Blank firing guns, and movie guns in general?

[Tak el dark hero]

I am getting to shoot a low buget tribute film to Ryuhei Kitamura. and Im wondering can you guys recomend so excellent sites where I can order blank firing guns and prop guns Im mostly looking for blank firing pistols. Im not sure what kind of guns they are exactially but Im looking for the pistols that only eject the shell outside the side of the gun and dont shoot any actual bullets then Im looking for guns that shoot blanks that come out the front and make a flash. Can anyone recomend so sites where I can order these two different prop guns?

[WingChunWomble]

Have a look at www.matthawkins.co.uk - They haveloads of information on prop guns and the like! I'm known as "Camclub" on there!

[vlade2002]

Look up in the internet for "good" Licenced armourer, they have all the advice and authorities on this subject. I worked on a few pictures recently and their was alot of gun fire (machine gun, pistols, bombs, and without the licenced armourer there, im afraid there is just too much that can go horribly wrong. Your puting peoples lives at risk and your own if you dont have the correct authorites around.

The only guy I can recommend at this point is John Fox -Film & Television Armourer - Weapons Specialist www.motionpicturearmourer.com/ (http://www.motionpicturearmourer.com/)

[whervruwillgo]

hey a couple of friends and i are making a film ourselves for school. we're using bb guns that don't have that orange stripe so it doesn't look fake in our movie. we want the guns to look real, but none of us feel like getting arrested. any ideas on what we can do?

[Squid Lips]

I can tell you, I directed a straight to video film last year with Lorenzo Lamas and the guns used for all but one day were paint ball guns. Hiring a legal gun/FX guy cost around $500 a day including blanks etc. But we used the paint guns because of the recoil action and then added flashed in on final cut pro. Looked really good.

[biomorph]

i agree.paint toy guns black,blank firing weapons are costly,require
supervision,and worst of all,wasteful.by this i mean you can go to the trouble of choreographing a wicked gunfight,only to have 90% of your gun flashes missing because the cameras shutter was closed.create your flashes in post-there is an excellent book called

Digital Guerilla-it comes with a c.d. that contains cool stock footage,one of which is a digital gun flash in multiple formats