruptor	Mark Wahlberg	Danny Wallace		1999
The Corruptor		NYPD officers		1999
Light It Up				1999
American Psycho	Christian Bale	Patrick Bateman		2000
The Hitchhiker	David Shick	Officer Jenkins		2009
The Hitchhiker	Michael Tower	Officer Ferrati		2009
The Hitchhiker	Shaley Scott	Denise		2009
The Hitchhiker	Sarah Lieving	Melinda		2009
Zombieland		An Asian businesswoman		2009
The Other Guys	Mark Wahlberg	Detective Terry Hoitz		2010

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Criminal Minds	Thomas Gibson	FBI SSA Aaron Hotchner		2005-
Criminal Minds - Season 2	Lola Glaudini	FBI SSA Elle Greenaway	"Aftermath" (S02E05)	2006
Prison Break - Season 4	Robert Knepper	Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell	"S.O.B." (S4E19)	2009
Prison Break - Season 4	Kathleen Quinlan	Christina Scofield	"Cowboys and Indians" (S4E20)	2009
Detroit 1-8-7	Michael Imperioli	Det. Louis Fitch	"Pharmacy Double/Bullet Train" (S01E01)	2010
The Walking Dead - Season 4	Steven Yeun	Glenn Rhee	Continuity error; "Us" (S4E15)	2014

Beretta 92F

Beretta 92F Non Gun

Beretta Inox Non Gun

Non Gun replicas of the Beretta 92F/FS and Beretta 92FS Inox.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
No Way Back		Thugs		1995
The Corruptor	Chow Yun-Fat	Nick Chen		1999
The Corruptor	Byron Mann	Bobby Vu		1999
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai		Louis		1999
Narc	Jason Patric	Detective Nick Tellis		2002
Avenging Angelo	Sylvester Stallone	Frankie Delano		2002
Bad Boys II		One of Tapia's men	Inox	2003
The Punisher	John Travolta	Howard Saint		2004
Spider-Man 2		Police officers	Common and Inox	2004
Waist Deep		Various thugs		2006
Crank		Thugs		2006
The Pink Panther	Henry Czerny	Yuri		2006
The Hitchhiker	Jeff Denton	Jack		2007
The Betrayed	Christian Campbell	Kevin Taylor		2008
The Betrayed	Melissa George	Jamie Taylor		2008
Diamant 13	Asia Argento	Calhoun		2009
Due Date		US Marshal		2010
Flypaper	Ashley Judd	Kaitlin		2011

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
La Femme Nikita		Section 1 operatives		1997
The Sopranos	Steven R. Schirripa	Bobby Bacala		1999-2007
The Sopranos	Joe Maruzzo	Joe Peeps	Inox	1999-2007
Frank Riva - Season 1	Matthieu Rozé	Lt. Jean-Luc Roth		2003
Frank Riva - Season 2	Matthieu Rozé	Jean-Luc Roth		2004
Lost	Yunjin Kim	Sun	Season 2	2004-2010
Prison Break - Season 1		Goon	"Sleight of Hand" (S01E10), Inox	2005
Prison Break - Season 2	Sarah Wayne Callies	Sara Tancredi	"Sona" (S02E22)	2006
Prison Break - Season 4	Michael Rapaport	Special Agent Donald "Don" Self	"Selfless" (S04E12)	2008
Prison Break - Season 4	Shannon Lucio	Miriam Holtz	"Selfless" (S04E12)	2008
Prison Break - Season 4	Titus Welliver	The Representative	"Going Under" (S04E15)	2008
Prison Break - Season 4	Daniel Zacapa	Priest	"The Mother Lode" (S04E17)	2008
Life	Damian Lewis	Charlie Crews		2007-2009
In Plain Sight	Jason Wiles	CPD cop Robert Eps	"Good Cop, Dead Cop" (S01E09)	2008
Branch (Expozitura)	Jirí Korn	Hitman	"Tri králové" (S01E05)	2009
The Walking Dead - Season 1		US Army soldier	"TS-19" (S1E06)	2010
CSI: Miami - Season 9	Franky G	Dante Kroll	"Caged" (S09E19)	2010-2011
CSI: Miami - Season 9		The suspect	Inox; "Happy Birthday" (S09E08)	2010-2011

SIG-Sauer

SIG-Sauer Non Gun

A Non Gun replica of a SIG-Sauer pistol that can double for the P220, P225, P226, P228, or P229 if necessary.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
No Way Back	Kelly Hu	Seiko	Suppressed	1995
Fargo	Peter Stormare	Gaear Grimsrud		1996
Fargo	Steve Buscemi	Carl Showalter		1996
Men in Black		Recruits in testing		1997
The Jackal	Mathilda May	Isabella Zanconia		1997
Zombieland	Woody Harrelson	Tallahassee		2009
Game of Death	Wesley Snipes	Marcus		2010
Game of Death	Gary Daniels	Zander		2010
Game of Death	Zoe Bell	Floria		2010

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
The X-Files - Season 8	Robert Patrick	FBI Special Agent John Doggett	Substitute for P226 / "Roadrunners" (S8E04)	2000
CSI: NY - Season 2	James Badge Dale	Henry Darius	"Manhattan Manhunt" (S2E07)	2005
Prison Break - Season 2	Steven Chester Prince	Agent Blondie	"Manhunt" (S2E01)	2006
Prison Break - Season 2		Hitman	"Bolshoi Booze" (S2E11)	2006
Prison Break - Season 2	Paul Adelstein	Paul Kellerman	"The Killing Box" (S2E13)	2006
Prison Break - Season 4	Cress Williams	Wyatt	"Scylla" (S4E01), "The Price" (S4E08)	2008

Smith & Wesson .38 J-Frame Revolver

Smith & Wesson J-Frame Non Gun

A Non Gun replica of a black finish Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver that can double for the M10, M13, M15, M20, M30, M32, M34 or M38 if necessary.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Deadgirl	Shiloh Fernandez	Rickie		2008
Deadgirl	Noah Segan	JT		2008

Desert Eagle

"Non Gun" Desert Eagle

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Four Brothers	Mark Wahlberg	Bobby Mercer		2005
Next Day Air	Emilio Rivera	Bodega		2009
Next Day Air	Cisco Reyes	Bodega		2009

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
Battlestar Galactica	Lucy Lawless	"D'anna Biers/Number 3"
Southland - Season 1

Non Descript Pocket Pistol

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Shaft (2000)	Lynne Thigpen	Carla Howard		2000
My Mother, the Spy	Kevin Kilner	Gary Sutton 'Rabbi'		2000

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
The Sopranos	Joseph R. Gannascoli	Vito Spatafore		1999-2007
30 Rock	Tina Fey	Liz Lemon
New Amsterdam	Ivo Velon	Ivan Brodsky	Ep. "Reclassified" (S01E07)	2008
Prison Break - Season 4	Jodi Lyn O'Keefe	Gretchen Morgan	"The Sunshine State" (S4E16)	2008
Breaking Bad - Season 2	Angelo Martinez	Tomás Cantillo	"Mandala" (S2E11)	2009

Walther PPK

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Andy Hanson		2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Aleksa Palladino	Chris Lasorda		2007

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
The Sopranos	Michael Imperioli	Christopher Moltisanti		1999-2007
Smallville - Season 2	Garwin Sanford	Ed Brooks	"Red" (S2E04)	2002
Smallville - Season 2	Karen Holness	Bishop	"Insurgence" (S2E12)	2003
Land of the Dead	Dennis Hopper	Kauffmann
Lost	Evangeline Lilly	Kate
Chuck	Yvonne Strahovski	Sarah Walker
Prison Break - Season 4	Chris Vance	James Whistler	"Scylla" (S4E01)	2008

Smith & Wesson 66

Smith and Wesson 66 Revolver "Non Gun"

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Set It Off	WC	Darnell		1996
Narc	Ray Liotta	Detective Oak		2002
A Man Apart				2003
Dawn of the Dead	Sarah Polley	Ana		2004
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon	Robert Englund	Doc Halloran		2006

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
The X-Files - Season 8	Lee Duncan	Al Cawdry	"Redrum" (S8E06)	2000
Bones	Emily Deschanel	Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan	Pilot episode	2005
In Plain Sight		A corrupt cop	"Good Cop, Dead Cop" (S1E09)	2008
Criminal Minds - Season 5	Matthew Gray Gubler	Dr. Spencer Reid	Stand-in for S&W Model 65 / "Nameless, Faceless" (S05E01)	2009
The Spoils of Babylon	Haley Joel Osment	Winston Morehouse	"The Foundling" (E1), "So Sweet the Bells" (E6)	2014

Smith & Wesson 27

Smith and Wesson 27 Revolver "Non Gun"

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Dawn of the Dead	Kim Poirier	Monica		2004

Submachine Guns

Ingram machine pistol

Ingram Non Gun

A Non Gun replica of an Ingram-type machine pistol that can simulate a MAC-10 or MAC-11, depending on the needs of the scene.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
No Way Back	Etsushi Toyokawa	Yuji Kobayashi		1995
No Way Back		Thugs		1995
Iron Man 3	Robert Downey Jr.	Tony Stark		2013

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
Battlestar Galactica	Michael Trucco	Samuel Anders		2004-2009
Criminal Minds - Season 2	Jason Wiles	Sheppard	"Psychodrama" (S2E04)	2006
Criminal Minds - Season 2	Matthew Gray Gubler	Dr. Spencer Reid	"Psychodrama" (S2E04)	2006
24 - Season 7	Arjay Smith	Laurent Dubaku	MAC-10; Ep. 12	2009

Heckler & Koch MP5

MP5K Non-Gun

MP5A3 Non-Gun

MP5A2 Non-Gun

A Non Gun replica of a Heckler & Koch MP5.

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
The Kill Point	John Leguizamo	Jake "Mr. Wolf" Mendez
24 - Season 5	David Dayan Fisher	Beresch
Bones		A goon
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier	Tyler Dean Flores	Diego	"One World, One People" (S1E06)	2021

Rifles

AK47

AK Non Gun

A Non Gun replica of an AK-type assault rifle.

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
Jon Benjamin Has a Van			Mounted on wheelchair, "Breakdown" (S01E04)	2011
Sons of Anarchy			Ep. "AK-51" (S1E6)
Seven Days	Endre Hules	Trotsky	Pilot Episode Pt 2

M16A2

M16A2 Non Gun

M4A1 Non Gun

A Non Gun replica of an M16A2.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Cloverfield		U.S. Army soldiers

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
Alias		APO Task Force	M4A1 variants, similar to an M733 without stock	2005
The Walking Dead - Season 1		US Army soldiers	M4 and M16, w/sights; "TS-19" (S1E06)	2010
Jon Benjamin Has a Van			Mounted on wheelchair, "Breakdown" (S01E04)	2011
WandaVision		S.W.O.R.D. agent	w/sight; "The Series Finale" (S1E09)	2021

Remington 700 (Hunting Rifle)

Hunting Rifle Non Gun

A Non Gun of a wooden rifle fitted with a scope. Can be used to imitate any number of common hunting rifles (e.g. Remington 700).

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Dark Was the Night		A hunter		2014

Shotguns

Remington 870

Remington 870 "Non Gun".

Remington 870 "Non Gun" (long barrel).

Remington 870 "Non Gun" (full sized wooden stock).

A Non Gun of a Remington 870 shotgun. Can be used to imitate common shotguns (e.g. Mossberg 500 Cruisers, Ithaca 37.)

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Dawn of the Dead	Boyd Banks	Tucker		2004
The Hitchhiker	Shaley Scott	Denise		2006

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Date
Burn Notice - Season 2	Jeffrey Donovan	Michael Weston	"Seek and Destroy" (S2E12)	2007
Burn Notice - Season 2	Gabrielle Anwar	Fiona Glennanne	"Seek and Destroy" (S2E12)	2007
Longmire - Season 3	Charlotte Alexis White	Sofia	"Of children and travellers" S03E02	2014
Longmire - Season 3	Chris Freihofer	Alan Little	"Of children and travellers" S03E02	2014