Ruger Mini-14

The Ruger Mini-14/AC556 can be seen in the following movies and television series used by the following actors:

Blued Ruger Mini-14 Standard Model Semiautomatic Rifle (Pre-2005) with 30 round magazine - 5.56mm

Ruger AC556 Carbine - 5.56mm. This is the full automatic version of the Mini 14 with a distinctive Barrel and bayonet lug. Ruger also offers the Mini-14 GB ("Government Barrel" Model) which is a semi automatic only version of the AC556 for Law Enforcement and (some) civilian sales. The Full Auto AC556 has a distinctive Auto Selector Switch on the back of the receiver that the Semi Auto Ruger Mini 14 does not.

Stainless Steel Ruger AC556 Carbine with Full Stock - 5.56mm

Stainless Steel Ruger Mini-14 GB-F ("Government Barrel, Folding Stock") - 5.56mm

Stainless Steel Mini-14 GB in an Aftermarket Choate Folding Stock, as used by the Military of Bermuda - 5.56mm

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Current production Mini-14 "Ranch Rifle"; Inline Wooden Stock and Blued Finish - 5.56mm. This is the production model after 2005 with changes to the receiver, the front sight placement and rear sight.

Ruger Mini-14

Film

• Ironbar in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

• Geena Davis as Samantha Caine in The Long Kiss Goodnight

• Prison guards in Face/Off

• A Prison Guard in Boondock Saints

• Some of Travis' henchmen in Lethal Weapon 3

• Rob Lowe as Paul Barish in Tommy Boy

• Cuervo Jones in Escape from LA

• M.C. Gainey as Earl in Breakdown

• John Travolta as Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins in Broken Arrow

• We Own the Night

• The Dark Knight

• Snake Eater

• Crocodile Dundee II

• Drug dealers in Elite Squad

• Gang members in S.W.A.T.

• Redfoot's henchmen in The Usual Suspects

• The 51st State

Television

• Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in 24

• Wielded by numerous members of The A-Team

• CSI: Miami

Video Games

• Can be used by the Player Character, Tommy Vercetti in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Ruger Mini-30

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Stainless Steel Ruger Mini-30, Chambered in 7.62x39mm, with a shortened and modified barrel with Flash-hider/Muzzle-break combination device and several 30 round magazines.

The Ruger Mini-30 was introduced in 1987 to used the 7.62x39 (AK47) round. The Mini-14 was a popular hunting rifle but sometimes the .223 Remington/5.56mm round was not approved for hunting, thus the Mini-30 was developed so that hunters could use a 'legal' .30 caliber round. Like the Mini-14, the Mini-30 is not particularly accurate for precise hunting shots, and is used primarily as a utility 'varmint' gun. Essentially identical to the Mini-14, it only differs in the fact that it is chambered in 7.62x39mm. The relative barrel thickness and fatter, more dynamically curved high-capacity magazines are the easiest way to tell them apart.