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<font face="Arial">Thanks, didn't know they did that much work on
standard guns. I knew the sci-fi guns took quite a bit of work.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/15/2015 08:52 AM, Alf Sauve' via
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<blockquote cite="mid:55CF6049.4040402@sauve.org" type="cite">There's
a lot more to movie guns than just putting in reduced charge
blanks. In fact that's exactly what they don't do. A whole
industry was created to make guns function safely for movies.
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The leader in movie weaponry is ISS.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://issprops.com/weapons">http://issprops.com/weapons</a>
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They may start with a real gun, but they will totally change the
inside. Some work off of CO2 or other compressed gas.
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Besides making them safe from a "projectile" standpoint, they also
make them safe from a hearing standpoint. The Bang is added in
post production. But at the same time, the guns have to look and
act like the real thing. Actors may be trained to fake the
recoil, since most of their guns will have much lower recoil than
in real life. Look at ISS's NON GUN guns.
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I think Gun Stories or Shooting Gallery (Outdoor Channel) did a
whole episode on ISS. Fascinating stuff. I believe, if I
remember correctly, they showed how they designed Hans Solo's gun
in that episode.
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Alf
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