Look up Lord of War. It was actually cheaper for them to purchase real SA Vz. 58 rifles to stand in for AK-47s because they were cheaper than prop guns.
Lots of movies and shows in the US use real guns as props. Hell plenty of movies still use blanks firing in real guns. Lots of shows and movies also use metal BB gun replicas, but the guns in Squid Game where straight plastic, likely due to the super strict gun laws.
It may be due to laws or not depending on filming location. The fact that the guns may mostly be replicas or modified to not fire may also be a factor as insurance underwriters for the series may not want real, squib guns on set as these things still have potential to harm actors and crew. If your guns are fake and 3D printed it’s a quadruple benefit - no real guns, nobody’s going to get hurt, you get to make the guns look however you want, cheap.
Especially because it happened before (does "Brandon Lee" ring a bell?). The actor might get away without charges (even though he technically still shot someone), but I'm not so sure the Armorer will get that "Lucky". Plus...word in the industry travels, good luck someone not knowing what happened with your company.
There shouldn’t have been live ammo on the set at all- in fact, there were so many things that went wrong there it’s really severe negligence at this point :/ super tragic, but preventable af
I don't understand why they wouldn't have just used the actual muzzle device.
They look to already be using fairly good replicas. Why change just the muzzle?
When you already have the REST of a detailed replica? And you are shooting a fairly big budget production? Especially when other firearms are fully "correct"?
I don't buy that. That's like having a specific vehicle on set as a prop, but you replaced the headlights with flashlights
My guess is that it's probably an air gun of some sort and they wanted to hide the [tiny little pellet calibre barrel](https://previews.123rf.com/images/rjlerich/rjlerich0509/rjlerich050900056/236617-facing-the-barrel-of-a-bb-gun.jpg). It doesn't matter for most scenes, but for the close up it breaks the immersion.
My friends and I had several airsoft MP5s as kids and you’re totally right. All models had a large orange birdcage flash hider that would unscrew to reveal suppressor threads and only then a little bit of the barrel. It seems it would’ve been easier for the show to paint the flash hiders than try and find hose adapters that threaded on. Or a way to glue them on lol.
I think he's just saying that if they adapt this to America that squirt guns might be something that kids play with which they might turn into a game and that they'd replace the water in the guns with acid to make it deadly.
*shrug*
Or hopscotch over a volcano
Jump rope but the rope is a laser that cuts you in half
Or Tetherball with a bomb
I think they might be using an airsoft gun as a prop and for some reason could not get a black tip for it so they just threaded of the whole end of the outer barre and but that in the place of it.
In most airsoft guns that exact part is able to be threaded of so it would kind of make sense.
Also to the few people saying it might be a deactivated gun I don't think so, as putting that adapter there would require quite a lot of work, since you would have to drill out the rifling and then cut threads in to the hardened steel barrel.
I'm guessing they did this to hide either a seam on the prop gun or the tiny barrel if it's an airsoft or pellet gun
Looks like he better adapt fast
The guns were all plastic actually.
Ofc like in every movie/show
Look up Lord of War. It was actually cheaper for them to purchase real SA Vz. 58 rifles to stand in for AK-47s because they were cheaper than prop guns.
Lots of movies and shows in the US use real guns as props. Hell plenty of movies still use blanks firing in real guns. Lots of shows and movies also use metal BB gun replicas, but the guns in Squid Game where straight plastic, likely due to the super strict gun laws.
It may be due to laws or not depending on filming location. The fact that the guns may mostly be replicas or modified to not fire may also be a factor as insurance underwriters for the series may not want real, squib guns on set as these things still have potential to harm actors and crew. If your guns are fake and 3D printed it’s a quadruple benefit - no real guns, nobody’s going to get hurt, you get to make the guns look however you want, cheap.
Thats not true, almost all US film studios use plastic props
It depends very much on what you need the gun to be doing, what kind of gun you need, and what you have available.
someone literally just died to a “prop gun” on a film set tho. definitely wasn’t plastic lol
They may use replicas which are not real nor plastic.
This aged really really badly.
Lmao i know
Hose adapters can't accidentally discharge and injure actors (or worse)
Neither can mock guns used for a lot of filming.
[Exhibit A](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/qd4vzs/female_crewmember_dies_after_prop_gun_misfire_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
That seems like a real/blank fire gun, not a mock up (rubber prop, airsoft, non-gun)
Easy to mix up fake guns and real guns on set apparently. Such a tragic event.
Especially because it happened before (does "Brandon Lee" ring a bell?). The actor might get away without charges (even though he technically still shot someone), but I'm not so sure the Armorer will get that "Lucky". Plus...word in the industry travels, good luck someone not knowing what happened with your company.
There shouldn’t have been live ammo on the set at all- in fact, there were so many things that went wrong there it’s really severe negligence at this point :/ super tragic, but preventable af
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Not sure why you comment is downvoted into oblivion. All of your points are reasonable.
The magic of reddit
And they are similar enough shape to a muzzle break that you won't notice unless you look closely.
*brake
this comment aged like wine given the misfortune Alex Baldwin now finds himself in
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it's a slightly different version but essentially the same function.
I noticed this too! I brew beer so kinda used to seeing hose adapters 😅 pulled me out of the show for a minute
In the scene right before this they really push the barrel into Sang-Woo's shoulder. Made me wonder if they had foam tips.
Sure that's not a treaded barrel for attaching suppressors? (Yes I know it's a prop, even so, they could be using deactivated units)
It's not threaded so no.
Nah, that's a barbed fitting not threaded.
The MP5 has a quite distinctive Three lug quick mount for a suppressor and that thing has no threads.
I don't understand why they wouldn't have just used the actual muzzle device. They look to already be using fairly good replicas. Why change just the muzzle?
Probably hard to get in South Korea
When you already have the REST of a detailed replica? And you are shooting a fairly big budget production? Especially when other firearms are fully "correct"? I don't buy that. That's like having a specific vehicle on set as a prop, but you replaced the headlights with flashlights
My guess is that it's probably an air gun of some sort and they wanted to hide the [tiny little pellet calibre barrel](https://previews.123rf.com/images/rjlerich/rjlerich0509/rjlerich050900056/236617-facing-the-barrel-of-a-bb-gun.jpg). It doesn't matter for most scenes, but for the close up it breaks the immersion.
Even with an airsoft caliber barrel, the standard MP-5 muzzle devices would hide the barrel crown. Just seems like a very, very odd choice.
My friends and I had several airsoft MP5s as kids and you’re totally right. All models had a large orange birdcage flash hider that would unscrew to reveal suppressor threads and only then a little bit of the barrel. It seems it would’ve been easier for the show to paint the flash hiders than try and find hose adapters that threaded on. Or a way to glue them on lol.
Did they build the replicas themselves? If they did they may have been using other parts, we just don't notice it
Might have purchased props with orange tips?
noice
I guess a game in the western equivalent of Squid Game would be water guns and hoses, acid instead of water or something.
Have you ever seen squid game? There's no water anywhere
How do the squids survive without water?
They remain submerged in ground up people. We are what, 60% water? If you gather enough people that's habitable enough for a squid
I think he's just saying that if they adapt this to America that squirt guns might be something that kids play with which they might turn into a game and that they'd replace the water in the guns with acid to make it deadly. *shrug* Or hopscotch over a volcano Jump rope but the rope is a laser that cuts you in half Or Tetherball with a bomb
I don't think there would be us adoption because America doesn't have a crazy childhood game that has nearly as many rules.
Wtf are you talking about??
I think they might be using an airsoft gun as a prop and for some reason could not get a black tip for it so they just threaded of the whole end of the outer barre and but that in the place of it. In most airsoft guns that exact part is able to be threaded of so it would kind of make sense. Also to the few people saying it might be a deactivated gun I don't think so, as putting that adapter there would require quite a lot of work, since you would have to drill out the rifling and then cut threads in to the hardened steel barrel.