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Posted: 1/23/2002 6:33:43 PM EDT
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In the movie Lethal Weapon, what kind of rifle is Riggs using to snipe with at the dry lake bed? I don't know, but would love to find out! |
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IIRC it's an HK91. But it's been YEARS since I've watched LW1. Does it look anything like this? www.securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/0300/302.htm I'm certain that it's a 7.62 semiauto. It's not an AR15, or even an AR10. My second guess is an FN-FAL. But I'm reasonably certain that it's an HK91. |
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Tuuka: Is this close? www.securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/0000/58.htm I know it had a scope because you can see Riggs' eye blink through the front of it when the BG holds the MP5 up against his noggin. I seem to recall that they also showed a couple of "crosshair" view shots. |
Definitely a PSG-1. When they cut to the camera angle looking straight at the barrel where Riggs is wanting the guy to move so he can get a good shot, you can clearly see the different fore-end and heavy barrel that is used on a PSG-1. I've only seen the movie about 15 times, so I'm no expert. BTW, where in the hell did Riggs find a PSG-1 lying around on short notice. Hell, that gun, even then, costs more than his little trailer on the beach. I guess LAPD SWAT had one laying around that he could borrow for his personal vendetta against the Shadow Company drug lords. Ha, don't ya just love Hollywood.The camera angle is kinda like this, only from the other side. 
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| Tuukka is correct, this is a PSG-1, the gun was show later in the movie when the general captured Rigs, and he has the gun sling over his shoulder while pointing the MP5 at rigs as they are walking back to the rally point. you can definitely see the stock, and the trigger group. PSG1 does not have a bi-pod, it is equipped with a HK tri pod. HK has known to mount harris bi-pod on their PSG-1 foreend. Just look at the HK weapon system video, you will see a PSG1 on the roof top with a harris bi-pod. |
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Mr Lee is correct, as he often is on this subject. I recall reading a first person account, that HK loaned them one of the first PSG1s in country, that the Hollywierd propman didn't ask, but figured he's go ahead and thread the inside of the barrel so it would cycle blanks, they trashed it and gave it back. Didn't even mention that it was now unusable as a weapon. The guy said the trigger shoe was at that time a necklace for a bimbo crew member. |
Don't you remember that Riggs is ex CIA? I'd guess its a toy that he picked up along the way! |
Don't you remember that Riggs is ex CIA? I'd guess its a toy that he picked up along the way! Oh yeah, I'm voting that its a bastardized HK91 |
| IIRC, Riggs was not former CIA. He was a "Special Forces Sniper" in Vietnam. He was a sniper, he has a "special forces tattoo", and in the movie says he "once did a guy in Laos from a thousand yards out in high wind...". I don't remember any mention of him being a CIA operative. Unless of course he did a stint in the CIA between the time that he was special forces and when he flew for Air America. Hell, that may be how he got the job with Air America. LOL. |
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