Hey Guys,
I'm new to the forum. I'm a small time filmmaker in Toronto, Canada and need some help finding some blank firing or prop guns for sale, That can ship or is in Canada. I've checked into all rental companies and the rentals cost about 100 per gun a week with a minimum of a week rental. I'm looking for anything prop gun related (Leaning towards a Beretta Chrome) but anything will do.
Thanks,
TwilightFilmsInc
There is a lot of talk about airsoft here. There is a comment that it can still put an eye out. I would like to comment on that.
I have two Tokyo Marui gas blow back airsoft guns. Both came with two tiny pieces of plastic that you can use on two magazines for each gun. I'm sure you could find those little plastic things if you needed more..
The little plastic part 'fools' the gun into thinking that there are BB's in it, so it fires without having to even use BB's.
There are also plastic covers for the end of the barrel included with Tokyo Marui guns. They don't allow for a BB to go through, but a gas does. They are bright red but could be painted. The hand guns only come with a plug tho..
The other brands don't seem to come with these little ad ons, no little plastic bits for the magazines to be fooled, no plastic barrel end cover.
There is a gas blow back gun available in both 4.5mm 'airgun' form, and also available in airsoft form. It doesn't care whether or not BB's are in it to fire. I'm sure there are others as well. It's called the kwa mini Uzi, I believe there are other brands available that are the same gun. I believe there is also an identical umarex bad blowback 4.5mm airgun that would do the same. Very very good replica, the "blow back" hurts my cheek every time I shoot it. Very realistic, no gun powder is all.
There is a new(ish) product available. It's called a spitfire tracer usually. I have one called an acetech bifrost tracer unit. This device looks like a suppressor of flash hider, but it creates a simulation muzzle flash on gas blowback Airsoft guns. *However, as wonderful as this truely is and it does look very realistic! It requires a BB to go through it in order to work unfortunately, bringing us back to the issue of possibly putting an eye out on set.
I hope this helps!
P.S. go on an airsoft forum or find teams and airsoft Fields on Facebook. You could more than likely rent this stuff from players and they're stuff will likely be nicely worn for camera. The Tokyo Marui products are made of abs plastic more than the other brands by far, so they don't show as much wear that way fyi.. other brands are full metal but a camera can't tell. Easily stripped down and painted either way.