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[[Image:Uzi.jpg|thumb|none|500px|IMI Uzi 9mm]] | [[Image:Uzi.jpg|thumb|none|500px|IMI Uzi 9mm]] | ||
[[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-3.1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The gunshop owner ([[Dick Miller]]) retrieves the Uzi from a shelf. Note that the short barrel is installed, which if live would not be legal to sell over the counter, even in 1984, thus it is assumed that this is the dummy short barrel that came with the Uzi Carbines for 'display purposes'.]] | [[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-3.1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The gunshop owner ([[Dick Miller]]) retrieves the Uzi from a shelf. Note that the short barrel is installed, which if live would not be legal to sell over the counter, even in 1984, thus it is assumed that this is the dummy short barrel that came with the Uzi Carbines for 'display purposes'.]] | ||
[[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-23.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Terminator whips out his (now full auto) Uzi at the Tech Noir night club. | [[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-23.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Terminator whips out his (now full auto) Uzi at the Tech Noir night club.]]<!-- Are you positive the prop was an open-bolt Uzi? Closed-bolt retrofits have a much, much higher rate of fire, and the sound effects in the movie seem to indicate a closed-bolt retrofit (original open-bolt Uzis actually tend to shoot only 450 to 500 shots per minute, despite the specification being 600 per minute, while closed-bolt retrofits end up around 900 to 1000 shots per minute). Of course, the SPAS-12 has goofy full-auto sound effects, too, in many scenes, so it's entirely possible for the sound effects to have nothing to do with reality. I'd say only only add the uzi info back in, if it can be confirmed for sure.[[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-24.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Terminator fires his Uzi at Kyle Reese. Note how surprised his face looks.]] | ||
[[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-24.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Terminator fires his Uzi at Kyle Reese. Note how surprised his face looks.]] | |||
[[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-29.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Terminator fires his Uzi at Sarah Connor.]] | [[Image:TERMSE_SIDEA-29.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Terminator fires his Uzi at Sarah Connor.]] | ||
Revision as of 00:21, 17 July 2011
The Terminator is the 1984 science fiction film directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a killer cyborg sent by machines from the future with the sole mission of killing the woman who will give birth to the leader of the future human resistance. Arnold Schwarzenegger would reprise the role in the sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2004) and as well as appear via CGI in 2009's Terminator Salvation.
The following weapons were used in the film The Terminator:
AMT Hardballer .45 Longslide
The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) acquires an AMT Hardballer Longslide with a primitive laserlock sight (a one-off made by someone from a company that would later become SureFire) in addition to several other weapons from a gunshop shortly after his arrival from 2029. He first uses it to terminate two women from a phone book who share the name Sarah Connor. When he arrives at the real Connor's (Linda Hamilton) apartment, he is seen with it when confronting her roommate, Ginger Ventura (Bess Motta). Upon tracking Sarah to the Tech Noir nightclub, the Terminator loses this weapon when Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) intervenes in the attempted termination, at which point he switches to his IMI Uzi.
IMI Uzi
Another weapon the Terminator acquires from the Gun Shop at the start of the film is an IMI Uzi 9mm Carbine. In the sequence, the gun store has the weapon on display with the short dummy barrel installed, which was done sometimes to entice buyers, however the Uzi Model A or B was always sold with a 16" barrel per legal requirements. James Cameron mentioned in the magazine "Soldier of Fortune" that he assumed that the Terminator had converted the Uzi and the AR-180 into full auto weapons in his hotel room (which included sawing down the 16" barrel of the Uzi). He uses it mainly in the Tech Noir nightclub, when Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) interferes with his attempts to terminate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton). After losing his .45, the Terminator unloads several rounds at the nightclub, killing quite a few innocent bystanders, but fails to hit Sarah, or Kyle. He loses the weapon when Kyle uses his Ithaca to blast him out of the club's window.
