Con Air: Difference between revisions
Con Air: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Con Air: Difference between revisions
[[Image:ConAirM16A3-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Cyrus aims down his M16A3.]]
[[Image:ConAirM16A3-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Cyrus aims down his M16A2.]]
[[Image:ConAirM16A3-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Diamond Dog firing his M16A3.]]
[[Image:ConAirM16A3-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Diamond Dog firing his M16A2.]]
[[Image:ConAirM16A3-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Cyrus shoots out a plane door lock with the M16A3. Note how 5 shells are in mid-flight, showing it is a fully-automatic gun.]]
[[Image:ConAirM16A3-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Cyrus shoots out a plane door lock with the M16A2. Note how 5 shells are in mid-flight, showing it is a fully-automatic gun.]]
==Rubber M16 prop==
==Rubber M16 prop==
Revision as of 17:25, 31 March 2010
The following weapons were used in the film Con Air:
The prison guards U.S. Marshals and DEA agents arm themselves with SIG-Sauer P226 handguns. The convicts use several P226s captured from the guards, most notabley Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich), who steals the co-pilot's SIG-Sauer from him after he removed it from the lock box.
The cons take several M16A2 assault rifles from the weapons stash. The rifles fire fully-automatic, which means that they are actually M16A2 upper receivers placed on full-auto lower M16A1 receivers, typical of all Hollywood "M16A2" rifles.
When Cyrus throws down his empty M16A2, it changes to a rubber prop featuring the M16A1 style sights and lacking a forward assist, shell deflector, and magazine fencing. This means that the prop was mostly likely cast from a civilian AR15 Sporter-1 rifle fitted with A2-style handguards.
When Cyrus (John Malkovich) takes the guns out of the weapons hold, a few of the cons use Def Tech 1315 37mm launchers, used to look like HE launchers.
One of the cartel members (Thomas Rosales Jr.) uses a Colt Woodsman with both a modified slide and barrel to thread a suppressor, commonly known as the "Assassin" model. Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) comments that the cons would hear the shot, so he threads a suppressor on it. When Poe dispatches all the cartel members, he takes the gun for his own use, before dropping it diving from an explosion.
