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Revision as of 01:21, 2 June 2008
MT2008
- Name: Matt
- Age: 22
- Home Town: Chapel Hill, NC
- Occupation: Student (soon to graduate to...unemployment, most likely)
- Future Plans: Grad school (maybe), law school (less likely)
About Me
After losing my entire account and all the contributions I made to this site, I have finally returned. I'm still extremely upset that I lost everything I did (lesson: back everything up yourself, since you can never count on webmasters to do it for you), but fortunately, I have lots of screencaps and too much time on my hands, so I'm back. In addition to working on articles I had edited prior to the great crash, I'm also working on lots of new ones.
Anyway, I'm a soon-to-be graduate at a particular college in Maine (I was a History/Government major). I'm sort of a wannabe movie-gun librarian, and I love watching movies and seeing what types of weapons are in it. To be fair, I don't know as much about the classics, mostly just contemporary movies (Rafa, on the other hand, seems to be good with older films). Sometimes, I will buy movies on DVD, even terrible movies, if the guns are worth looking at - which sounds crazy, I know. Additionally, I tend to look for "behind the scenes" information on the guns in a movie - the company that supplied the weapons for the production, the armorers who built/handled the prop weapons on set, etc. I frequently use pictures of the actual prop guns in my articles, if I can find them (see for instance, my work on I Am Legend, for which I found pictures of the actual AR15 carbine and Mark-23 that were used in the movie).
Although I'm big into guns, movies, and guns in movies, I don't do much shooting in real life. I used to shoot skeet when I was in high school, but that was years ago now. I also go to the pistol range sometimes, but this, too, is pretty rare. Usually, I just buy guns for collector value...I have a very expensive pre-1989 Poly Tech AK which I've fired a total of 4 times in my basement. I am thinking about getting more into shooting once I graduate and I'm not in an environment where guns are frowned upon.
So that's that. Any other questions, please drop me a note on my "discussion" page.
Guns I Own
- Poly Tech AKS-762 (Chinese-made semi-auto AKM clone) - this is my baby
- Smith & Wesson 4506 - it actually belonged to my grandfather, but he gave it to me.
I also used to own a Taurus PT92 which I have since sold (it was a very old and well-used example) and a Ruger Mark III (another of my grandfather's guns which I sold).
My Favorite Firearms
(please note that I haven't fired or even held all of these necessarily - I just like the way many of them look in movies)
- AK-47/AKM/AK-74 series rifles - I am a Kalashnikov historian and well-versed in the different foreign-made derivatives. I'm particularly fond of Chinese Norinco examples (which probably isn't surprising because I own one) and Hungarian versions such as the AK-63 and AMD-65.
- Barret M82
- Benelli M4 Super 90
- Beretta 92 and Taurus PT92-series pistols - let's face it, these are quite possibly the most beautiful-looking semi-automatic pistols ever designed. Personally, I like the Taurus better because I like the frame-mounted safety, as opposed to the Beretta's less-accessible slide-mounted safety.
- Browning M2
- FN F2000
- FN Minimi
- Glock variants
- Heckler & Koch G36 series
- Heckler & Koch MP5 series
- Heckler & Koch USP (one of these will probably be my next handgun purchase)
- Jericho 941
- M16 rifle series (I especially like the look of the shorty 11.5-inch barrel models, like those used in Heat)
- MP40
- Makarov PM
- Mossberg M500 Bullpup
- PK/PKM machine gun series
- RPG-7
- SIG Pro SP2022
- SPAS 12 and SPAS 15
- Sig Sauer P220 pistol series (especially the P220 and P226)
- Steyr AUG
- Tokarev TT-33
- Uzi series (especially the Mini)
- Walther P99
Articles to which I've contributed include:
Movies
- 44 Minutes
- A History of Violence
- American History X (an all-time favorite of mine, not so much for the guns but the story and Edward Norton's performance)
- Blood Diamond
- The Corruptor
- Deep Rising (one of my "guilty pleasure" favorites - I love monster movies)
- The Departed
- Godzilla
- Goldeneye (one of my favorite Bond movies)
- Hard Boiled
- Hot Fuzz
- I Am Legend
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Lord of War
- The Matrix
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- RoboCop
- Romeo & Juliet
- The Siege
- Snatch (love this one)
- Training Day
- XXX 2: State of the Union (terrible movie, great guns)
Television
- Harry's Game
- Harsh Realm (under-appreciated TV series which I recently re-discovered on DVD)