LOCKED & LOADED--Hollywood's profitable ties to Gun Industry

Hollywod Reporter ^ | December 16, 2016 | By Gary Baum & Scott Johnson

[Brad from Tennessee]

The NRA and the entertainment industry interact publicly as mortal enemies. But as the number of weapons shown in movies and TV steadily increases — and stars like Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie make fortunes wielding guns onscreen — a co-dependence that keeps both churning is revealed: “making the liberal bias a lot of money”

BURNISHED BY THE LOW LIGHT OF GLASS-WALLED DISPLAYS, THEY seem like ancient artifacts, but the objects here are beloved contemporary icons. One case houses the massive Smith & Wesson Model 29 wielded by Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" Callahan in the 1973 film Magnum Force. In another rests the Beretta 92F used by Bruce Willis in Die Hard. All the great shoot-'em-up classics — The Bourne Identity, Pulp Fiction, The Wild Bunch — are here. This exhibit, celebrating cinema, isn't in Hollywood; it's thousands of miles away, in a museum at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association in Fairfax, Va.

The NRA is proud of its "Hollywood Guns" exhibit. It's the most popular of more than a dozen rooms and multiple showcases, which include the gun that Theodore Roosevelt took on a 1913 expedition to the Amazon. The shiny allure of the Hollywood gun room comes last in the museum tour — "like a reward," says an NRA official. . .

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Stembridge Gun Rentals

http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/506928_Whatever_happened_to_Stembridge_Gun_Rentals_.html

[vetvetdoug]

My favorite was the flintlock pistol that the Predator tossed at the actor at the end of the second movie.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Thanks for the link. I was unaware of this website. If Stembridge was still in business they'd have to add another warehouse just to deal with Quentin Tarantino.

[wally_bert]

One of mine.

[Rastus]

My favorite is the gun that the George Reeves Superman ducked, because imaginary bullets are soft but a prop gun is hard.

[knighthawk]

For the fans, an entire database of all guns in movies:
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page

One of the best is Death Wish 3, the Wildey Hunter!
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Death_Wish_3#Wildey_Hunter

[headstamp 2]

There is a great video done by Dillon Precision (1990’s), (Machine Gun Magic) that features the inside of Stembridge. Literally thousands of guns of all types on racks. Truly amazing.

They also manufactured guns for movies like the original Terminator and such.

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https://www.dillonprecision.com/machine-gun-magic-dvd-format_8_11_23960.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0CKq0xRu2k

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I was watching some old western from the 1950s in which the cavalry attack Indians. In the melee, the Springfield rifle bends double, then springs back straight. It was rubber.

[sig226]

Wooden and rubber guns were much cheaper and easier to maintain than the real ones. They also can’t fire, which is admirable on a set with a large group of actors and crew.