Neo (Keanu Reeves) opens up a GE M134 Minigun door mounted on a Bell 212 helicopter while rescuing Morpheus. According to armorer John Bowring, they were firing the gun half-pace at 3,000rpm but it was capable of 6,000rpm.
In the opening scene police burst in on Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) with Glock 17 pistols drawn. These are 3rd Generation models, which were pretty new at the time the film was shot (1998).
Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) carries a pair of Beretta 84F Cheetahs as her sidearms in the film. These were selected because Ms. Moss has considerabley small hands and full sized Beretta 92Fs would have gigantic in her hands.
Apoc (Julian Arahanga) gives Neo (Keanu Reeves) his Zastava CZ99 pistol as they try and escape an Agent-led SWAT attack after visiting the Oracle. The weapon is a CZ99 and not, as has been written previously, a SIG-Sauer P228; some of the weapons rental invoice documents published on Propstore.com have confirmed this. The CZ99 is a Yugoslavian-made pistol which is based on the P220 series, but is actually a very different weapon.
Neo can be seen with a pair of Beretta 92FS pistols during the mission to rescue Morpheus. In one scene he attempts to engage an Agent with them, emptying the magazines of both pistols to no effect. He later uses one in a duel with Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving), but is unable to score a single hit, finally managing to get the barrel of his gun against Smith's head, only to be out of ammo as Smith mockingly points out.
In the lobby shootout scene, the majority of the soldiers Neo and Trinity faced up against were armed with M16 rifles (the weapons lack the forward assist, which means they are very early pre-1967 M16s). The M16s that were used in this scene were a mixture of rifles with the 3-prong flash hider and rifles with the M16A1 "birdcage" flash hider. Neo commandeers this weapon twice: First during the lobby shootout scene, and again while fighting another group of soldiers on the government building's rooftop.
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Micro Uzi
In the lobby scene Neo and Trinity both fire Micro Uzis, Trinity using one to kill one of the first guards Neo missed during his initial barrage.
Apoc (Julian Arahanga) carries a Cobray M11/9 converted to full-auto with a thread protector, and is famously seen firing it to lay down cover fire while he and the others are fleeing from the SWAT team (you can tell it's a Cobray M11/9 and not an original Ingram MAC-10 because the back of the receiver is elongated).
Mouse (Matt Doran)'s pair of shotguns are custom-built cam-operated electric drive automatic 12-gauge shotguns with 25-shell cylinders and a fire rate of 900 rounds per minute. They were crafted by John Bowring, lead armorer of the film. As an inside joke Bowring named the guns "Andy" (serial no. A1169 - Leetspeak for Andy) and "Larry" (serial no. L2779 - Leetspeak for Larry) after the Wachowski brothers.
File:Matrix1.JPG'Mouse' toting Auto Shotguns in his last moments.
Franchi SPAS-12
In the lobby shootout scene, a number of soldiers were armed with Franchi SPAS-12 shotguns, some of which are commandeered and used against their original owners by Neo and Trinity. The versions used by the soldiers have a solid fixed stock/pistol grip combination, similar to that available on the Benelli M3 Super 90.
The SWAT team that breaks into the apartment building during the "deja vu" scene are armed with Australian Automatic Arms Leader T2 MK5 assault rifles (the Semi automatic version known as the SAC). (although the weapons are never shown clearly on screen, this has been confirmed by the rental invoices from Propstore, which also has one of the rubber AAA carbines on sale). The Leader is loosely based on the Armalite AR-18 and was planned to be the next service rifle of the Australian Army, but the rifle lost out to the Steyr AUG during the Australian Army's service rifle trials. The versions used in The Matrix are the "Commando" version which have 11.5-inch barrels; the weapons are also fitted with large tactical flashlights and laser sights. The use of an Australian weapon in this case makes sense, as most of this was filmed in Syndey, Australia.
Neo fires a pair of Skorpion SA Vz 61s fitted with muzzle shrouds in the lobby scene. His spent shell casings are incorrectly shown as 5.56mm and ejecting towards the ground, in reality the Skorpion SA was never chambered in a round so large and the spent casings would be ejected up and to his right. In some other shots, the actual shells of the Skorpion can be seen ejecting as well.
Switch (Belinda McClory) is seen carrying a chrome-plated Browning Hi-Power(with adjustable sights) pistol as her weapon of choice, first holding Neo at gunpoint with it while Trinity removes the 'bug' the Agents planted in him, then using it to lay down cover fire along with Apoc while the others escaped the SWAT team, taking out several SWAT members in the process.
The security guards in the government building's lobby were armed with Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolvers.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingSmith & Wesson Model 10 HB (Heavy barrel) Revolver (Post 1950s Model) - .38 Special. Later incarnations of the Model 10 had a non tapered Heavy Barrel, which leads it to be commonly mistaken for a .357 revolver.
