M16 rifle series

The M16 series of assault rifles and carbine variants are used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, and video games:

Specifications

Type: AssaultRifle

Caliber: 5.56x45mm NATO

Capacity: 20, 30 rounds

Fire Modes: Safe-Semi-Burst (M16A2,M16A4) Safe-Semi-Auto (M16A1,M16A3)

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M16A1 5.56mm

M16 Rifle

Film

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M16 5.56mm

• U.S. Marines in Full Metal Jacket

• Lobby Guards and Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix

• Police officers and Lance Henriksen as Detective Hal Vukovich in The Terminator

• SWAT team members in Die Hard

• U.S. Marines in Heartbreak Ridge

• L.A.P.D. SWAT in Lethal Weapon (deleted scene)

• N.Y.P.D. SWAT officer in The Park is Mine (fitted with night vision scope)

• U.S. Army soldiers in We Were Soldiers

Video Games

• Enter the Matrix

M16A1 Rifle

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M16A1 5.56mm

Film

• Soldiers in Platoon

• Wes Studi as Detective Casals in Heat

• U.S. Army soldiers in Apocalypse Now

• Soldiers in Day of the Dead

• U.S. military personnel, Arius' men, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix in Commando

• U.S. Marines and Soon-Tek Oh as a Japanese Zero pilot in The Final Countdown

• U.S. Marines in Heartbreak Ridge (with and without MILES gear)
• U.S.Air Force Security Police in The Day After
• U.S. Army soldiers in We Were Soldiers (with and without M7 bayonet)

• Sonny Landham as Billy in Predator (fitted with a Mossberg 500 shotgun under the barrel)

• U.S. Army Rangers in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (with and without M203 grenade launcher)

• Chow Yun-Fat as Mark Lee, Anita Mui as Chow Ying Kit, Tony Leung Ka-Fai as Cheung Chi Mun, and ARVN soldiers in A Better Tomorrow III

• N.Y.P.D. SWAT officers in The Park is Mine

• Hong Kong police in Hard Boiled

• Carrie Fisher as the Assassin Mystery Lady "aka"(Jakes Ex-Fiance),various State Troopers,Sheriffs Deputies,Chicago Police SWAT and U.S.Army soldiers in the Blues Brothers.

• Moonraker launch base guards in Moonraker

Anime

• U.S. Army soldiers in Blood+

Video Games

• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (XM16E1 prototype version)

M16/203 rifle and underslung launcher

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M16A2 5.56mm with M203 grenade launcher 40mm

Film

• Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (M16A1)

• Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch in Predator (M16A1)

• Peter Sarsgaard as Troy and Brian Geraghty as Fergus in Jarhead (M16A2)

• U.S. Army soldiers in The Siege (M16A2)

• Hanging in Tom Barnett's place in The Boondock Saints (M16A1)

• Ewan McGregor as Specialist John Grimes in Black Hawk Down (M16A2)

• Philip Kwok as Mad Dog in Hard Boiled

• Reciprocity team member in Clear and Present Danger (M16A2)

• U.S. Marines in Heartbreak Ridge (M16A1)

• U.S. Army Rangers in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (M16A1)

• Carver's henchmen in Tomorrow Never Dies (M16A2)

• American Gangster (M16A1)

Television

• U.S. Army soldiers in The Unit (M16A2)

M16A2 Rifle

Film

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M16A2 5.56mm

• U.S. Army Soldier in I am Legend

• U.S. Army Rangers in Black Hawk Down

• U.S. Army soldiers and Marines in War of the Worlds(2005)

• U.S. Marines in Jarhead

• Miami P.D. officers and U.S. military personnel in Bad Boys II

• Several U.S. characters in Three Kings

• U.S. Army soldiers in The Siege

• U.S. Army soldiers in Fire Birds

• John Leguizamo as Pestario "Pest" Vargas in The Pest

• U.S. military personnel in The Day After Tomorrow

• U.S. Army soldiers in In the Army Now

• Seen on a gun rack in Underworld

• U.S. military personnel in Clear and Present Danger

• U.S. military personnel and South Korean MP's in Die Another Day

• Cocaine plant guards in A Man Apart

• Michael Gross as Burt Gummer in Tremors

• National Guard soldiers in Volcano

• U.S Army soldiers in Godzilla

• U.S. Army soldiers in Courage Under Fire

• U.S. military personnel in The Core

• U.S. military personnel in X-Men: The Last Stand

• U.S. military personnel in Independence Day

• U.S. military personnel in Armageddon

• U.S. Marines in GoldenEye

• Security personnel in Jurassic Park (with and without barrel-mounted tactical flashlights)

• U.S. Marines in Jurassic Park III

• Cary Elwes as Lt. Col. James G. Burton in The Pengtagon Wars

Television

• Nicki Lynn Aycox as Pvt. Brenda 'Mrs. B' Mitchell in Over There

• Lizette Carrin as PFC Esmaralda 'Doublewide' Del Rio in Over There

• Pittsburg P.D. officers and an armored van driver in The Kill Point

• U.S. Military personnel in JAG

• U.S. Army soldiers in The Unit

• Various characters in Jericho

• Various characters in Seven Days

• Militant extremists in Star Trek: Voyager (episode "Future's End")

Video Games

• GoldenEye 007 (as the "AR33")

• Operation Flashpoint

• Battlefield 2

• Conflict: Desert Storm 2 Back to Baghdad

• America's Army

M16A4 Rifle

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M16A4 5.56mm with magazine removed

Film

• An Arcadia 234 inhabitant in Soldier

Television

• CSI: Miami (fitted with ACOG scope, tactical flashlight, RIS foregrip, and AN/PEQ-2 laser system)

• Major Beck's men in Jericho

Video Games

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Facts

The A4 is often mistaken as an A3 w/ RIS rails. This is not true by any means. Two differences are the rails themselves (never installed on A3) and a heavier barrel.

Colt Commando Carbine

Film

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Colt Commando 5.56mm

• M.O.I. Swat teams in Brazil (XM177E2)

• Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (fitted with silencer, laser sight, and ACOG scope, and a standard issue one on the freeway shootout) (XM177E2)

• Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (XM177E2)

• Robert De Niro as Neil McCauley in Heat (M733)

• Val Kilmer as Chris Shiherlis in Heat (M733)

• Delta Force operators and Ron Eldard as Mike Durant in Black Hawk Down (fitted with various accessories including Aimpoint scopes, silencers, tactical flashlights, and camouflage paint) (M723 and M733)

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond (with Aimpoint M3 red-dot sight and camouflage paint) (unknown variant; A2 receiver with XM177-style front end)

• Colonel Coetzee (Arnold Vosloo)'s men in Blood Diamond (with Aimpoint M3 red-dot sight and camouflage paint) (unknown variant; A2 receiver with XM177-style front end)

• Counter-terrorist teams in Toy Soldiers

• Shadow Company goons and Gary Busey as Mr. Joshua in Lethal Weapon (XM177E2; Busey using one with a scope as well as with and without 'jungle-style' taped magazines)

• Drug runners in Bad Boys II (unknown variant)

• Michael Paul Chan as U.N. Cultural Attache of China Xian Chen in U.S. Marshals (XM177E2; fitted with a scope and silencer)

• U.S. military personnel in Die Another Day (unknown variant)

• N.Y.P.D. SWAT in The Park Is Mine (unknown variant)

• Joaquim de Almeida's henchmen in Desperado (XM177E2)

• Reciprocity team members in Clear and Present Danger (XM177E2)

• Willem Dafoe as Sergeant Elias K. Grodin in Platoon (M653)

• N.Y.P.D. SWAT commander in The Park is Mine (unknown variant)

• Danny Glover as Lt. Mike Harrigan in Predator 2, (XM177E2; fitted with M203 grenade launcher)

• Models at the Berlin Arms Fair in Lord of War (M653 and M723)

Television

• Michael Gross as Burt Gummer in Tremors: The Series

Video Games

• The World Is Not Enough (as the "Mustang MAR-4", available with an M203 grenade launcher as the "Mustang MAR-4 GL")

• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

XM607 Carbine

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XM607 5.56mm

Film

• Militia gang member in Pink Cadillac

M4 Carbine

Film

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M4 5.56mm

• "Company Men" in Mr. & Mrs. Smith

• U.S. Navy SEALs in Tears of the Sun

• U.S. Army soldiers in War of the Worlds(2005)

• Jeremy Renner as Brian Gamble, his men, and L.A. Police S.W.A.T. in S.W.A.T. (fitted with ACOG scope and Surefire M500AB tactical flashlight on foregrip)

• TNT and rescue team members in Bad Boys II

• S.W.A.T. officers and Nick Stahl as John Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

• Thomas Jane as Frank Castle in The Punisher (fitted with M203 grenade launcher and M68 Aimpoint Close Combat Optic)

• Miami P.D. SWAT in Transporter 2

• Robbie Gee as Kahn in Underworld (fitted with a scope and a Surefire M500AB tactical flashlight in the foregrip)

• Child recruits in Soldier (fitted with red dot sights)

• Will Smith as Robert Neville in I Am Legend

• US Army soldiers in Cloverfield

• Carver's henchmen and Götz Otto as Richard Stamper in Tomorrow Never Dies (Stamper using one fitted with an M203 grenade launcher)

• NSA Agents in xXx: State of the Union (fitted with Surefire M500AB tactical flashlight on foregrip)

• William Stryker's men in X2 (fitted with M500AB tactical flashlights)

• Jeremy Renner as Doyle in 28 Weeks Later

Television

• U.S. Army soldiers and an Iraqi civilian in Over There (fitted with RIS foregrip and AN/PEQ-2 laser system)

• Luke MacFarlane as Pvt. Frank "Dim" Dumphy in Over There (fitted with M203 grenade launcher and AN/PEQ-2 laser system)

• Keith Robinson as Pvt. Avery "Angel" King in Over There (fitted with RIS foregrip, AN/PEQ-2 laser system, and ACOG scope)

• U.S. military personnel in Stargate SG-1

• Pittsburg P.D. SWAT officers on The Kill Point

• U.S. Army soldiers in The Unit

• Mercenaries in Jericho

• Keifer Sutherland as Agent Jack Bauer and most CTU Tactical Team members in 24

• Miami P.D. SWAT in CSI: Miami

• S.W.A.T. in Heroes

• Las Vegas P.D. SWAT in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (fitted with tactical flashlights)

Video Games

• ArmA: Armed Assault
• Full Spectrum Warrior
• Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
• America's Army
• Max Payne
• Counterstrike:Source
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Grand Theft Auto IV

Anime

• Blood+

Colt 9mm Submachine Gun

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Colt 9mm SMG

Film

• Chow Yun-Fat and Wei's men in The Replacement Killers

• An FBI Special Agent in Collateral

• Hidden in the back seat of the GTO in XXX

• One of the Merovingian's henchmen in The Matrix Reloaded

Video Games

• Enter the Matrix (as the "9mm Carbine")