Why can hollywood have full auto?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Why can hollywood have full auto?

Posted: 1/12/2006 12:09:51 AM EDT

I know the barrels have been blanked, but ain't it illegal for anyone to have a new FA receiver? Why do the movie bigwigs get away with it?

Posted: 1/12/2006 12:13:37 AM EDT

[#1]

They got a specific exemption from the law.

Hollywood - Bah, hypocrites!

Posted: 1/12/2006 12:15:43 AM EDT

[#2]

They rent from a company. There are companies out there, renting just about everything to movie makers - to include M1 tanks, M113s, HMMWVs, artillery pieces, crashhawks, etc.

Posted: 1/12/2006 12:16:41 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
They got a specific exemption from the law.

Hollywood - Bah, hypocrites!

Wtf...that ain't right...

Posted: 1/12/2006 12:29:52 AM EDT

[#4]

Some of the so-called firearms don’t shoot blanks; they use a gas feed system of some sort that makes it look like they’re shooting blanks. Granted some Hollyweird types do nothing but shoot blanks all day long, but that’s another subject. There was a thread about the fake prop guns last year. Maybe somebody else might remember the Home Page of those fakes.

Posted: 1/12/2006 3:12:50 AM EDT

[#5]

I don't know the percentage, but some of them are Japanese "model gun"s.
Basically glorified cap guns that use cartridges with a place to put caps in.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Why can hollywood have full auto?

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