The Ruger Mini 14 on film

d0d39b1ea4a972d07244a54c1dc9801e.jpg

mrt_gun-2-jpg.37895
 
enefgee said:
It wasn't just import paperwork - for those of us poor schleps that slavishly waited for our green slips to arrive, for restricteds, you'll be happy to know that the fine folks in Ottawa were also shredding their copies of the registration slips. That's right, the only copy of the registration slip in existence was the one in your pistol case, that's why everyone had to re-register restricteds when the RPAL/registry came in - no one knew you had a pistol, so they had to build a database ASAP. They started out keeping paper records, but after a while there was too much paper, so when they sent out the green slip, the rest got dropped in a shredder.
I believe that the report you're referring to was the Coroner's Inquest report, I haven't read it in a while - it concluded that it didn't matter what kind of gun Gamil Gharbi used, since he had time to continue and ammo left in his pockets when he killed himself. The police never tried to enter the building and basically, he ran out of potential victims before they entered. You see a lot about guns with the grave dancing crowd, and very little indeed about faulty police response.
Click to expand...

Partially correct.
The RCMP kept the old registry in the old computerized system. So they didn't need the paper copies as they already had the digital one. The re-registering was just a formality to get the guns they know and hopefully the ones they don't know into the new system.
And yes, I have seen printouts of firearms from the old restricted registry in the last few years from the RCMP.

I'm assuming they took their time to convert the old restricted registry from whatever archaic programing language to modern formats. That's my theory.
 
Karnage said:
Well, technically those are AC223's.

Yes I'm that guy in the movie theatre.
Click to expand...

Nope.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/A-Team,_The_-_Season_2

When the show began its full run in 1984, the producers decided not to have the team use different weapons every week, primarily due to budget concerns. Beginning with its second season, the A-Team favored the Ruger Mini-14 with a factory folding stock in Stainless steel. Contrary to popular belief, these were not the fully automatic Ruger AC556 rifles, but the semiauto-only Ruger Mini 14 with folding stocks. Close examination of the show reveals that the actors are pulling the triggers quickly and only a few spent brass casing as flying out, despite the sound effects of full auto fire. Also the cuts in editing, showing bullet squibs and 'dust hits' against the ground and buildings, created the illusion of full auto firing Ruger rifles. Furthermore, the rifles have plain barrels fitted with flash hiders, not the 'Government Barrel' of AC556s that feature flash-hider and bayonet lug. Since Americans had not yet been exposed to 'assault weapon bans' being that this was the mid 1980s, the Title I classified Ruger rifles were easy to transport across state and local lines with no paperwork hassles. The rifles were actually purchased for the show and were kept on permanent storage in the show's props containers during the show's run.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom