Thursday, 1 November 2012

Top Guns in Cinema (Top Gun...gettit? I made a funny)

I love action films and I also quite like guns, though I'll be the first to admit I'm woefully uneducated on the latter. Still, here's a list of iconic guns used in cinema

Desert Eagle

A gun so stupid-looking its actually epic.Originating from Israel, it had gained quite a following through its use in various films. My favourite are probably Demi Moore's Golden guns, in the Charlies Angels sequel


Thompson Submachine Gun


AKA the Tommy gun, this is the classic Gangster weapon, complete with the now iconic Circular magazine. Used in more films than I can list, from Inglourious Basterds and Watchmen, through to O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Road to Perdition, with everything in between
 
AK-47

In 1946 Mikhail Kalashnikov invented an automatic assault rifle...some minor modifications aside, it hasn't really changed since then, and has ended up becoming the most popular rifle on the planet. Its also used in every single action film EVER

M60

Now mainly replaced with the M240, the Original M60 has seriously done the rounds, being used in every single branch of the US military. Notable for its disintegrating chain belt of M13 links, it provided Rambo with the apparent ability to keep firing for insane periods of time without the need to reload.

Marushin M1887 shotgun

The Shotgun used by Arnie to bring about epic destruction in the Terminator films. Not as well known or commonly used as the Mossberg series, but iconic regardless

Walther PPK


This is actually quite a crappy looking gun, the sort of thing a slinky female operative has under her garter. Somehow it was chosen as James Bond's gun and thus had some small measure of cool restored to it. It's definitely practical from a spy point of view...but it just looks silly doesn't it?

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