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Ruger Mini-14

2022-05-24T04:48:23Z

Death by Chains: /* Ruger Mini-14 in Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup Stock */

[[Image:Ruger-Mini-14.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Blued Ruger Mini-14 Standard Model Semiautomatic Rifle (Pre-2005) with 30 round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]

'''The Ruger Mini-14/AC556 can be seen in the following movies and television series used by the following actors:'''

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=Ruger Mini-14=
[[Image:RugerMini14NewVer.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Current production Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle"; inline wooden stock and blued finish with 5-round magazine - 5.56x45mm. This is the production model '''after 2005''' with changes to the receiver, the front sight placement and rear sight.]]
[[Image:Mini14f.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless steel Ruger Mini-14 F with folding stock and 30-round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Ruger Mini-14 GB.jpg|thumb|502px|right|Ruger Mini-14 GB ("Government Barrel") - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Mini14gb-f.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Ruger Mini-14 GB-F ("Government Barrel, Folding Stock") - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Mini14_GB_Choate_Folding_stock.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Mini-14 GB in an Aftermarket Choate Folding Stock, as used by the Military of Bermuda - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Ruger Mini-14 black.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Black Ruger Mini-14 with 20-round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]
The '''Ruger Mini-14''' is a semi-automatic rifle designed and manufactured by [[Ruger]]. It is one of the primary competitors to the [[AR-15]]-style rifle on the civilian market. Introduced in 1973, the Mini-14 is so named because of its resemblance to the [[M14 Rifle|M14 Battle Rifle]]. Despite this, it is more mechanically similar to the [[M1 Garand]] with its self-cleaning, fixed-piston gas system. In 2003, the Mini-14 was upgraded with a number of functional and cost-saving features and thereafter, the Mini-14 name became used to describe a family of weapons rather than a sole rifle design.

The current basic model of the Mini-14 is known as the Ranch Rifle, featuring either wood or synthetic furniture, a blued or stainless steel receiver, and an 18.5" barrel, along with a detachable scope mount.

==Specifications==
(1973 - Present)

* '''Type:''' Carbine

* '''Caliber:''' 5.56x45mm NATO

* '''Weight:''' {{convert|kg|2.9}}

* '''Length:''' {{convert|mm|946}}

* '''Barrel length:''' {{convert|mm|409}} - {{convert|mm|559}}

* '''Feed System:''' 5, 10, 20, or 30 round box magazines

* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto ''(See note above regarding full-auto)''

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===Film===
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|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[Crime Busters]]'' || || A security guard || || 1977
|-
| ''[[The Domino Principle]]'' || || A sniper; a prison guard || || 1977
|-
| ''[[The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair]]'' |||| UNCLE agents || || 1983
|-
| ''[[The Survivors]]''||||survivalist student||stainless steel||1983
|-
|''[[Red Dawn (1984)|Red Dawn]]''||||||carried by resistance member||1984
|-
| ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' || [[Michael Douglas]] || Jack Colton || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' || || Zolo's men || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' || || Ira's Men || || 1984
|-
|''[[The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)]]'' || || Mexican soldiers || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Exterminator 2]]'' || [[Robert Ginty]] || John Eastland || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Exterminator 2]]'' || || X's thugs || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Code of Silence]]'' || || Hitman || || 1985
|-
| ''[[Commando]]'' || || Arius' men || Mini-14 GB, stainless steel models & blued models || 1985
|-
| ''[[Death Wish 3]]'' || || Gang Members || Folding stocks and aftermarket stocks|| 1985
|-
| ''[[Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]'' || [[Angry Anderson]] || Ironbar || underfolding stock || 1985
|-
| ''[[The Annihilators]]'' || || A thug || Stainless || 1985
|-
| ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'' || [[Terry Gill]] || Duffy || || 1986
|-
| ''[[The Fugitives]]'' || || French gendarmes || || 1986
|-
| ''[[Death Wish 4]]'' || [[Charles Bronson]] || Paul || Folding stock, mounted with a scope and suppressor|| 1987
|-
| ''[[Loner, The (Le Solitaire)|The Loner]]''|| || French police officers || || 1987
|-
| ''[[Crocodile Dundee II]]'' || [[Juan Fernández]] || Miguel || Chromed parts || 1988
|-
| ''[[Married to the Mob]]'' || || F.B.I. Agent || Folding stock and pistol grip || 1988
|-
|''[[Dead Heat]]''||||L.A.P.D. SWAT||||1988
|-
| ''[[Let Sleeping Cops Lie (Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort)]]'' || || French Gendarmerie || Mini-14 || 1988
|-
|''[[Colors]]''||[[Gerardo Mejía]]||Bird||||1988
|-
| ''[[True Believer]]'' || || Prison guards || || 1989
|-
| ''[[An Innocent Man]]'' || || Prison Guards || || 1989
|-
| ''[[Believed Violent (Présumé dangereux)]]'' || || A police sniper || With folding stock and sniper scope || 1990
|-
| ''[[Nothing But Trouble]]'' || [[Valri Bromfield]] || Miss Purdah || Mini-14 GB Stainless W/ Scope || 1991
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas]]'' || [[Rod Steiger]] || Gordon Kahl || || 1991
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas]]'' || [[Christopher Rich]] || Scott Faul || With folding stock || 1991
|-
|''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]''|| [[Christopher Lambert]] || Connor Macleod || ||1991
|-
|''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]''|| ||General Katana's men|| ||1991
|-
| ''[[Operation Corned Beef (L'opération Corned Beef)|Operation Corned Beef]]'' || || French gendarmes || || 1991
|-
| ''[[Beyond the Law]]'' || || || Stainless Steel, Folding Stock || 1992
|-
| ''[[Snake Eater III: His Law]]'' || || Bikers || Mini-14 || 1992
|-
| ''[[Trouble Bound]]'' || || Mobster || || 1993
|-
| ''[[Carnosaur]]'' || [[Raphael Sbarge]] || 'Doc' Smith || Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle" || 1993
|-
| ''[[Carnosaur]]'' || [[Jennifer Runyon]] || Ann 'Thrush' || Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle" || 1993
|-
| ''[[Blood In, Blood Out]]'' || [[Thomas F. Wilson]] || McCann || || 1993
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco]]'' || || Branch Davidian cultists || || 1993
|-
| ''[[Rage and Honor II]]'' || || Indonesian police || || 1993
|-
| ''[[Léon (The Professional)]]'' || || NYPD ESU officers || Mini-14 GB-F || 1994
|-
| ''[[Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, The| The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult]]'' || || Postal carrier || || 1994
|-
| rowspan=3|''[[Cyber Tracker]]'' || [[Jim Maniaci]] || The Tracker || rowspan=2|With aftermarket folding stock and custom muzzle brake || rowspan=3|1994
|-
| [[Stacie Foster]] || Connie Griffith
|-
| || || standard Mini-14, seen in armory
|-
| ''[[Tommy Boy]]'' || [[Rob Lowe]] || Paul Barish || || 1995
|-
| ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' || || Redfoot's henchmen || Mini-14 GB-F, optics mounted || 1995
|-
| ''[[Escape from LA]]'' || || Gang member || || 1996
|-
| ''[[ The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'' || [[Geena Davis]] || Charlene Elizabeth "Charly" Baltimore || Stainless variant with black synthetic stock, scope, and custom stainless muzzle brake, heat shield/barrel shroud || 1996
|-
| ''[[Ransom]]'' || || NYPD ESU officer || || 1996
|-
| ''[[Midnight Heat]]'' || || Payne's henchman || Stainless steel, folding stock, sniper scope || 1996
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Original Gangstas]]'' || [[Richard Roundtree]] || Slick || With folding stock || rowspan=2|1996
|-
| || A gang member || GB, with folding stock
|-
| ''[[Breakdown]]'' || [[M.C. Gainey]] || Earl || || 1997
|-
|rowspan=3| ''[[The Ultimate Weapon]]'' || [[Hulk Hogan]] || Ben Cutter || rowspan=2| Stainless steel with folding stock || rowspan=3| 1998
|-
| [[Carl Marotte]] || Vince Dean
|-
| || Gunrunners ||
|-
| ''[[Light It Up]]'' || [[Daren Flam]] || NYPD ESU officer || With laser pointer || 1999
|-
| ''[[Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai]]'' || [[Forest Whitaker]] || Ghost Dog || Folding stock, suppressor, and scope attached || 1999
|-
| ''[[Boondock Saints]]'' || || Prison Guard || Choate folding stock || 1999
|-
| ''[[Jane Doe]]'' || [[Christina Cox]] || Peter || with optical sieght || 2001
|-
| ''[[Jane Doe]]'' || [[Teri Hatcher]] || Jane Doe || with optical sieght || 2001
|-
| ''[[Heist (2001)|Heist]]'' || || Mickey's bodyguard || folding stock || 2001
|-
| ''[[Equilibrium]]'' || || Armored Sweeper || Synthetic furniture || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[James DeBello]] || Bert || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[Cerina Vincent]] || Marcy || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[Joey Kern]] || Jeff || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[Rider Strong]] || Paul || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Outside the Law (2002)|Outside the Law]]'' || Charles Strong || Ken Crowley || Custom with short barrel and folding stock || 2002
|-
| ''[[Christmas Rush]]'' || [[Bernard Browne]] || Wayne || With folding stock || 2002
|-
| ''[[Once upon a time in Mexico]]'' || [[Antonio Banderas]] || El Mariachi || || 2003
|-
| ''[[Once upon a time in Mexico]]'' || || Barrilo's men || || 2003
|-
| ''[[Curse of the Komodo]]'' || [[Melissa Brasselle]] || Tiffany || Stainless, Butler Creek™ aftermarket synthetic folding stock with pistol grip, scoped, and stainless barrel shroud and muzzle brake || 2004
|-
| ''[[District B13]]'' || Various actors || Taha's henchmen || Standard factory configuration || 2004
|-
| ''[[Corsican File, The (L'enquête Corse)|The Corsican File (L'enquête Corse)]]'' || || RG member, Corsican terrorist || with optical sieght || 2004
|-
| ''[[Employee of the Month (2004)|Employee of the Month]] || || bank robber || stainless with black plastic stock || 2004
|-
| ''[[Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada]]'' || Various actors || Mexican Ranchers || || 2005
|-
| ''[[Visitation, The|The Visitation]]'' || [[Joe Unger]] || Matt Kiley || Mini-14 GB w/ folding stock || 2006
|-
| ''[[Delta Farce]]'' || || Carlo Santana's men|| || 2007
|-
| ''[[We Own the Night]]'' || || NYPD ESU officers || || 2007
|-
|''[[We Own the Night]]''||[[Antoni Corone]]||Lieutenant Michael Solo||||2007
|-
| ''[[Elite Squad]]'' || || Drug dealers || || 2007
|-
| ''[[Mesrine: Killer Instinct]]'' || || Prison guard riflemen || || 2008
|-
|''[[Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1]]''||||French police||||2008
|-
| ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' || || vigilante Batman copycat || || 2008
|-
| ''[[Felon]]'' || [[Harold Perrineau]] || Lt. Bill Jackson || || 2008
|-
| ''[[The American]]'' || [[George Clooney]] || Jack || Mini-14 (Pre-2005 style) with factory folding Stock and hand-made suppressor || 2010
|-
| ''[[The A-Team (2010)|The A-Team]]'' || [[Liam Neeson]] || Hannibal || || 2010
|-
| ''[[Tomorrow, When the War Began]]'' || ||Australian resistance fighters|| || 2010
|-
| ''[[Red State]]'' ||||||seen on wall|| 2011
|-
| ''[[A Gang Story (Les Lyonnais)]]'' ||||Robbers||With Choate folding stock and extended magazine|| 2011
|-
| ''[[Casa de mi Padre]]'' || || Henchman || folding stock || 2012
|-
| ''[[Host, The (2013)|The Host (2013)]]'' || || Resistance member ||pre-2005 model || 2013
|-
| ''[[Frozen Ground, The|The Frozen Ground]]''|| [[John Cusack]] || Robert Hansen || MINI-14 GB with folding stock and sniper scope || 2013
|-
| rowspan=3 | ''[[Blue Ruin]]''|| [[Macon Blair]] || Dwight || rowspan=3 | Mini-14 GB || rowspan=3 | 2013
|-
| [[Devin Ratray]] || Ben
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| [[Kevin Kolack]] || Teddy
|-
|''[[Bright]]''||||gang member||||2017
|-
| ''[[Hostage X]]'' || [[Stefanie Joosten]] || The Agent || Mini-14 GB with folding stock and sniper scope || 2017
|-
|''[[Logan (2017)|Logan]]''||[[Lennie Loftin]]||Jackson||||2017
|-
| rowspan=4|''[[Hold the Dark]]'' || [[Riley Keough]] || Medora Slone || rowspan=2|With folding stock || rowspan=4|2018
|-
| [[Jeffrey Wright]] || Russell Core
|-
| Julian Black Antelope || Cheeon || rowspan=2|
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| || Policeman
|-
|''[[22 July]]''||Anders Danielsen Lie||Anders Behring Breivik||||2018
|-
|''[[Black Widow (2021)|Black Widow]]''||[[David Harbour]]||Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian||scoped; pre and post-2005 versions (continuity error)||2021
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===Television===
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|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Show Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note / Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| rowspan=3| ''[[A-Team, The|The A-Team]]'' || [[George Peppard]] || Hannibal Smith || || rowspan=3| 1983 - 1988
|-
| [[Dirk Benedict]] || Templeton "Faceman" Peck ||
|-
| [[Dwight Schultz]] || "Howling Mad" Murdock ||
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 4|Bergerac]]'' || [[Lorcan Cranitch]] || A police sniper || With sniper scope and foregrip; "Avenge O Lord" (S04E09) || 1985
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 5|Bergerac]]'' || || Police snipers || With sniper scope; "The Deadly Virus" (S05E05) || 1987
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 8|Bergerac]]'' || || Police snipers || With sniper scope; "Diplomatic Incident" (S08E10) || 1990
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 9|Bergerac]]'' || || Police snipers || With sniper scope; "My Friend Charlie" (S09E05) || 1991
|-
| ''[[Lady Cop (Die Kommissarin) - Season 2]]'' || [[Vitus Zeplichal]] || Paul Boeder || "Familienfest" (S02E07) || 1995
|-
| rowspan=4| ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' || [[Morgan Weisser]] || Lt. Nathan West || rowspan=4| Mocked up as the 'M590 Assault Rifle' (heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell) || rowspan=4| 1995 - 1996
|-
| [[Kristen Cloke]] || Captain Shane Vansen
|-
| [[Rodney Rowland]] || Lt. Cooper Hawkes
|-
| Various actors || US Marines
|-
| ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' || Various actors || Police honor guard ||"Lost Son", black synthetic stocks and chromed metal parts || 2002 - 2012
|-
| ''[[24]]'' || [[Kiefer Sutherland]] || Jack Bauer || "7 p.m.-8 p.m." || 2005
|-
|''[[NCIS - Season 3|NCIS]]''||[[Todd Allen]]||James Landis||"Ravenous" (S3E17)||2006
|-
|''[[NCIS - Season 3|NCIS]]''||[[Mark Harmon]]||Gibbs||"Ravenous" (S3E17)||2006
|-
| ''[[Sea Patrol]]'' || || || || 2007 -
|-
| ''[[Monk]]''|| [[Titus Welliver]] || Daniel Reese || "Mr. Monk's Other Brother" || 2008
|-
| rowspan=2| ''[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' || [[Shane Edelman]] || Matt Murch || || rowspan=2| 2008 - 2009
|-
| [[Dean Winters]] || Charley Dixon ||
|-
| rowspan=2| ''[[Prison Break - Season 4]]'' || || Assasssin || rowspan=2| w/ scope and 20-round magazine || rowspan=2| 2009
|-
| [[Dominic Purcell]] || Lincoln Burrows
|-
| ''[[Justified - Season 1]]'' || ||One of the Pork Brothers||"Fire in the Hole" (S1E01)|| 2010
|-
| ''[[Longmire - Season 1]]'' || || Hunter || "The Cancer" (S1E04) || 2012
|-
| ''[[The Last Ship - Season 2|The Last Ship]]'' |||| Thorwald's men ||"Fight the Ship" (S2E02) || 2015
|-
| ''[[Murder in the First]]|| || Cascade's men || "State of the Union" (S2E07) || 2015
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[The Walking Dead - Season 6]]'' || Unknowns || Savior members || GB Model; "Not Tomorrow Yet" (S6E12), "East" (S6E15) || rowspan=2|2016
|-
| [[Melissa McBride]] || Carol Peletier || "Last Day on Earth" (S6E16)
|-
| rowspan=8|''[[The Walking Dead - Season 7]]'' || Unknown || Saviors member || "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" (S7E01) || rowspan=8|2016-2017
|-
| [[Daniel Newman]] || Daniel || "The Well" (S7E02)
|-
| [[Melissa McBride]] || Carol Peletier || "The Well" (S7E02), "Rock in the Road" (S7E09), "Bury Me Here" (S7E13)
|-
| [[Jordan Woods-Robinson]] || Eric Raleigh || GB Model; "Something They Need" (S7E15), "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| [[Dahlia Legault]] || Francine || Stainless Steel Model; "Something They Need" (S7E15), "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| Unknown || Scavengers member || GB Model; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| [[Chandler Riggs]] || Carl Grimes || GB Model; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| [[Karen Ceesay]] || Bertie || GB Model; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
|''[[Stranger Things - Season 2|Stranger Things]]''||||CPD Police||"Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister" (S2E07)||2017
|-
|''[[True Detective - Season 3|True Detective]]'' ||[[Michael Greyeyes]]||Brett Woodward||||2019
|-
|}

===Video Games===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Fallout Tactics]]''||Ruger AC556F||w/ folding stock and reflex scope||||2001
|-
|''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]''||Kruger||GB-F model||||2002
|-
|''[[Condemned: Criminal Origins]]''||"Rifle" ||with 10-round mag and shortened barrel || semi-auto only || 2005
|-
|''[[Kane and Lynch: Dead Men]]''|| || Synthetic furniture || ||2007
|-
|''[[Cross Fire (2007 VG)|Cross Fire]]''||"Ruger MINI-14" ||extended magazine|| ||2007
|-
|''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' || Hunting Rifle || w/ scope and tactical flaslight || pre-2005 model ||2008
|-
| ''[[7.62 High Calibre]]'' || || ||w/ various attachments|| 2008
|-
|''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]''|| Hunting Rifle || w/ scope, tactical flashlight and optional laser sight|| ||2009
|-
| ''[[Jagged Alliance: Back in Action]]''||Mini14||||||2012
|-
|''[[State of Decay]]''||"Mini 14" || ||10-rounded magazine ||2013
|-
| ''[[World of Guns: Gun Disassembly]]'' || Ruger Mini-14 || ||5-round magazine || 2014
|-
| ''[[Escape from Tarkov]]''|||||| seen on the Mechanic art||2018
|-
|}
 

=Ruger AC556=
[[Image:RugerAC556.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Ruger AC556 Carbine - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:RugerAC556 SS.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Ruger AC556 Carbine with Full Stock - 5.56x45mm]]
[[File:RugerAC556 ss Folder.jpg |thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Ruger AC556 Carbine with Factory Folder Stock - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:RugerAC556folder.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Ruger AC556K with 20-round magazine 5.56x45mm]]

The '''Ruger AC556''' is the fully automatic version of the Mini-14 with a distinctive barrel and bayonet lug. These models come with either a pistol grip and side-folding stock or the standard semi-pistol grip fixed stock. Ruger also offers the Mini-14 GB ("Government Barrel" Model) which is a semi-automatic only version of the AC556 originally intended for military, law enforcement, and private security sales. However, many examples of the Mini-14 GB have also entered the civilian market. The full-auto AC556 has a distinctive fire mode selector switch on the back of the receiver that the semi-auto Mini-14 does not.

Please note that many times, a semi-auto only Mini-14 GB rifle is used to impersonate a full auto AC556, especially when mounted into a factory folding stock. Unless the rifle fires full auto, or one can clearly see the selector switch (which the Mini-14 doesn't have), it will be identified as a Mini-14 until its pedigree as an AC556 can be verified.
==Specifications==
(1980 - 1999)

* '''Type:''' Assault Rifle

* '''Caliber:''' 5.56x45mm NATO

* '''Weight:''' {{convert|kg|2.9}}

* '''Length:''' {{convert|mm|603}} (stock folded), {{convert|mm|851}} (stock extended)

* '''Barrel length:'''{{convert|mm|330}}

* '''Feed System:''' 5, 10, 20 or 30 rounds detachable box magazine

* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto/Burst-3/Full-Auto

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===Film===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
|''[[The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)]]'' || || Norbert || AC556K || 1984
|-
|''[[The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)]]'' || || French police || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Hold-Up]]'' || || Montreal police || || 1985
|-
| ''[[Cobra]]'' || || Night Slasher gangmembers ||AC556K || 1986
|-
| ''[[The Fugitives]]'' || || French gendarmes || || 1986
|-
| ''[[Fatal Beauty]]''|| [[Mike Jolly]] || Earl Skinner || AC556K || 1987
|-
| ''[[Loner, The (Le Solitaire)|The Loner]]''|| || French police officers || AC556 || 1987
|-
| ''[[Rage of Honor]]'' || [[Sho Kosugi]] || Shiro Tanaka || AC556K || 1987
|-
| ''[[Rage of Honor]]'' || || Various henchmen || AC556K || 1987
|-
| ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' || [[Michael Palin]] || Ken || scoped AC556 with suppressor || 1988
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders]]'' || [[David Soul]] || Michael Platt || AC-556K || 1988
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders]]'' || || Paramilitary group || AC-556K || 1988
|-
| ''[[Let Sleeping Cops Lie (Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort)]]'' || [[Michel Serrault]] || Commissaire Scatti || AC556K || 1988
|-
| ''[[Snake Eater]]'' || [[Lorenzo Lamas]] || "Soldier" Jack Kelly || AC556 || 1989
|-
| ''[[Predator 2]]'' || || Jamaican Drug Gang || AC556K || 1990
|-
| ''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]'' || || Shield Corporation guards || AC556 || 1991
|-
| ''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]'' || [[Christopher Lambert]] || Connor MacLeod || AC556 || 1991
|-
| ''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]'' || [[Virginia Madsen]] || Louise Marcus || AC556 || 1991
|-
| ''[[Class of 1999]]'' || || || ||1990
|-
| ''[[Lethal Weapon 3]]'' || || Travis' henchmen || AC556 || 1992
|-
| ''[[Freejack]]'' || || Mercenaries || || 1992
|-
| ''[[Escape from LA]]'' || [[Kurt Russell]] || Snake Plissken || AC556 stainless steel variant with a polymer Choate Stock and mounted scope || 1996
|-
| ''[[Escape from LA]]'' || [[George Corraface]] || Cuervo Jones || AC556 stainless steel variant with a polymer Choate Stock and mounted scope || 1996
|-
| ''[[Broken Arrow]]'' || [[John Travolta]] || Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins || Ruger AC-556K || 1996
|-
| ''[[Face/Off]]'' || || Prison guards || AC556 || 1997
|-
| ''[[Face/Off]]'' || [[Chris Bauer]] || Ivan Dubov || AC556 || 1997
|-
| ''[[Hard Rain]]'' || [[Minnie Driver]] || Karen || AC556 || 1998
|-
| ''[[Hard Rain]]'' || || Police officers and criminals || AC556 || 1998
|-
|''[[Formula 51]]''||[[Emily Mortimer]]||Dakota||||2001
|-
| ''[[S.W.A.T. (2003)| S.W.A.T. (2003)]]'' || || Gang members || AC556K || 2003
|-
| ''[[New Police Story]]'' || || Fire || AC556F || 2004
|-
| ''[[District B13]]'' || || Taha's henchman || Stainless AC556-SS, black synthetic stock || 2004
|-
| ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'' || || refugee || stainless, folding stock || 2009
|-
| ''[[Watchmen]]'' || || NYPD ESU officers || AC556 || 2009
|-
| ''[[A Gang Story (Les Lyonnais)]]'' || || Robber || AC556K || 2011
|-
|}

===Television===
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|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Show Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="175"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Note / Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="75"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| rowspan=3| ''[[Miami Vice - Season 1]]''||[[Jim Zubiena]]|| Ludovici Armstrong || AC556K with folding stock / "The Hit List" || rowspan=3| 1984 - 1985
|-
| Various actors || SRT members || AC556 with folding stock / "Cool Runnin"
|-
| Various actors || SRT members ||AC556 with full stock / "The Maze"
|-
| rowspan=4| ''[[The X-Files - Season 7]]'' || [[David Duchovny]] || FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder || rowspan=4| Mocked up as the 'M590 Assault Rifle' (heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell) / "First Person Shooter" (S7E13) || rowspan=4| 2000
|-
| [[Gillian Anderson]] || FBI Special Agent Dana Scully
|-
| [[Krista Allen]] || Maitreya
|-
| Billy Ray Gallion || 'Retro'
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || || Bandit || AC556K with folding stock / "Our Mrs. Reynolds" (S1E06) || 2002
|-
|}

=== Video Games ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Splinter Cell Chaos Theory]]''|| || || AC556 || 2005
|-
|''[[Cross Fire (2007 VG)|Cross Fire]]''||"Ruger AC-556" ||with SCAR CQB stock|| ||2007
|-
| ''[[Insurgency (2014)|Insurgency]]'' || || w/ various attachments || AC556 With synthetic furniture || 2014
|-
| ''[[Playerunknown's Battlegrounds]]'' || Mini 14 || || w/ various attachments || 2017
|-
|}
 

=Ruger Mini-14 in Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup Stock=
[[Image:RugerMuzzelite.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Ruger Mini-14 in a Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock - 5.56x45mm]]
[[File:Ruger Mini 14 Muzzelite Bullpup scope mount.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Ruger Mini-14 in a Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock with a scope mount - 5.56x45mm]]
[[File:Ruger Mini 14 Muzzelite Bullpup stainless flash hider.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Ruger Mini-14 in a Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock with 4.5 inch flash hider - 5.56x45mm]]

The '''Muzzelite MZ14''' is a polymer rifle stock that was designed to convert the Ruger Mini-14/AC556 into a compact bullpup carbine. Contrary to some urban legends, these were never seriously looked at as an alternative weapon for law enforcement. The trigger pull is shoddy, too long, and the bullpup itself is back heavy. Most police departments already had full-auto AC556 rifles or semi-auto Rugers (as well as [[AR-15]]s) if they needed a 5.56x45mm assault rifle. It is a simple vacuformed clamshell body that uses a rod to activate the trigger. The Muzzelite stock was sold in configurations that could hold the Ruger Mini-14, the [[Ruger 10/22]], and the [[Marlin Camp Carbine-9|Marlin Camp Carbine]] in 9x19mm, though the only version used in most movies or television shows were the Ruger Mini-14 version. In films like ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'', the AC556 full-auto carbine with a shorter barrel was used inside this bullpup stock.

The Muzzelite stock enclosed Ruger Mini-14 has been used in countless B-Movies and television shows as a result of its futuristic appearance. Films like ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' utilized customized futuristic guns based on the Ruger Mini inside of a Muzzelite stock. These were preferred by the prop makers at Hollywood's Hand Prop Room, since the futuristic shape of the Muzzelite stock made it easier to create unusual science fiction rifles, but also the fact that it expands the appearance potential of the Ruger Mini 14, known in the industry as "The Jamless Wonder" as the Mini-14 never jams or stovepipes using movie blanks, something that cannot be said of any of the other common 5.56x45mm weapons used in films.

===Film===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="275"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="175"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[Guns (1990)|Guns]]'' || [[Erik Estrada]] || Juan Degas || with faux missile launcher, as "Chinese assault rifle Type 3445A"|| 1990
|-
| ''[[Guns (1990)|Guns]]'' || || various thugs || with faux missile launcher, as "Chinese assault rifle Type 3445A"|| 1990
|-
| ''[[Prayer of the Rollerboys]]'' || || various Rollerboys || "Naboru" assault rifles (modified AC556s) || 1990
|-
| ''[[Predator 2]]'' || Extra actor || Special Agent Peter Keyes' ([[Gary Busey]]'s) team member || dual wielded || 1990
|-
| ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] || Douglas Quaid || Foresight removed, shortened barrels , and fitted with a small tactical scope on the carrying handle section || 1990
|-
| ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || [[Rachel Ticotin]] || Melina || Foresight removed, shortened barrels , and fitted with a small tactical scope on the carrying handle section || 1990
|-
| ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || Various actors || Mars Federal Colony troops || Foresight removed, shortened barrels , and fitted with a small tactical scope on the carrying handle section || 1990
|-
| ''[[Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection]]'' || Various actors || Ramon Cota's men || || 1990
|-
| ''[[Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection]]'' || Various actors || Delta Force commandos || || 1990
|-
| ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'' || Various actors || Resistance Troops || Some similarly configured to those from ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || 1991
|-
| ''[[Do or Die]]'' || [[Paul Hospodar]] || Duke || || 1991
|-
| ''[[Freejack]]'' || || Bonejackers || || 1992
|-
| ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' || [[Curtis Taylor]], Various actors || Rehab #1, OCP Rehabilitation Officers || tactical flash light mounted on rail || 1993
|-
| ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' || Various actors || 'Splatterpunks' gang members || tactical flash light mounted on rail || 1993
|-
| ''[[On Deadly Ground]]'' || || MacGruder's henchman || || 1994
|-
| ''[[Tank Girl]]'' || [[Lori Petty]] || Tank Girl/Rebecca || || 1995
|-
| ''[[Tank Girl]]'' || Various actors || Water and Power agents || modified with scopes and vertical foregrips|| 1995
|-
| ''[[Digital Man]]'' || || Terrorists, MP personnel || || 1995
|-
| ''[[Midnight Man]]'' || || Cambodian and Russian mobsters || || 1995
|-
| ''[[Midnight Heat]]'' || [[Brian Bosworth]] || Wayne Garret || With barrel shroud and night vision device || 1996
|-
| ''[[Midnight Heat]]'' || || Payne's henchmen || With barrel shroud and night vision device || 1996
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Debbe Dunning]] || Priv. Delores Costello || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Ladd York]] || Lucky || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Brent Jasmer]] || SSgt. Books Malloy || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Jessica Collins]] || Dr. Tina Reeves || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Rick Peters]] || Mooch || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Miguel A. Núñez Jr.]] || Sticks || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Geoff Meed]] || Kowalski || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Casper Van Dien]] || Johnny Rico || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Jake Busey]] || Ace Levy || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Dina Meyer]] || Dizzy Flores || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Michael Ironside]] || Lt. Jean Rasczak || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Carbine]]", also uses a Sniper Rifle variant || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Patrick Muldoon]] || Zander Barcalow|| Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Carbine]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Denise Richards]] || Carmen Ibanez || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Carbine]]" || 1997
|-
| [[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Seth Gilliam]] || Pt. Sugar Watkins || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Sniper Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || Various actors || Mobile Infantry soldiers || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Phantoms]]'' || Various actors || Biological Warfare Unit soldiers || Fitted with vertical grips, night-vision scopes, and laser sights; same weapons used in ''[[Tank Girl]]'' || 1997
|-
| ''[[Belly]]'' || || Jamaicans || With red dot sights || 1998
|-
| ''[[K-911]]'' || || || Seen in Phil Cage's armory || 1999
|-
| ''[[Tremors 3: Back to Perfection]]'' || [[Michael Gross]] || Burt Gummer || || 2001
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="275"|'''Show Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="175"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="270"|'''Note / Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="80"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| ''[[Space Rangers]]'' || Various actors || pace Rangers || With fake grenade launcher, and obsolete gas tube laser site as an optical site || 1993
|-
| ''[[seaQuest DSV]]'' || [[Dustin Nguyen]] || Chief William Shan || flash suppressor, flashlight attachment, custom made under barrel grenade launcher || 1993 - 1996
|-
| ''[[seaQuest DSV]]'' || Various actors || UEO Forces || flash suppressor, flashlight attachment, custom made under barrel grenade launcher || 1993 - 1996
|-
| ''[[The X-Files]]'' || Various actors || Military/Black-ops personnel || "Fallen Angel" (S1E09), "Unrequited" (S4E16), other episodes || 1993 - 1997
|-
| ''[[seaQuest 2032]]'' || Various actors || Macronesian Alliance || Ruger removed and the clamshell covers were modified and used as Pulse Rifles by the Macronesian Alliance || 1996
|-
| ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' || [[Robert Beltran]] || Chakotay || with and without tactical flashlights mounted on the carry handle / "Nemesis"|| Sept 24, 1997
|-
| ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' || Various actors || Vori soldiers || with and without tactical flashlights mounted on the carry handle / "Nemesis" || Sept 24, 1997
|-
| ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' || Background || Initiative commando ||with aftermarket flash hider / "The Initiative (S4E07)" || Nov. 16, 1999
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || [[Gina Torres]] || Zoë Alleyne || continuity error, "Serenity" (S01E01) ||2002
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || || extra || "Serenity" (S1E01) ||2002
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || || Alliance troops|| "Serenity" (S1E01) ||2002
|-
| ''[[Missing (2012)]]'' || [[Nikola Navrátil]] || A blonde assassin || with a scope / "Ice Queen" (S01S03)|| 2012
|-
|}

=== Video Games ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Terminator: Resistance (VG)]]''||Plasma Rifle V-25 ||Modified to fire Phased Plasma, has a different external shell || Comes with a red dot sight or a computerized sight || 2019
|-
|}
 

=Ruger Mini Thirty=
[[Image:RugerMini30NewSS.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Ruger Mini Thirty new production model semiautomatic rifle with flush factory five round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:Ruger Mini-30 Tactical.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Ruger Mini Thirty Tactical with 20-round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
The '''Ruger Mini Thirty''' is a nearly identical rifle except chambered for 7.62x39mm. Except for the magazines, it would be hard to identify a Mini Thirty from a Mini-14 based on purely visual cues.

Introduced in 1987, the Mini Thirty was designed to take advantage of the large amounts of surplus 7.62x39mm ammunition entering the United States and being sold for low prices. Furthermore, the Mini Thirty was also marketed as a deer hunting rifle, as many American states prohibit deer hunting with rifles chambered in less than .243 caliber.

==Specifications==
(1987 - Present)

* '''Type:''' Carbine

* '''Caliber:''' 7.62x39mm

* '''Weight:''' {{convert|lbs|6.75}}

* '''Length:''' {{convert|in|37.5}}

* '''Barrel length:''' {{convert|in|18.5}}

* '''Feed System:''' 5 or 20 round box magazines

* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto ''(See note above regarding full-auto)''

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===Film===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[The Curse of the Komodo]]''|| [[Melissa Brasselle]] || Tiffany || Pre-2005 model Stainless Mini Thirty with folding stock and scope || 2004
|-
|}
===Video Games===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Max Payne 3]]''||Mini 30||Folding stock, synthetic furniture||||2012
|-
|''[[Uncharted 4: A Thief's End]]''||Mettler M-30||jungle camo synthetic furniture||Mini-30 Tactical||2016
|-
|''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''||Marksman Rifle||ACE stock || incorrect magazine || 2013
|}
 

=See Also=
* [[Ruger]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Ruger.

[[Category:Gun]]
[[Category:Rifle]]
[[Category:Assault Rifle]]
[[Category:Bullpup]]
[[Category:Carbine]]

Ruger Mini-14

2022-05-24T04:35:58Z

Death by Chains: /* Film */

[[Image:Ruger-Mini-14.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Blued Ruger Mini-14 Standard Model Semiautomatic Rifle (Pre-2005) with 30 round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]

'''The Ruger Mini-14/AC556 can be seen in the following movies and television series used by the following actors:'''

__TOC__ 
=Ruger Mini-14=
[[Image:RugerMini14NewVer.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Current production Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle"; inline wooden stock and blued finish with 5-round magazine - 5.56x45mm. This is the production model '''after 2005''' with changes to the receiver, the front sight placement and rear sight.]]
[[Image:Mini14f.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless steel Ruger Mini-14 F with folding stock and 30-round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Ruger Mini-14 GB.jpg|thumb|502px|right|Ruger Mini-14 GB ("Government Barrel") - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Mini14gb-f.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Ruger Mini-14 GB-F ("Government Barrel, Folding Stock") - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Mini14_GB_Choate_Folding_stock.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Mini-14 GB in an Aftermarket Choate Folding Stock, as used by the Military of Bermuda - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:Ruger Mini-14 black.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Black Ruger Mini-14 with 20-round magazine - 5.56x45mm]]
The '''Ruger Mini-14''' is a semi-automatic rifle designed and manufactured by [[Ruger]]. It is one of the primary competitors to the [[AR-15]]-style rifle on the civilian market. Introduced in 1973, the Mini-14 is so named because of its resemblance to the [[M14 Rifle|M14 Battle Rifle]]. Despite this, it is more mechanically similar to the [[M1 Garand]] with its self-cleaning, fixed-piston gas system. In 2003, the Mini-14 was upgraded with a number of functional and cost-saving features and thereafter, the Mini-14 name became used to describe a family of weapons rather than a sole rifle design.

The current basic model of the Mini-14 is known as the Ranch Rifle, featuring either wood or synthetic furniture, a blued or stainless steel receiver, and an 18.5" barrel, along with a detachable scope mount.

==Specifications==
(1973 - Present)

* '''Type:''' Carbine

* '''Caliber:''' 5.56x45mm NATO

* '''Weight:''' {{convert|kg|2.9}}

* '''Length:''' {{convert|mm|946}}

* '''Barrel length:''' {{convert|mm|409}} - {{convert|mm|559}}

* '''Feed System:''' 5, 10, 20, or 30 round box magazines

* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto ''(See note above regarding full-auto)''

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===Film===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[Crime Busters]]'' || || A security guard || || 1977
|-
| ''[[The Domino Principle]]'' || || A sniper; a prison guard || || 1977
|-
| ''[[The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair]]'' |||| UNCLE agents || || 1983
|-
| ''[[The Survivors]]''||||survivalist student||stainless steel||1983
|-
|''[[Red Dawn (1984)|Red Dawn]]''||||||carried by resistance member||1984
|-
| ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' || [[Michael Douglas]] || Jack Colton || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' || || Zolo's men || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' || || Ira's Men || || 1984
|-
|''[[The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)]]'' || || Mexican soldiers || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Exterminator 2]]'' || [[Robert Ginty]] || John Eastland || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Exterminator 2]]'' || || X's thugs || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Code of Silence]]'' || || Hitman || || 1985
|-
| ''[[Commando]]'' || || Arius' men || Mini-14 GB, stainless steel models & blued models || 1985
|-
| ''[[Death Wish 3]]'' || || Gang Members || Folding stocks and aftermarket stocks|| 1985
|-
| ''[[Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]'' || [[Angry Anderson]] || Ironbar || underfolding stock || 1985
|-
| ''[[The Annihilators]]'' || || A thug || Stainless || 1985
|-
| ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'' || [[Terry Gill]] || Duffy || || 1986
|-
| ''[[The Fugitives]]'' || || French gendarmes || || 1986
|-
| ''[[Death Wish 4]]'' || [[Charles Bronson]] || Paul || Folding stock, mounted with a scope and suppressor|| 1987
|-
| ''[[Loner, The (Le Solitaire)|The Loner]]''|| || French police officers || || 1987
|-
| ''[[Crocodile Dundee II]]'' || [[Juan Fernández]] || Miguel || Chromed parts || 1988
|-
| ''[[Married to the Mob]]'' || || F.B.I. Agent || Folding stock and pistol grip || 1988
|-
|''[[Dead Heat]]''||||L.A.P.D. SWAT||||1988
|-
| ''[[Let Sleeping Cops Lie (Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort)]]'' || || French Gendarmerie || Mini-14 || 1988
|-
|''[[Colors]]''||[[Gerardo Mejía]]||Bird||||1988
|-
| ''[[True Believer]]'' || || Prison guards || || 1989
|-
| ''[[An Innocent Man]]'' || || Prison Guards || || 1989
|-
| ''[[Believed Violent (Présumé dangereux)]]'' || || A police sniper || With folding stock and sniper scope || 1990
|-
| ''[[Nothing But Trouble]]'' || [[Valri Bromfield]] || Miss Purdah || Mini-14 GB Stainless W/ Scope || 1991
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas]]'' || [[Rod Steiger]] || Gordon Kahl || || 1991
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas]]'' || [[Christopher Rich]] || Scott Faul || With folding stock || 1991
|-
|''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]''|| [[Christopher Lambert]] || Connor Macleod || ||1991
|-
|''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]''|| ||General Katana's men|| ||1991
|-
| ''[[Operation Corned Beef (L'opération Corned Beef)|Operation Corned Beef]]'' || || French gendarmes || || 1991
|-
| ''[[Beyond the Law]]'' || || || Stainless Steel, Folding Stock || 1992
|-
| ''[[Snake Eater III: His Law]]'' || || Bikers || Mini-14 || 1992
|-
| ''[[Trouble Bound]]'' || || Mobster || || 1993
|-
| ''[[Carnosaur]]'' || [[Raphael Sbarge]] || 'Doc' Smith || Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle" || 1993
|-
| ''[[Carnosaur]]'' || [[Jennifer Runyon]] || Ann 'Thrush' || Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle" || 1993
|-
| ''[[Blood In, Blood Out]]'' || [[Thomas F. Wilson]] || McCann || || 1993
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco]]'' || || Branch Davidian cultists || || 1993
|-
| ''[[Rage and Honor II]]'' || || Indonesian police || || 1993
|-
| ''[[Léon (The Professional)]]'' || || NYPD ESU officers || Mini-14 GB-F || 1994
|-
| ''[[Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, The| The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult]]'' || || Postal carrier || || 1994
|-
| rowspan=3|''[[Cyber Tracker]]'' || [[Jim Maniaci]] || The Tracker || rowspan=2|With aftermarket folding stock and custom muzzle brake || rowspan=3|1994
|-
| [[Stacie Foster]] || Connie Griffith
|-
| || || standard Mini-14, seen in armory
|-
| ''[[Tommy Boy]]'' || [[Rob Lowe]] || Paul Barish || || 1995
|-
| ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' || || Redfoot's henchmen || Mini-14 GB-F, optics mounted || 1995
|-
| ''[[Escape from LA]]'' || || Gang member || || 1996
|-
| ''[[ The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'' || [[Geena Davis]] || Charlene Elizabeth "Charly" Baltimore || Stainless variant with black synthetic stock, scope, and custom stainless muzzle brake, heat shield/barrel shroud || 1996
|-
| ''[[Ransom]]'' || || NYPD ESU officer || || 1996
|-
| ''[[Midnight Heat]]'' || || Payne's henchman || Stainless steel, folding stock, sniper scope || 1996
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[Original Gangstas]]'' || [[Richard Roundtree]] || Slick || With folding stock || rowspan=2|1996
|-
| || A gang member || GB, with folding stock
|-
| ''[[Breakdown]]'' || [[M.C. Gainey]] || Earl || || 1997
|-
|rowspan=3| ''[[The Ultimate Weapon]]'' || [[Hulk Hogan]] || Ben Cutter || rowspan=2| Stainless steel with folding stock || rowspan=3| 1998
|-
| [[Carl Marotte]] || Vince Dean
|-
| || Gunrunners ||
|-
| ''[[Light It Up]]'' || [[Daren Flam]] || NYPD ESU officer || With laser pointer || 1999
|-
| ''[[Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai]]'' || [[Forest Whitaker]] || Ghost Dog || Folding stock, suppressor, and scope attached || 1999
|-
| ''[[Boondock Saints]]'' || || Prison Guard || Choate folding stock || 1999
|-
| ''[[Jane Doe]]'' || [[Christina Cox]] || Peter || with optical sieght || 2001
|-
| ''[[Jane Doe]]'' || [[Teri Hatcher]] || Jane Doe || with optical sieght || 2001
|-
| ''[[Heist (2001)|Heist]]'' || || Mickey's bodyguard || folding stock || 2001
|-
| ''[[Equilibrium]]'' || || Armored Sweeper || Synthetic furniture || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[James DeBello]] || Bert || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[Cerina Vincent]] || Marcy || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[Joey Kern]] || Jeff || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Cabin Fever]]'' || [[Rider Strong]] || Paul || || 2002
|-
| ''[[Outside the Law (2002)|Outside the Law]]'' || Charles Strong || Ken Crowley || Custom with short barrel and folding stock || 2002
|-
| ''[[Christmas Rush]]'' || [[Bernard Browne]] || Wayne || With folding stock || 2002
|-
| ''[[Once upon a time in Mexico]]'' || [[Antonio Banderas]] || El Mariachi || || 2003
|-
| ''[[Once upon a time in Mexico]]'' || || Barrilo's men || || 2003
|-
| ''[[Curse of the Komodo]]'' || [[Melissa Brasselle]] || Tiffany || Stainless, Butler Creek™ aftermarket synthetic folding stock with pistol grip, scoped, and stainless barrel shroud and muzzle brake || 2004
|-
| ''[[District B13]]'' || Various actors || Taha's henchmen || Standard factory configuration || 2004
|-
| ''[[Corsican File, The (L'enquête Corse)|The Corsican File (L'enquête Corse)]]'' || || RG member, Corsican terrorist || with optical sieght || 2004
|-
| ''[[Employee of the Month (2004)|Employee of the Month]] || || bank robber || stainless with black plastic stock || 2004
|-
| ''[[Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada]]'' || Various actors || Mexican Ranchers || || 2005
|-
| ''[[Visitation, The|The Visitation]]'' || [[Joe Unger]] || Matt Kiley || Mini-14 GB w/ folding stock || 2006
|-
| ''[[Delta Farce]]'' || || Carlo Santana's men|| || 2007
|-
| ''[[We Own the Night]]'' || || NYPD ESU officers || || 2007
|-
|''[[We Own the Night]]''||[[Antoni Corone]]||Lieutenant Michael Solo||||2007
|-
| ''[[Elite Squad]]'' || || Drug dealers || || 2007
|-
| ''[[Mesrine: Killer Instinct]]'' || || Prison guard riflemen || || 2008
|-
|''[[Mesrine: Public Enemy Number 1]]''||||French police||||2008
|-
| ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' || || vigilante Batman copycat || || 2008
|-
| ''[[Felon]]'' || [[Harold Perrineau]] || Lt. Bill Jackson || || 2008
|-
| ''[[The American]]'' || [[George Clooney]] || Jack || Mini-14 (Pre-2005 style) with factory folding Stock and hand-made suppressor || 2010
|-
| ''[[The A-Team (2010)|The A-Team]]'' || [[Liam Neeson]] || Hannibal || || 2010
|-
| ''[[Tomorrow, When the War Began]]'' || ||Australian resistance fighters|| || 2010
|-
| ''[[Red State]]'' ||||||seen on wall|| 2011
|-
| ''[[A Gang Story (Les Lyonnais)]]'' ||||Robbers||With Choate folding stock and extended magazine|| 2011
|-
| ''[[Casa de mi Padre]]'' || || Henchman || folding stock || 2012
|-
| ''[[Host, The (2013)|The Host (2013)]]'' || || Resistance member ||pre-2005 model || 2013
|-
| ''[[Frozen Ground, The|The Frozen Ground]]''|| [[John Cusack]] || Robert Hansen || MINI-14 GB with folding stock and sniper scope || 2013
|-
| rowspan=3 | ''[[Blue Ruin]]''|| [[Macon Blair]] || Dwight || rowspan=3 | Mini-14 GB || rowspan=3 | 2013
|-
| [[Devin Ratray]] || Ben
|-
| [[Kevin Kolack]] || Teddy
|-
|''[[Bright]]''||||gang member||||2017
|-
| ''[[Hostage X]]'' || [[Stefanie Joosten]] || The Agent || Mini-14 GB with folding stock and sniper scope || 2017
|-
|''[[Logan (2017)|Logan]]''||[[Lennie Loftin]]||Jackson||||2017
|-
| rowspan=4|''[[Hold the Dark]]'' || [[Riley Keough]] || Medora Slone || rowspan=2|With folding stock || rowspan=4|2018
|-
| [[Jeffrey Wright]] || Russell Core
|-
| Julian Black Antelope || Cheeon || rowspan=2|
|-
| || Policeman
|-
|''[[22 July]]''||Anders Danielsen Lie||Anders Behring Breivik||||2018
|-
|''[[Black Widow (2021)|Black Widow]]''||[[David Harbour]]||Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian||scoped; pre and post-2005 versions (continuity error)||2021
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Show Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Note / Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| rowspan=3| ''[[A-Team, The|The A-Team]]'' || [[George Peppard]] || Hannibal Smith || || rowspan=3| 1983 - 1988
|-
| [[Dirk Benedict]] || Templeton "Faceman" Peck ||
|-
| [[Dwight Schultz]] || "Howling Mad" Murdock ||
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 4|Bergerac]]'' || [[Lorcan Cranitch]] || A police sniper || With sniper scope and foregrip; "Avenge O Lord" (S04E09) || 1985
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 5|Bergerac]]'' || || Police snipers || With sniper scope; "The Deadly Virus" (S05E05) || 1987
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 8|Bergerac]]'' || || Police snipers || With sniper scope; "Diplomatic Incident" (S08E10) || 1990
|-
| ''[[Bergerac - Season 9|Bergerac]]'' || || Police snipers || With sniper scope; "My Friend Charlie" (S09E05) || 1991
|-
| ''[[Lady Cop (Die Kommissarin) - Season 2]]'' || [[Vitus Zeplichal]] || Paul Boeder || "Familienfest" (S02E07) || 1995
|-
| rowspan=4| ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' || [[Morgan Weisser]] || Lt. Nathan West || rowspan=4| Mocked up as the 'M590 Assault Rifle' (heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell) || rowspan=4| 1995 - 1996
|-
| [[Kristen Cloke]] || Captain Shane Vansen
|-
| [[Rodney Rowland]] || Lt. Cooper Hawkes
|-
| Various actors || US Marines
|-
| ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' || Various actors || Police honor guard ||"Lost Son", black synthetic stocks and chromed metal parts || 2002 - 2012
|-
| ''[[24]]'' || [[Kiefer Sutherland]] || Jack Bauer || "7 p.m.-8 p.m." || 2005
|-
|''[[NCIS - Season 3|NCIS]]''||[[Todd Allen]]||James Landis||"Ravenous" (S3E17)||2006
|-
|''[[NCIS - Season 3|NCIS]]''||[[Mark Harmon]]||Gibbs||"Ravenous" (S3E17)||2006
|-
| ''[[Sea Patrol]]'' || || || || 2007 -
|-
| ''[[Monk]]''|| [[Titus Welliver]] || Daniel Reese || "Mr. Monk's Other Brother" || 2008
|-
| rowspan=2| ''[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' || [[Shane Edelman]] || Matt Murch || || rowspan=2| 2008 - 2009
|-
| [[Dean Winters]] || Charley Dixon ||
|-
| rowspan=2| ''[[Prison Break - Season 4]]'' || || Assasssin || rowspan=2| w/ scope and 20-round magazine || rowspan=2| 2009
|-
| [[Dominic Purcell]] || Lincoln Burrows
|-
| ''[[Justified - Season 1]]'' || ||One of the Pork Brothers||"Fire in the Hole" (S1E01)|| 2010
|-
| ''[[Longmire - Season 1]]'' || || Hunter || "The Cancer" (S1E04) || 2012
|-
| ''[[The Last Ship - Season 2|The Last Ship]]'' |||| Thorwald's men ||"Fight the Ship" (S2E02) || 2015
|-
| ''[[Murder in the First]]|| || Cascade's men || "State of the Union" (S2E07) || 2015
|-
| rowspan=2|''[[The Walking Dead - Season 6]]'' || Unknowns || Savior members || GB Model; "Not Tomorrow Yet" (S6E12), "East" (S6E15) || rowspan=2|2016
|-
| [[Melissa McBride]] || Carol Peletier || "Last Day on Earth" (S6E16)
|-
| rowspan=8|''[[The Walking Dead - Season 7]]'' || Unknown || Saviors member || "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" (S7E01) || rowspan=8|2016-2017
|-
| [[Daniel Newman]] || Daniel || "The Well" (S7E02)
|-
| [[Melissa McBride]] || Carol Peletier || "The Well" (S7E02), "Rock in the Road" (S7E09), "Bury Me Here" (S7E13)
|-
| [[Jordan Woods-Robinson]] || Eric Raleigh || GB Model; "Something They Need" (S7E15), "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| [[Dahlia Legault]] || Francine || Stainless Steel Model; "Something They Need" (S7E15), "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| Unknown || Scavengers member || GB Model; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| [[Chandler Riggs]] || Carl Grimes || GB Model; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
| [[Karen Ceesay]] || Bertie || GB Model; "The First Day of the Rest of Your Lives" (S7E16)
|-
|''[[Stranger Things - Season 2|Stranger Things]]''||||CPD Police||"Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister" (S2E07)||2017
|-
|''[[True Detective - Season 3|True Detective]]'' ||[[Michael Greyeyes]]||Brett Woodward||||2019
|-
|}

===Video Games===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Fallout Tactics]]''||Ruger AC556F||w/ folding stock and reflex scope||||2001
|-
|''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]''||Kruger||GB-F model||||2002
|-
|''[[Condemned: Criminal Origins]]''||"Rifle" ||with 10-round mag and shortened barrel || semi-auto only || 2005
|-
|''[[Kane and Lynch: Dead Men]]''|| || Synthetic furniture || ||2007
|-
|''[[Cross Fire (2007 VG)|Cross Fire]]''||"Ruger MINI-14" ||extended magazine|| ||2007
|-
|''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' || Hunting Rifle || w/ scope and tactical flaslight || pre-2005 model ||2008
|-
| ''[[7.62 High Calibre]]'' || || ||w/ various attachments|| 2008
|-
|''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]''|| Hunting Rifle || w/ scope, tactical flashlight and optional laser sight|| ||2009
|-
| ''[[Jagged Alliance: Back in Action]]''||Mini14||||||2012
|-
|''[[State of Decay]]''||"Mini 14" || ||10-rounded magazine ||2013
|-
| ''[[World of Guns: Gun Disassembly]]'' || Ruger Mini-14 || ||5-round magazine || 2014
|-
| ''[[Escape from Tarkov]]''|||||| seen on the Mechanic art||2018
|-
|}
 

=Ruger AC556=
[[Image:RugerAC556.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Ruger AC556 Carbine - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:RugerAC556 SS.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Ruger AC556 Carbine with Full Stock - 5.56x45mm]]
[[File:RugerAC556 ss Folder.jpg |thumb|500px|right|Stainless Steel Ruger AC556 Carbine with Factory Folder Stock - 5.56x45mm]]
[[Image:RugerAC556folder.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Ruger AC556K with 20-round magazine 5.56x45mm]]

The '''Ruger AC556''' is the fully automatic version of the Mini-14 with a distinctive barrel and bayonet lug. These models come with either a pistol grip and side-folding stock or the standard semi-pistol grip fixed stock. Ruger also offers the Mini-14 GB ("Government Barrel" Model) which is a semi-automatic only version of the AC556 originally intended for military, law enforcement, and private security sales. However, many examples of the Mini-14 GB have also entered the civilian market. The full-auto AC556 has a distinctive fire mode selector switch on the back of the receiver that the semi-auto Mini-14 does not.

Please note that many times, a semi-auto only Mini-14 GB rifle is used to impersonate a full auto AC556, especially when mounted into a factory folding stock. Unless the rifle fires full auto, or one can clearly see the selector switch (which the Mini-14 doesn't have), it will be identified as a Mini-14 until its pedigree as an AC556 can be verified.
==Specifications==
(1980 - 1999)

* '''Type:''' Assault Rifle

* '''Caliber:''' 5.56x45mm NATO

* '''Weight:''' {{convert|kg|2.9}}

* '''Length:''' {{convert|mm|603}} (stock folded), {{convert|mm|851}} (stock extended)

* '''Barrel length:'''{{convert|mm|330}}

* '''Feed System:''' 5, 10, 20 or 30 rounds detachable box magazine

* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto/Burst-3/Full-Auto

-----

===Film===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
|''[[The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)]]'' || || Norbert || AC556K || 1984
|-
|''[[The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (La vengeance du serpent à plumes)]]'' || || French police || || 1984
|-
| ''[[Hold-Up]]'' || || Montreal police || || 1985
|-
| ''[[Cobra]]'' || || Night Slasher gangmembers ||AC556K || 1986
|-
| ''[[The Fugitives]]'' || || French gendarmes || || 1986
|-
| ''[[Fatal Beauty]]''|| [[Mike Jolly]] || Earl Skinner || AC556K || 1987
|-
| ''[[Loner, The (Le Solitaire)|The Loner]]''|| || French police officers || AC556 || 1987
|-
| ''[[Rage of Honor]]'' || [[Sho Kosugi]] || Shiro Tanaka || AC556K || 1987
|-
| ''[[Rage of Honor]]'' || || Various henchmen || AC556K || 1987
|-
| ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' || [[Michael Palin]] || Ken || scoped AC556 with suppressor || 1988
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders]]'' || [[David Soul]] || Michael Platt || AC-556K || 1988
|-
| ''[[In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders]]'' || || Paramilitary group || AC-556K || 1988
|-
| ''[[Let Sleeping Cops Lie (Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort)]]'' || [[Michel Serrault]] || Commissaire Scatti || AC556K || 1988
|-
| ''[[Snake Eater]]'' || [[Lorenzo Lamas]] || "Soldier" Jack Kelly || AC556 || 1989
|-
| ''[[Predator 2]]'' || || Jamaican Drug Gang || AC556K || 1990
|-
| ''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]'' || || Shield Corporation guards || AC556 || 1991
|-
| ''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]'' || [[Christopher Lambert]] || Connor MacLeod || AC556 || 1991
|-
| ''[[Highlander II: The Quickening]]'' || [[Virginia Madsen]] || Louise Marcus || AC556 || 1991
|-
| ''[[Class of 1999]]'' || || || ||1990
|-
| ''[[Lethal Weapon 3]]'' || || Travis' henchmen || AC556 || 1992
|-
| ''[[Freejack]]'' || || Mercenaries || || 1992
|-
| ''[[Escape from LA]]'' || [[Kurt Russell]] || Snake Plissken || AC556 stainless steel variant with a polymer Choate Stock and mounted scope || 1996
|-
| ''[[Escape from LA]]'' || [[George Corraface]] || Cuervo Jones || AC556 stainless steel variant with a polymer Choate Stock and mounted scope || 1996
|-
| ''[[Broken Arrow]]'' || [[John Travolta]] || Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins || Ruger AC-556K || 1996
|-
| ''[[Face/Off]]'' || || Prison guards || AC556 || 1997
|-
| ''[[Face/Off]]'' || [[Chris Bauer]] || Ivan Dubov || AC556 || 1997
|-
| ''[[Hard Rain]]'' || [[Minnie Driver]] || Karen || AC556 || 1998
|-
| ''[[Hard Rain]]'' || || Police officers and criminals || AC556 || 1998
|-
|''[[Formula 51]]''||[[Emily Mortimer]]||Dakota||||2001
|-
| ''[[S.W.A.T. (2003)| S.W.A.T. (2003)]]'' || || Gang members || AC556K || 2003
|-
| ''[[New Police Story]]'' || || Fire || AC556F || 2004
|-
| ''[[District B13]]'' || || Taha's henchman || Stainless AC556-SS, black synthetic stock || 2004
|-
| ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'' || || refugee || stainless, folding stock || 2009
|-
| ''[[Watchmen]]'' || || NYPD ESU officers || AC556 || 2009
|-
| ''[[A Gang Story (Les Lyonnais)]]'' || || Robber || AC556K || 2011
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Show Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="175"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Note / Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="75"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| rowspan=3| ''[[Miami Vice - Season 1]]''||[[Jim Zubiena]]|| Ludovici Armstrong || AC556K with folding stock / "The Hit List" || rowspan=3| 1984 - 1985
|-
| Various actors || SRT members || AC556 with folding stock / "Cool Runnin"
|-
| Various actors || SRT members ||AC556 with full stock / "The Maze"
|-
| rowspan=4| ''[[The X-Files - Season 7]]'' || [[David Duchovny]] || FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder || rowspan=4| Mocked up as the 'M590 Assault Rifle' (heavily modified version, hidden in a custom Sci-fi Shell) / "First Person Shooter" (S7E13) || rowspan=4| 2000
|-
| [[Gillian Anderson]] || FBI Special Agent Dana Scully
|-
| [[Krista Allen]] || Maitreya
|-
| Billy Ray Gallion || 'Retro'
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || || Bandit || AC556K with folding stock / "Our Mrs. Reynolds" (S1E06) || 2002
|-
|}

=== Video Games ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Splinter Cell Chaos Theory]]''|| || || AC556 || 2005
|-
|''[[Cross Fire (2007 VG)|Cross Fire]]''||"Ruger AC-556" ||with SCAR CQB stock|| ||2007
|-
| ''[[Insurgency (2014)|Insurgency]]'' || || w/ various attachments || AC556 With synthetic furniture || 2014
|-
| ''[[Playerunknown's Battlegrounds]]'' || Mini 14 || || w/ various attachments || 2017
|-
|}
 

=Ruger Mini-14 in Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup Stock=
[[Image:RugerMuzzelite.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Ruger Mini-14 in a Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock - 5.56x45mm]]
[[File:Ruger Mini 14 Muzzelite Bullpup scope mount.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Ruger Mini-14 in a Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock with a scope mount - 5.56x45mm]]
[[File:Ruger Mini 14 Muzzelite Bullpup stainless flash hider.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Ruger Mini-14 in a Muzzelite MZ14 Bullpup stock with 4.5 inch flash hider - 5.56x45mm]]

The '''Muzzelite MZ14''' is a polymer rifle stock that was designed to convert the Ruger Mini-14/AC556 into a compact bullpup carbine. Contrary to some urban legends, these were never seriously looked at as an alternative weapon for law enforcement. The trigger pull is shoddy, too long, and the bullpup itself is back heavy. Most police departments already had full-auto AC556 rifles or semi-auto Rugers (as well as [[AR-15]]s) if they needed a 5.56x45mm assault rifle. It is a simple vacuformed clamshell body that uses a rod to activate the trigger. The Muzzelite stock was sold in configurations that could hold the Ruger Mini-14, the [[Ruger 10/22]], and the [[Marlin Camp Carbine-9|Marlin Camp Carbine]] in 9x19mm, though the only version used in most movies or television shows were the Ruger Mini-14 version. In films like ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'', the AC556 full-auto carbine with a shorter barrel was used inside this bullpup stock.

The Muzzelite stock enclosed Ruger Mini-14 has been used in countless B-Movies and television shows as a result of its futuristic appearance. Films like ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' utilized customized futuristic guns based on the Ruger Mini inside of a Muzzelite stock. These were preferred by the prop makers at Hollywood's Hand Prop Room, since the futuristic shape of the Muzzelite stock made it easier to create unusual science fiction rifles, but also the fact that it expands the appearance potential of the Ruger Mini 14, known in the industry as "The Jamless Wonder" as the Mini-14 never jams or stovepipes using movie blanks, something that cannot be said of any of the other common 5.56x45mm weapons used in films.

===Film===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="275"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="175"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[Guns (1990)|Guns]]'' || [[Erik Estrada]] || Juan Degas || with faux missile launcher, as "Chinese assault rifle Type 3445A"|| 1990
|-
| ''[[Guns (1990)|Guns]]'' || || various thugs || with faux missile launcher, as "Chinese assault rifle Type 3445A"|| 1990
|-
| ''[[Prayer of the Rollerboys]]'' || || various Rollerboys || modified AC556s || 1990
|-
| ''[[Predator 2]]'' || Extra actor || Special Agent Peter Keyes' ([[Gary Busey]]'s) team member || dual wielded || 1990
|-
| ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] || Douglas Quaid || Foresight removed, shortened barrels , and fitted with a small tactical scope on the carrying handle section || 1990
|-
| ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || [[Rachel Ticotin]] || Melina || Foresight removed, shortened barrels , and fitted with a small tactical scope on the carrying handle section || 1990
|-
| ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || Various actors || Mars Federal Colony troops || Foresight removed, shortened barrels , and fitted with a small tactical scope on the carrying handle section || 1990
|-
| ''[[Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection]]'' || Various actors || Ramon Cota's men || || 1990
|-
| ''[[Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection]]'' || Various actors || Delta Force commandos || || 1990
|-
| ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'' || Various actors || Resistance Troops || Some similarly configured to those from ''[[Total Recall (1990)|Total Recall]]'' || 1991
|-
| ''[[Do or Die]]'' || [[Paul Hospodar]] || Duke || || 1991
|-
| ''[[Freejack]]'' || || Bonejackers || || 1992
|-
| ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' || [[Curtis Taylor]], Various actors || Rehab #1, OCP Rehabilitation Officers || tactical flash light mounted on rail || 1993
|-
| ''[[RoboCop 3]]'' || Various actors || 'Splatterpunks' gang members || tactical flash light mounted on rail || 1993
|-
| ''[[On Deadly Ground]]'' || || MacGruder's henchman || || 1994
|-
| ''[[Tank Girl]]'' || [[Lori Petty]] || Tank Girl/Rebecca || || 1995
|-
| ''[[Tank Girl]]'' || Various actors || Water and Power agents || modified with scopes and vertical foregrips|| 1995
|-
| ''[[Digital Man]]'' || || Terrorists, MP personnel || || 1995
|-
| ''[[Midnight Man]]'' || || Cambodian and Russian mobsters || || 1995
|-
| ''[[Midnight Heat]]'' || [[Brian Bosworth]] || Wayne Garret || With barrel shroud and night vision device || 1996
|-
| ''[[Midnight Heat]]'' || || Payne's henchmen || With barrel shroud and night vision device || 1996
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Debbe Dunning]] || Priv. Delores Costello || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Ladd York]] || Lucky || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Brent Jasmer]] || SSgt. Books Malloy || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Jessica Collins]] || Dr. Tina Reeves || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Rick Peters]] || Mooch || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Miguel A. Núñez Jr.]] || Sticks || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Leprechaun 4: In Space]]'' || [[Geoff Meed]] || Kowalski || with large laser sight mounted || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Casper Van Dien]] || Johnny Rico || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Jake Busey]] || Ace Levy || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Dina Meyer]] || Dizzy Flores || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Michael Ironside]] || Lt. Jean Rasczak || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Carbine]]", also uses a Sniper Rifle variant || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Patrick Muldoon]] || Zander Barcalow|| Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Carbine]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Denise Richards]] || Carmen Ibanez || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Carbine]]" || 1997
|-
| [[Starship Troopers]]'' || [[Seth Gilliam]] || Pt. Sugar Watkins || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Mk 1 Sniper Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' || Various actors || Mobile Infantry soldiers || Heavily modified AC556, called the "[[(Starship_Troopers)_-_Morita_Rifle_Series|Morita Rifle]]" || 1997
|-
| ''[[Phantoms]]'' || Various actors || Biological Warfare Unit soldiers || Fitted with vertical grips, night-vision scopes, and laser sights; same weapons used in ''[[Tank Girl]]'' || 1997
|-
| ''[[Belly]]'' || || Jamaicans || With red dot sights || 1998
|-
| ''[[K-911]]'' || || || Seen in Phil Cage's armory || 1999
|-
| ''[[Tremors 3: Back to Perfection]]'' || [[Michael Gross]] || Burt Gummer || || 2001
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="275"|'''Show Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="175"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="270"|'''Note / Episode'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="80"|'''Air Date'''
|-
| ''[[Space Rangers]]'' || Various actors || pace Rangers || With fake grenade launcher, and obsolete gas tube laser site as an optical site || 1993
|-
| ''[[seaQuest DSV]]'' || [[Dustin Nguyen]] || Chief William Shan || flash suppressor, flashlight attachment, custom made under barrel grenade launcher || 1993 - 1996
|-
| ''[[seaQuest DSV]]'' || Various actors || UEO Forces || flash suppressor, flashlight attachment, custom made under barrel grenade launcher || 1993 - 1996
|-
| ''[[The X-Files]]'' || Various actors || Military/Black-ops personnel || "Fallen Angel" (S1E09), "Unrequited" (S4E16), other episodes || 1993 - 1997
|-
| ''[[seaQuest 2032]]'' || Various actors || Macronesian Alliance || Ruger removed and the clamshell covers were modified and used as Pulse Rifles by the Macronesian Alliance || 1996
|-
| ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' || [[Robert Beltran]] || Chakotay || with and without tactical flashlights mounted on the carry handle / "Nemesis"|| Sept 24, 1997
|-
| ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' || Various actors || Vori soldiers || with and without tactical flashlights mounted on the carry handle / "Nemesis" || Sept 24, 1997
|-
| ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' || Background || Initiative commando ||with aftermarket flash hider / "The Initiative (S4E07)" || Nov. 16, 1999
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || [[Gina Torres]] || Zoë Alleyne || continuity error, "Serenity" (S01E01) ||2002
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || || extra || "Serenity" (S1E01) ||2002
|-
| ''[[Firefly]]'' || || Alliance troops|| "Serenity" (S1E01) ||2002
|-
| ''[[Missing (2012)]]'' || [[Nikola Navrátil]] || A blonde assassin || with a scope / "Ice Queen" (S01S03)|| 2012
|-
|}

=== Video Games ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Terminator: Resistance (VG)]]''||Plasma Rifle V-25 ||Modified to fire Phased Plasma, has a different external shell || Comes with a red dot sight or a computerized sight || 2019
|-
|}
 

=Ruger Mini Thirty=
[[Image:RugerMini30NewSS.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Stainless Ruger Mini Thirty new production model semiautomatic rifle with flush factory five round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:Ruger Mini-30 Tactical.jpg|thumb|500px|right|Ruger Mini Thirty Tactical with 20-round magazine - 7.62x39mm]]
The '''Ruger Mini Thirty''' is a nearly identical rifle except chambered for 7.62x39mm. Except for the magazines, it would be hard to identify a Mini Thirty from a Mini-14 based on purely visual cues.

Introduced in 1987, the Mini Thirty was designed to take advantage of the large amounts of surplus 7.62x39mm ammunition entering the United States and being sold for low prices. Furthermore, the Mini Thirty was also marketed as a deer hunting rifle, as many American states prohibit deer hunting with rifles chambered in less than .243 caliber.

==Specifications==
(1987 - Present)

* '''Type:''' Carbine

* '''Caliber:''' 7.62x39mm

* '''Weight:''' {{convert|lbs|6.75}}

* '''Length:''' {{convert|in|37.5}}

* '''Barrel length:''' {{convert|in|18.5}}

* '''Feed System:''' 5 or 20 round box magazines

* '''Fire Modes:''' Semi-Auto ''(See note above regarding full-auto)''

-----

===Film===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="170"|'''Actor'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Character'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="50"|'''Date'''
|-
| ''[[The Curse of the Komodo]]''|| [[Melissa Brasselle]] || Tiffany || Pre-2005 model Stainless Mini Thirty with folding stock and scope || 2004
|-
|}
===Video Games===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;" border="1" style="border: 1px solid #D0E7FF; background-color:#ffffff; text-align:left; font-size: 95%"
|-bgcolor=#D0E7FF
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="300"|'''Game Title'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="150"|'''Appears as'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="250"|'''Mods'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="200"|'''Notes'''
!align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="100"|'''Release Date'''
|-
|''[[Max Payne 3]]''||Mini 30||Folding stock, synthetic furniture||||2012
|-
|''[[Uncharted 4: A Thief's End]]''||Mettler M-30||jungle camo synthetic furniture||Mini-30 Tactical||2016
|-
|''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''||Marksman Rifle||ACE stock || incorrect magazine || 2013
|}
 

=See Also=
* [[Ruger]] - A list of all firearms manufactured by Ruger.

[[Category:Gun]]
[[Category:Rifle]]
[[Category:Assault Rifle]]
[[Category:Bullpup]]
[[Category:Carbine]]

Talk:Black Rain

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== Ithaca 37 shotgun ==

Looks more like a Remington to me. But there is a screencap that I located.--[[User:Jcordell|Jcordell]] 17:21, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

''I am not sure what this is but it is '''NOT''' an Ithaca 37 given the fact that the ejection port is clearly visible on the weapon's right hand side whereas the Ithaca ejects from the bottom.'' [[User:Charon68|Charon68]]

The shotgun is a Stevens model 67 (series E). The model on the site here has a different foregrip on it and is not a very good shot of the gun. I can't find a decent picture of one otherwise except on gunbroker. However, I own one that looks just like the one in the film except not cut down, so I will add a good photo soon. -J3

I've inserted an image of Conklin's ammo-count just before the final battle, highlighting all six shells to point out the continuity issue. (Maybe the Foley work is erroneous, and his fourth shell was a misfire?) FYI, the image is capped from the copy of the movie I bought through Youtube. - [[User:Death by Chains|Death by Chains]], 16:45, 17 August 2020, NZST.

== Colt Python Nitpick ==

It's a nitpick but Det. Conklin should not be carrying a Colt Python nor should his partner be carrying a S&W Model 66. Those models are .357 magnums and at the time that the movie was filmed NYPD officers could only carry 38 special revolvers and were only authorized to purchase the S&W Model 10/64, Ruger Speed Six DAO stainless, S&W Model 36/60. Older officers who were carrying a Colt Detective Special and/or Offical Police were grandfathered in. N.Y.P.D. officers purchase their own handguns and in the late eighties the majority of officers either carried the Model 10/64 or the Ruger Speed-Six stainless.

In the 3rd Edition of the ''Standard Catalog of Smith & Wesson'' (Gun Digest Books; 2006) by Jim Supica and Richard Nahas there is an article about the NYPD Model 64's and 60's by R.M. Vivas. The Model 64 Square Butt 4" was the most common followed by the 4" Round Butt, 3" RB, 2" RB and 3" RB. They were authorized for carry from 1987 - 1993. The Model 60 was authorized for carry from 1987 - 1988. There were issues with that production run so in 1989 S&W offered to replace the Model 60's with a 2" Model 64 RB and a $25.00 gift certificate.

Though the N.Y.P.D. transitioned to 9mm semi-autos in 1993 older officers who wished to stay with their revolvers were grandfathered in. There are still a couple thousand officers on the department carrying revolvers, but their numbers are shrinking every year. I have an article from the New York Times that was printed a few years ago about hese older officers. If you're curious send me a message on my page and I'll e-mail it to you. Or you can go to the forum and look up the thread where I posted the article.

But I understand why the movie had them carrying .357 magnum snubbies. They look better on film. --[[User:Jcordell|Jcordell]] 19:05, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

:That's pretty cool that you found all this out. Can I have the URL for the article? -[[User:Gunman69|Gunman69]] 02:15, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Here you go. http://www.imfdb.org/forum/showthread.php?t=634 I posted the article on the forum. Enjoy. --[[User:Jcordell|Jcordell]] 16:26, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

== Matsumoto's pistol ==

He only uses it once, but from the single screenshot, it doesn't look like a P7. --[[User:Funkychinaman|funkychinaman]] 04:58, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

It looks like a 1911 variant, rather small and slim though, could be a colt mustang.--[[User:1911isthebestgunever|One shot is all it takes.]] ([[User talk:1911isthebestgunever|talk]]) 00:51, 8 March 2016 (EST)

To my eye, it's too tall and too long in the slide to be a Colt Mustang, especially in the forward half where the slide 'undercut' is longer than on the Mustang. I'm almost tempted to suggest it's a Colt M1903/M1908 Hammerless, or some derivative thereof.--[[User:Death by Chains|Death by Chains]] 03:24, 18 August 2020 (NZST)

Talk:Black Rain

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Black Rain

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Death by Chains: /* Stevens Model 67 */

{{Infobox Movie|{{PAGENAME}}
|name=Black Rain
|picture=BlackR.jpg
|caption=''Theatrical Release Poster''
|country=[[Image:USA.jpg|25px]]United States
|director= Ridley Scott
|date=1989
|studio=Jaffe-Lansing Pegasus Film Partners
|distributor=Paramount Pictures
|character1=Detective Sergeant Nick Concklin
|actor1=[[Michael Douglas]]
|character2=Detective Charlie Vincent
|actor2=[[Andy Garcia]]
|character3=Inspector Masahiro Matsumoto
|actor3=[[Ken Takakura]]
|character4=Joyce
|actor4=[[Kate Capshaw]]
|character5=Lt. Oliver
|actor5=[[John Spencer]]
|character6= Yakuza assassin
|actor6=[[Al Leong]]
|character7=Yoshimoto
|actor7=[[Jun Kunimura]]
}}

'''''Black Rain''''' is a 1989 thriller directed by [[Ridley Scott]] and starring [[Michael Douglas]] and [[Andy Garcia]] as NYPD detectives who find themselves working with the police in Osaka, Japan to recapture the Yakuza boss they were transporting back and mistakenly let go. Making the film was not only grueling, but difficult as there were many clashes in the methods of Western film productions and Japanese film productions operated. Apparently the 'rules & regulations'-oriented Japanese system aggravated cinematographer Howard Atherton so much that he left and the remaining camera work was completed by [[Jan de Bont]] (who shot ''[[Die Hard]]'' and would later direct ''[[Speed]]''). It is noteworthy that lead actor Yusaku Matsuda who played the main villain Sato, was dying of cancer, but refused to reveal the advanced stage of his disease to director [[Ridley Scott]] for fear that he would be replaced. He finished the movie, telling others that sacrificing his chances at "living a few more months" was a worthy trade off for the chance to "live forever" in a motion picture. He passed away seven months after the movie's American premiere. The cast also included [[Kate Capshaw]] and legendary Japanese actor [[Ken Takakura]].

{{Film Title}}
__TOC__ 

{{Spoilers}}
=Handguns=
==Colt Python Snub Nose==
NYPD Detective Sergeant Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) uses a blued snub-nosed [[Colt Python]] as his main service weapon. However, once Conklin and Charlie arrive in Japan, the Osaka Police Chief stressed that they hand in their guns since they are "civilians" there, so grudgingly turns his Python in and is never seen again throughout the remainder of the movie.
[[Image:Coltpython25.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Colt Python Snub Nose with 2.5" barrel - .357 Magnum]]
[[Image:Br05.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Conklin fires his Python at the fleeing Yakuza.]]
[[Image:BlackR204.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Conklin aims his Python outside the airliner after discovering that he'd been duped into releasing Sato.]]

==Colt Detective Special==
NYPD Detective Sergeant Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) uses a [[Colt Detective Special]] as his backup handgun. Shortly after they arrive in Osaka there is a scene where Conklin and his partner Charlie Vincent are in the Japanese police headquarters. Both the [[Colt Python]] snub and the [[Colt Detective Special]] are visible on Conklin's belt. Conklin carries the two revolvers next to each other in what is known as a "New York Reload". This scene takes place before the two NYPD detectives are forced to turn over their handguns to the Osaka police.
[[Image:Colt Detective Special.jpg|none|thumb|300px|Colt Detective Special 1st Gen - .38 Special]]
[[Image:BRain1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) deploys his [[Colt Detective Special]] while holding his [[Colt Python]] in his left.]]
[[Image:BlackR202.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Conklin searches for Sato with his backup Colt in a meat packing plant.]]
[[Image:BRain 120.jpg|thumb|none|600px|While waiting in Osaka Police Headquarters, Conklin is seen here carrying his two revolvers next to each other in what is known as a "New York Reload".]]

==Smith & Wesson Model 66 Snub Nose==
NYPD Detective Charlie Vincent ([[Andy Garcia]]) uses a [[Smith & Wesson Model 66]] Snub Nose Revolver (with Pachmayr Presentation Grips) during the first half of the movie. Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) is then given Charlie's Model 66, from Osaka Police Assistant Inspector Masahiro Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]), after Charlie's death and uses it in the steel factory shootout.
[[Image:Mod66wPachmayr.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Smith & Wesson Model 66 Snub Nose with Pachmayr grips - .357 Magnum]]
[[Image:BlackR201.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Charlie Vincent ([[Andy Garcia]]) draws his S&W at the Italian restaurant.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 008.jpg‎|thumb|none|600px|Charlie Vincent ([[Andy Garcia]]) gives up his S&W after being told by the Osaka police that they cannot carry their weapons while in Osaka.]]
[[Image:BlackR209.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) with the S&W model 66 in the steel foundry as he's being taunted by Sato.]]

==Smith & Wesson Model 36==
The [[Smith & Wesson Model 36]] is carried by several members of the Osaka Police during the raid on the Yakuza hideout, standing in for the [[Nambu Model 60]]. (The Nambu is the official sidearm of Japanese police, but access to the Nambu is tightly controlled, so film-makers often substitute the broadly-similar Model 36.)
[[Image:S&W 36.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Smith and Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special - 5 shot]]
[[Image:BRain 136.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Osaka officer wields the S&W Model 36.]]
[[Image:BRain 137.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Closeup of the Model 36.]]

==Colt Diamondback==
It appears that one of the uniformed N.Y.P.D. officers assisting Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) and Charlie ([[Andy Garcia]]) when they arrest Sato in the meat packing plant is carrying a [[Colt Diamondback]]. Technically this is incorrect. A uniformed N.Y.P.D. officer in the late 1980's would not have carried that model and instead would have more than likely been carrying a [[Ruger Security Six]], [[Smith & Wesson Model 64]] or the [[Smith & Wesson Model 10]]. However Conklin is shown carrying a Colt Python and Charlie has a S&W Model 66. Neither model would have been carried by a N.Y.P.D. detective in the 1980's so consider it poetic license.
[[Image:Diamond38.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Colt Diamondback with 4" Barrel and Colt Rubber combat grips - .38 Special]]
[[Image:NYPDDiamondback.jpg|thumb|600px|none| N.Y.P.D. officer on the right with a [[Colt Diamondback]]. Note the ventilated top rib. It appears to be too small to be the [[Colt Python]]]]

==Heckler & Koch P9S==
One of Sato's men, Yoshimoto, ([[Jun Kunimura]]) carries a [[Heckler & Koch P9S]] during the foundry gunfight. One is also seen on the table in Sato's hideout when the Osaka police raid it.
[[Image:Hk-p9s-1.jpg‎|thumb|none|300px|Heckler & Koch P9S - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:Black Rain 010.jpg‎|thumb|none|600px|Yoshimoto ([[Jun Kunimura]]) armed with the H&K looks for Conklin in the foundry.]]

==Heckler & Koch P7==
the [[Heckler & Koch P7 pistol series|Heckler & Koch P7]] is used by Osaka Police Assistant Inspector Masahiro Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]) during the steel factory shootout.
[[Image:HKP7M13Pistol.jpg‎|thumb|none|300px|H&K P7M8 - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:BlackR208.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Assistant Inspector Matsumoto fires the P7.]]

==Desert Eagle Mark I==
Sugai's driver ([[Professor Toru Tanaka]]) is seen firing the [[Desert Eagle Mark I]] in the teahouse shootout.
[[Image:MagResDE.357MarkI.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Magnum Research Desert Eagle MK I - .357 Magnum. First model of Desert Eagle put into production.]]
[[Image:Br03.JPG|600px|thumb|none|Sugai's driver fires the Desert Eagle during the final gunfight at the "oyabun" council meeting.]]

=Submachine Guns=
==Heckler & Koch HK94A3==
Numerous gangsters of both Sato and Sugai use the [[Heckler & Koch HK94A3]] in the final shootout - the HK94s are 'chopped and converted' to resemble [[Heckler & Koch MP5A3]]s. Assistant Inspector Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]) takes one from one of Sato's men as he joins up with Conklin.
[[Image:H&K94Conversion.jpg‎|thumb|400px|none|The "Fake MP5", the Heckler & Koch HK94A3 Converted to full auto fire, shortened barrel and added third firing position on trigger pack - 9x19mm. This version was used in many films during the 1980s and 1990s.]]
[[Image:Black2.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]) carries the H&K HK94 in a publicity photo. His HK 94 has a slender foregrip.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 020.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Matsumoto holds the HK94 as he discovers Sato's trap. Note the lack of barrel lugs.]]
[[Image:BlackR210.JPG|thumb|none|600px|Matsumoto fires the HK, killing many of Sato's and Sugai's men.]]

==Micro-Uzi==
Sato's men carry the [[Micro Uzi]] as they enter the Italian Gangster's restaurant where Nick and Charlie are also dining. Sato's men disguised as farmers draw their hidden Micro-Uzi's in the ambush at the teahouse.
[[Image:MicroUziPistolStock.jpg‎|thumb|none|300px|Micro Uzi with folding stock - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:BlackR200.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Sato ([[Yusaku Matsuda]]) is guarded by his Micro-Uzi wielding Yakuza as he enters the restaurant.]]
[[Image:BlackRainUzi.jpg|none|thumb|600px|Another of Sato's henchmen in the resturaunt]]
[[Image:Br04.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Disguised as farmers, Sato's men open fire on the Yakuza bosses with their Micro-Uzi's.]]

==Uzi==
A full-size [[Uzi]] is used by one of the Yakuza during the teahouse shootout at the end of the film.
[[Image:Uzi.jpg|thumb|400px|none|IMI Uzi - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:BlackR211.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|One of Sugai's guards is holding an Uzi as Sato's men ambush them.]]
[[Image:BlackR213.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Sugai's guard on the right holds an UZI as the car explodes behind him]]

==MAC-10==
One of Sato's disguised assassins ([[Al Leong]]) uses a suppressed [[MAC-10]] during the final shootout.
[[Image:IngramMAC10.jpg|thumb|300px|none|Ingram MAC 10 open bolt submachine gun - 9x19mm]]‎
[[Image:BlackR214.JPG|thumb|600px|none|One of Sato's disguised assassins ([[Al Leong]]) holding a suppressed MAC-10 as he's taken out by Matsumoto.]]‎
[[Image:BlackR212.JPG|thumb|600px|none|Sugai's guard on the left holds a MAC-10 as the car explodes behind him.]]‎

=Shotguns=
==Stevens Model 67==
In order to take out Sato, Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) is given a [[Stevens 67]] shotgun by Sugai's men. The weapon features an extended magazine tube and sawed-off stock. Conklin uses it to kill two Yakuza in the house. He was apparently only given three shells for it, as the hammer falls on an empty chamber when he tries to fire a fourth, at which point Conklin discards it.
[[Image:Savage-SpringfieldModel67.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Savage/Springfield Model 67 - 12 gauge. This is the same firearm, built under contract by Savage, but branded 'Springfield' for 3rd party sales]]
[[Image:Br01.JPG|600px|thumb|none|Sugai's men toss the shotgun at Conklin's feet.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 012.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Conklin inspects his (currently empty) shotgun before he leaves to take out Sato.]]
[[Image:BRain_ammo_count.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Unwilling to trust Conklin with a loaded weapon, Sugai's men threw him the ammunition just before departing. Note that he was thrown six shells (highlighted) - a continuity error with the ensuing firefight.]]
[[Image:Br02.JPG|600px|thumb|none|Conklin aims his shotgun at a fleeing Sato.]]

==Remington 870 Folding Stock==
In a continuity error, Conklin's shotgun mysteriously transforms into a [[Remington 870 Folding Stock]]. This was because the main unit couldn't film the final battle in Japan as the filmmaker's visas had run out, so the main unit shifted to California to film the final battle.
[[Image:Remington870PoliceFolder.jpg‎|thumb|none|500px|Remington 870 Police Magnum with folding stock - 12 gauge]]
[[Image:Black.jpg|thumb|300px|none|A publicity photo shows Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) with a Remington 870.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 014.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) with the Remington 870 as he approaches the teahouse.]]

=Rifles=
==Steyr SSG 69==
Members of the Osaka SWAT Team carry [[Steyr SSG 69]] bolt-action sniper rifles when they raid Sato's suspected hideout.
[[Image:SteyrSSG69.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Steyr SSG 69 - 7.62x51mm NATO]]
[[Image:BlackR205.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Osaka police with the sniper rifle.]]

==Norinco Type 56-1==
A Yakuza fires the [[Norinco Type 56-1]] in the teahouse shootout.
[[Image:Type56S.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Norinco Type 56-1 - 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:Br03.JPG|600px|thumb|none|A Yakuza on the right fires the Norinco.]]

=Miscellaneous=
==Trivia==
Though the majority of the scenes taking place in Japan were actually filmed in Japan, the final shootout at the winery took places in Napa, California for two reasons. (a) The production's work Visa had run out but more importantly (b) Japan's strict gun control forces many filmmakers to use 'flash paper' style non guns. Since Ridley Scott wanted real automatic weapons firing blanks, they had to film the gun battle in the U.S. What also tips off the viewer that this shootout was filmed in the states was the presence of so many well known '''Chinese American Stuntmen''', like [[Al Leong]] of ''[[Die Hard]]'' and ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'' fame, who would not be in Japan (since there are many Japanese Stuntmen who would be available).

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[[Category:Crime]]
[[Category:Ridley Scott]]
[[Category:Detective]]

Black Rain

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Death by Chains: Expanded on S&W Model 36 entry, added image and ammo-count to Stevens 67 shotgun

{{Infobox Movie|{{PAGENAME}}
|name=Black Rain
|picture=BlackR.jpg
|caption=''Theatrical Release Poster''
|country=[[Image:USA.jpg|25px]]United States
|director= Ridley Scott
|date=1989
|studio=Jaffe-Lansing Pegasus Film Partners
|distributor=Paramount Pictures
|character1=Detective Sergeant Nick Concklin
|actor1=[[Michael Douglas]]
|character2=Detective Charlie Vincent
|actor2=[[Andy Garcia]]
|character3=Inspector Masahiro Matsumoto
|actor3=[[Ken Takakura]]
|character4=Joyce
|actor4=[[Kate Capshaw]]
|character5=Lt. Oliver
|actor5=[[John Spencer]]
|character6= Yakuza assassin
|actor6=[[Al Leong]]
|character7=Yoshimoto
|actor7=[[Jun Kunimura]]
}}

'''''Black Rain''''' is a 1989 thriller directed by [[Ridley Scott]] and starring [[Michael Douglas]] and [[Andy Garcia]] as NYPD detectives who find themselves working with the police in Osaka, Japan to recapture the Yakuza boss they were transporting back and mistakenly let go. Making the film was not only grueling, but difficult as there were many clashes in the methods of Western film productions and Japanese film productions operated. Apparently the 'rules & regulations'-oriented Japanese system aggravated cinematographer Howard Atherton so much that he left and the remaining camera work was completed by [[Jan de Bont]] (who shot ''[[Die Hard]]'' and would later direct ''[[Speed]]''). It is noteworthy that lead actor Yusaku Matsuda who played the main villain Sato, was dying of cancer, but refused to reveal the advanced stage of his disease to director [[Ridley Scott]] for fear that he would be replaced. He finished the movie, telling others that sacrificing his chances at "living a few more months" was a worthy trade off for the chance to "live forever" in a motion picture. He passed away seven months after the movie's American premiere. The cast also included [[Kate Capshaw]] and legendary Japanese actor [[Ken Takakura]].

{{Film Title}}
__TOC__ 

{{Spoilers}}
=Handguns=
==Colt Python Snub Nose==
NYPD Detective Sergeant Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) uses a blued snub-nosed [[Colt Python]] as his main service weapon. However, once Conklin and Charlie arrive in Japan, the Osaka Police Chief stressed that they hand in their guns since they are "civilians" there, so grudgingly turns his Python in and is never seen again throughout the remainder of the movie.
[[Image:Coltpython25.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Colt Python Snub Nose with 2.5" barrel - .357 Magnum]]
[[Image:Br05.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Conklin fires his Python at the fleeing Yakuza.]]
[[Image:BlackR204.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Conklin aims his Python outside the airliner after discovering that he'd been duped into releasing Sato.]]

==Colt Detective Special==
NYPD Detective Sergeant Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) uses a [[Colt Detective Special]] as his backup handgun. Shortly after they arrive in Osaka there is a scene where Conklin and his partner Charlie Vincent are in the Japanese police headquarters. Both the [[Colt Python]] snub and the [[Colt Detective Special]] are visible on Conklin's belt. Conklin carries the two revolvers next to each other in what is known as a "New York Reload". This scene takes place before the two NYPD detectives are forced to turn over their handguns to the Osaka police.
[[Image:Colt Detective Special.jpg|none|thumb|300px|Colt Detective Special 1st Gen - .38 Special]]
[[Image:BRain1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) deploys his [[Colt Detective Special]] while holding his [[Colt Python]] in his left.]]
[[Image:BlackR202.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Conklin searches for Sato with his backup Colt in a meat packing plant.]]
[[Image:BRain 120.jpg|thumb|none|600px|While waiting in Osaka Police Headquarters, Conklin is seen here carrying his two revolvers next to each other in what is known as a "New York Reload".]]

==Smith & Wesson Model 66 Snub Nose==
NYPD Detective Charlie Vincent ([[Andy Garcia]]) uses a [[Smith & Wesson Model 66]] Snub Nose Revolver (with Pachmayr Presentation Grips) during the first half of the movie. Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) is then given Charlie's Model 66, from Osaka Police Assistant Inspector Masahiro Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]), after Charlie's death and uses it in the steel factory shootout.
[[Image:Mod66wPachmayr.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Smith & Wesson Model 66 Snub Nose with Pachmayr grips - .357 Magnum]]
[[Image:BlackR201.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Charlie Vincent ([[Andy Garcia]]) draws his S&W at the Italian restaurant.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 008.jpg‎|thumb|none|600px|Charlie Vincent ([[Andy Garcia]]) gives up his S&W after being told by the Osaka police that they cannot carry their weapons while in Osaka.]]
[[Image:BlackR209.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Nick Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) with the S&W model 66 in the steel foundry as he's being taunted by Sato.]]

==Smith & Wesson Model 36==
The [[Smith & Wesson Model 36]] is carried by several members of the Osaka Police during the raid on the Yakuza hideout, standing in for the [[Nambu Model 60]]. (The Nambu is the official sidearm of Japanese police, but access to the Nambu is tightly controlled, so film-makers often substitute the broadly-similar Model 36.)
[[Image:S&W 36.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Smith and Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special - 5 shot]]
[[Image:BRain 136.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Osaka officer wields the S&W Model 36.]]
[[Image:BRain 137.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Closeup of the Model 36.]]

==Colt Diamondback==
It appears that one of the uniformed N.Y.P.D. officers assisting Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) and Charlie ([[Andy Garcia]]) when they arrest Sato in the meat packing plant is carrying a [[Colt Diamondback]]. Technically this is incorrect. A uniformed N.Y.P.D. officer in the late 1980's would not have carried that model and instead would have more than likely been carrying a [[Ruger Security Six]], [[Smith & Wesson Model 64]] or the [[Smith & Wesson Model 10]]. However Conklin is shown carrying a Colt Python and Charlie has a S&W Model 66. Neither model would have been carried by a N.Y.P.D. detective in the 1980's so consider it poetic license.
[[Image:Diamond38.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Colt Diamondback with 4" Barrel and Colt Rubber combat grips - .38 Special]]
[[Image:NYPDDiamondback.jpg|thumb|600px|none| N.Y.P.D. officer on the right with a [[Colt Diamondback]]. Note the ventilated top rib. It appears to be too small to be the [[Colt Python]]]]

==Heckler & Koch P9S==
One of Sato's men, Yoshimoto, ([[Jun Kunimura]]) carries a [[Heckler & Koch P9S]] during the foundry gunfight. One is also seen on the table in Sato's hideout when the Osaka police raid it.
[[Image:Hk-p9s-1.jpg‎|thumb|none|300px|Heckler & Koch P9S - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:Black Rain 010.jpg‎|thumb|none|600px|Yoshimoto ([[Jun Kunimura]]) armed with the H&K looks for Conklin in the foundry.]]

==Heckler & Koch P7==
the [[Heckler & Koch P7 pistol series|Heckler & Koch P7]] is used by Osaka Police Assistant Inspector Masahiro Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]) during the steel factory shootout.
[[Image:HKP7M13Pistol.jpg‎|thumb|none|300px|H&K P7M8 - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:BlackR208.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Assistant Inspector Matsumoto fires the P7.]]

==Desert Eagle Mark I==
Sugai's driver ([[Professor Toru Tanaka]]) is seen firing the [[Desert Eagle Mark I]] in the teahouse shootout.
[[Image:MagResDE.357MarkI.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Magnum Research Desert Eagle MK I - .357 Magnum. First model of Desert Eagle put into production.]]
[[Image:Br03.JPG|600px|thumb|none|Sugai's driver fires the Desert Eagle during the final gunfight at the "oyabun" council meeting.]]

=Submachine Guns=
==Heckler & Koch HK94A3==
Numerous gangsters of both Sato and Sugai use the [[Heckler & Koch HK94A3]] in the final shootout - the HK94s are 'chopped and converted' to resemble [[Heckler & Koch MP5A3]]s. Assistant Inspector Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]) takes one from one of Sato's men as he joins up with Conklin.
[[Image:H&K94Conversion.jpg‎|thumb|400px|none|The "Fake MP5", the Heckler & Koch HK94A3 Converted to full auto fire, shortened barrel and added third firing position on trigger pack - 9x19mm. This version was used in many films during the 1980s and 1990s.]]
[[Image:Black2.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Matsumoto ([[Ken Takakura]]) carries the H&K HK94 in a publicity photo. His HK 94 has a slender foregrip.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 020.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Matsumoto holds the HK94 as he discovers Sato's trap. Note the lack of barrel lugs.]]
[[Image:BlackR210.JPG|thumb|none|600px|Matsumoto fires the HK, killing many of Sato's and Sugai's men.]]

==Micro-Uzi==
Sato's men carry the [[Micro Uzi]] as they enter the Italian Gangster's restaurant where Nick and Charlie are also dining. Sato's men disguised as farmers draw their hidden Micro-Uzi's in the ambush at the teahouse.
[[Image:MicroUziPistolStock.jpg‎|thumb|none|300px|Micro Uzi with folding stock - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:BlackR200.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Sato ([[Yusaku Matsuda]]) is guarded by his Micro-Uzi wielding Yakuza as he enters the restaurant.]]
[[Image:BlackRainUzi.jpg|none|thumb|600px|Another of Sato's henchmen in the resturaunt]]
[[Image:Br04.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Disguised as farmers, Sato's men open fire on the Yakuza bosses with their Micro-Uzi's.]]

==Uzi==
A full-size [[Uzi]] is used by one of the Yakuza during the teahouse shootout at the end of the film.
[[Image:Uzi.jpg|thumb|400px|none|IMI Uzi - 9x19mm]]
[[Image:BlackR211.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|One of Sugai's guards is holding an Uzi as Sato's men ambush them.]]
[[Image:BlackR213.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Sugai's guard on the right holds an UZI as the car explodes behind him]]

==MAC-10==
One of Sato's disguised assassins ([[Al Leong]]) uses a suppressed [[MAC-10]] during the final shootout.
[[Image:IngramMAC10.jpg|thumb|300px|none|Ingram MAC 10 open bolt submachine gun - 9x19mm]]‎
[[Image:BlackR214.JPG|thumb|600px|none|One of Sato's disguised assassins ([[Al Leong]]) holding a suppressed MAC-10 as he's taken out by Matsumoto.]]‎
[[Image:BlackR212.JPG|thumb|600px|none|Sugai's guard on the left holds a MAC-10 as the car explodes behind him.]]‎

=Shotguns=
==Stevens Model 67==
In order to take out Sato, Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) is given a [[Stevens 67]] shotgun by Sugai's men. The weapon features an extended magazine tube and sawed-off stock. Conklin uses it to kill two Yakuza in the house. He was apparently only given three shells for it, as the hammer falls on an empty chamber when he tries to fire a fourth, at which point Conklin discards it.
[[Image:Savage-SpringfieldModel67.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Savage/Springfield Model 67 - 12 gauge. This is the same firearm, built under contract by Savage, but branded 'Springfield' for 3rd party sales]]
[[Image:Br01.JPG|600px|thumb|none|Sugai's men toss the shotgun at Conklin's feet.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 012.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Conklin inspects his shotgun before he leaves to take out Sato.]]
[[Image:BRain_ammo_count.jpg|600px|thumb|none|Oddly enough, Sugai's men didn't trust Conklin with a loaded weapon, so the ammunition came later. Note that he was thrown six shells (highlighted) - a continuity error with the ensuing firefight.]]
[[Image:Br02.JPG|600px|thumb|none|Conklin aims his shotgun at a fleeing Sato.]]

==Remington 870 Folding Stock==
In a continuity error, Conklin's shotgun mysteriously transforms into a [[Remington 870 Folding Stock]]. This was because the main unit couldn't film the final battle in Japan as the filmmaker's visas had run out, so the main unit shifted to California to film the final battle.
[[Image:Remington870PoliceFolder.jpg‎|thumb|none|500px|Remington 870 Police Magnum with folding stock - 12 gauge]]
[[Image:Black.jpg|thumb|300px|none|A publicity photo shows Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) with a Remington 870.]]
[[Image:Black Rain 014.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Conklin ([[Michael Douglas]]) with the Remington 870 as he approaches the teahouse.]]

=Rifles=
==Steyr SSG 69==
Members of the Osaka SWAT Team carry [[Steyr SSG 69]] bolt-action sniper rifles when they raid Sato's suspected hideout.
[[Image:SteyrSSG69.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Steyr SSG 69 - 7.62x51mm NATO]]
[[Image:BlackR205.JPG‎|thumb|none|600px|Osaka police with the sniper rifle.]]

==Norinco Type 56-1==
A Yakuza fires the [[Norinco Type 56-1]] in the teahouse shootout.
[[Image:Type56S.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Norinco Type 56-1 - 7.62x39mm]]
[[Image:Br03.JPG|600px|thumb|none|A Yakuza on the right fires the Norinco.]]

=Miscellaneous=
==Trivia==
Though the majority of the scenes taking place in Japan were actually filmed in Japan, the final shootout at the winery took places in Napa, California for two reasons. (a) The production's work Visa had run out but more importantly (b) Japan's strict gun control forces many filmmakers to use 'flash paper' style non guns. Since Ridley Scott wanted real automatic weapons firing blanks, they had to film the gun battle in the U.S. What also tips off the viewer that this shootout was filmed in the states was the presence of so many well known '''Chinese American Stuntmen''', like [[Al Leong]] of ''[[Die Hard]]'' and ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'' fame, who would not be in Japan (since there are many Japanese Stuntmen who would be available).

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Death by Chains: Conklin collects his shotgun ammunition.

Conklin collects his shotgun ammunition.