User:Wuzh/Sandbox

Dump

• FN at the Movies

FN Herstal

A production image of Jack with the FN SCAR-L, the laser designator visible, in Season 8 of 24.

Earl Bassett (Fred Ward): Shotguns? We're not hunting rabbits down here, Burt!
Burt Gummer (Michael Gross): Not shotguns, double rifles! Elephant guns! Westley-Richards .480, 375 H and H mag. Knock-down power up the ying-yang, treat them well! But hold them good and tight to your shoulder or it'll break your collarbone! --Tremors 2: Aftershocks

• <random>

The Daewoo K3 machine gun was regularly used as a substitute for the M249 SAW in numerous television series filmed in Canada such as Stargate SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis.

The "Morita MKI Rifle" used in the 1997 film Starship Troopers is a Ruger AC556 housed in a futuristic shell with an Ithaca 37 shotgun mounted underneath. @@@ The rocket launcher used by U.S. Army soldiers in the film The Incredible Hulk was constructed from a Nerf toy.

Non Guns are often used as substitutes for real weapons in situations where blanks are deemed unsafe. @@@ A converted Heckler & Koch HK91 rifle was a regular substitute in Hollywood productions for the Heckler & Koch SR9 sniper rifle.

In 1988's Die Hard, the sidearm carried by John McClane (Bruce Willis) was a Beretta 92F with a slide release specially modified for the actor. @@@ In the film Lord of War, the production rented 3,000 authentic SA Vz.58 assault rifles for a scene where Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) reviews a Russian weapons stockpile.

The Cobray 37mm Launcher is often used as a substitute for the M203 Grenade Launcher. @@@ Many movies produced in Bulgaria, such as Day of the Dead (2008) and Universal Soldier: Regeneration, feature "M16A2" rifles mocked up from AK-47s.

In numerous films of the 1980s such as Die Hard and Predator, the Heckler & Koch HK94 with the barrel cut down was regularly used as a substitute for the Heckler & Koch MP5. @@@ One of the earliest appearances of the Steyr AUG in a major motion picture was in 1983's Octopussy.

The "SVD Dragunov" sniper rifle used by Ah Jong (Chow Yun-Fat) in 1989's The Killer was actually a modified Norinco Type 56. @@@ One of the earliest appearances of the M16 in a major motion picture was in 1964's Seven Days in May.

The earliest appearance of the AK-47 in a major motion picture was in 1955's Maksim Perepelitsa.

Several of the Uzi submachine guns seen in the films The Dogs of War and Raw Deal were in reality MAC-10's fitted with Uzi handguards and sights. @@@ The first appearance of the Heckler & Koch G36 in a major motion picture was in 1999's The World Is Not Enough.

All of the "AK-47" rifles used in District 9 were actually modified Vektor R5s.

The first appearance of the Desert Eagle in a major motion picture was in 1985's Year of the Dragon. @@@ Because 9mm blanks were more reliable than .45 ACP blanks prior to the 1980s, the Star Model B or the Colt Government Model pistol was often substituted by Hollywood productions for the M1911 pistol.

The first appearance of the Glock 17 in a major Hollywood production was in Season 3 of the series Miami Vice. @@@ The M41A Pulse Rifle from Aliens was built up from an M1 Thompson submachine gun and a shortened Remington 870 shotgun with a SPAS 12 foregrip.

A Jordanian general provided the Beretta 92 pistol used by SFC William James (Jeremy Renner) in 2009's The Hurt Locker. @@@ The "Podbyrin 9.2 mm" handgun used by Ivan Danko (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in the 1988 film Red Heat is a Desert Eagle with a modified barrel and custom trigger guard.

In Soviet films such as The Detached Mission and Pirates of the XXth Century, modified Sturmgewehr 44 rifles were used as substitutes for the M16. @@@ Director Michael Mann used Barrett M82 sniper rifles with live .50 BMG ammunition to destroy a car for a scene in Miami Vice (2006).

Due to legal reasons, the blank-firing version of the Composite Pistol from the 1993 film In The Line of Fire was cut up after filming. @@@ The Russian DShK heavy machine gun seen in numerous Hollywood productions is often either a visually modified Browning M2 heavy machine gun or an M60D machine gun.

The earliest appearance of the flat-top M4A1 Carbine in a major motion picture was in 1997's Air Force One. @@@ For the film The Dark Knight, the report of an M134 minigun was used as the sound effect for the full-auto Glock 17 used by the Joker (Heath Ledger).

The original handgun to be used by RoboCop in the 1987 film was a Desert Eagle, but the handgun looked too small when seen in RoboCop's hand. @@@ One of the earliest appearances of the Heckler & Koch USP in a major motion picture was in 1994's Terminal Velocity.

The M134 minigun used by Blaine (Jesse Ventura) in Predator was later modified and used by the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

The "Auto 9" handgun that was first seen in the film RoboCop also was seen in the films City Hunter and Sin City. @@@ The "Auto-9" used in the film RoboCop was a Beretta 93R with special modifications that included an extended barrel casing that resembled a casket.

The "LAPD 2019 Blaster" used by Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) in Blade Runner was constructed from pieces of a Steyr-Mannlicher Model SL sporting rifle and a Charter Arms Bulldog revolver. @@@ In the film The Green Berets, the rifle that Col. Kirby (John Wayne) smashes against a tree is in fact a Mattel M16 "Marauder" toy gun.

The Chinese Type 69 rocket launcher is often used as a substitute for the similar-looking RPG-7 in Hollywood films and TV shows. @@@ Due to difficulties in bringing live-firing weapons across the Mexican border, El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) had to mimic the act of firing guns while filming Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

All of the "FN P90s" seen in Spawn were actually fakes constructed from Cobray M11/9s. @@@ Some classic films such as Bataan and The FBI Story feature "M1911" pistols constructed from Colt Detective Special revolvers in aluminum shells.

For safety reasons, machine guns mounted on aircraft and helicopters in films are often powered by Acetylene gas to simulate gun flashes instead of using real ammunition. These can be identified by fiery, exaggerated muzzle flashes. @@@ The 2012 film Act of Valor features active-duty US Navy SEALs in the starring roles and many of the scenes were done under live-fire conditions.

In the 2010 film The A-Team, Hannibal (Liam Neeson) is seen using a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle, a tribute to the rifle of choice carried the A-Team in the original television series. </random>

Usability Concerns

Databasification

Despite IMFDB billing itself as a "database" of information, it is not actually structured like a database. Gun appearances have to be manually filled into gun and actor pages, instead of being automatically generated. This forces lots of busywork that could be optimized away; by restructuring the Wiki so that "Gun Appearance Entries" can be logged into a database (containing gun model, gun notes, gun user, etc.), and then having Gun/Actor pages automatically retrieve entries from that database to build their gun appearance tables, this eliminates the need for manual entry inputting, making the appearance pages more complete and reducing the burden on our editors.

Example of implementation: Yugipedia's card database functions.

Advertisement Intrusion

In my personal experience with using the wiki without an ad-blocker, IMFDB stands out as a particularly awful website usability-wise due to the intrusiveness of its advertisements. There are full-screen popups and autoplay ads with audio, both of which significantly hamper my experience with the website. To improve user experience, these two particular ad forms must be phased out and replaced with other more suitable advertisement formats.

To-Do

• Wiki-Wide
  • Templatize more tables
  • phase out the old "page template" pages
  • Identify and delete zero-width character + line break combo
  • Phase out See Also guns
  • Fixing the special pages
    • Reminder: Talk:Hellsinki still only has broken images
  • (fake) caliber is stupid
  • More detailed page review system, or at least elaborate on the difference between WIP and Incomplete
  • Fixing director categories
  • Broken files
  • Make the search bar only show "Internet Movie Firearms Database" (no hyphen and stuff after that)
  • Make the search bar not be case sensitive
  • Better sorting for talk-page-only storage pages
  • Disclaimer on IMFDB's reliability as a firearm research source
  • Bring in a more modern Wikipedia/Wikimedia Template suite (more navbox features, better infoboxes, hatnotes, notice boxes, etc.)

• Media pages
  • Fix and delete the ", The" redirects.
  • Mobile gaming curation proposal
  • Really, user-translated names? (compare w/ Wikipedia policies on naming films)
  • fixing the hitman pages (the state of the pages is in part my fault)

• Gun pages
  • Reorganize break-action weapon pages (where do i even start)
  • Better name for AKMSU? AKM Krinkov?
  • I messed up the Galil ACE identifications.
  • Samurai Edge individual page maybe? At least do something about the janky Beretta 96 page.
  • Schwarzlose submachine gun
  • Corrections about the Art Gallery Frommer Stop
  • How is the Saving Private Ryan Unertl scope mounted
  • Clean up MKb and StG pages

• Main Page
  • A site description
  • A better Featured Articles section
  • A Did you know section
  • Sister projects section
  • Links to other areas of IMFDB (e.g. Discord)

• Manufacturer pages
  • Chinese provincial military industries?

• Templates
  • Make Template:Media table start automatically adjust size

Perpetual Tasks/Vague Goals

• Small Arms Illustrated photoshops should all be clearly marked (but which ones are SAI photoshops?)
• Need some expert opinions on topics like European blank-firing gun manufacturers or Asian airsoft manufacturers

Chinese Gun Name Notes

• SDM is a brand of Italian importer Prima Armi S.r.l.

• "BAM" logo refers to Jiangsu Xinsu Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd.