Guns is a two-part miniseries about the illegal weapons trade and its effects in Toronto, Canada. Directed by Sudz Sutherland, the miniseries aired on CBC Television in the summer of 2008.
The following weapons were used in the miniseries Guns:
Detectives Rick Merriweather (Shawn Doyle) and Ford Saunders (Lyriq Bent) of the Weapons Enforcement Unit, as well as other officers of the Toronto Police Service, use Glock 17s as their sidearms. A drug dealer that Conrod Shannon (Clé Bennett) shoots in an apartment stairwell also carries a Glock 17.
After a shootout on a busy downtown street results in the death of bystander Jessica Farrell (an incident based on the 2005 Boxing Day shooting), Reggie (Richard Chevolleau) attempts to flee the scene with a Ruger KP90 before being caught by Saunders.
Businessman Paul Duguid (Colm Feore) is shown practicing at a shooting range with a Webley Mk VI revolver. He later gives the revolver to the head of the Police Oversight Committee, Don Stafford (Jim Mezon) as a gift, calling it a "political contribution". A political controversy later erupts when Duguid is investigated for arms trafficking, reminiscient of a real-life case where the chairman of the Toronto Police Services Board resigned over the controversy surrounding the gift of a pistol from Para Ordinance Inc.
Sinclair Patterson (Barry Flatman) shows off a SIG P220 Sport when he meets Duguid (Colm Feore) and Stafford at the shooting range, calling it a "custom job". The pistol is later recovered from the apartment of Baby Dee (Dwain Murphy), linking him to the theft of Patterson's large gun collection.
In the first part of the miniseries, Conrod Shannon (Clé Bennett) pulls a Glock 19 from the glove compartment of Derek Wilmot's (K.C. Collins) car and inspects it. Detective Ford Saunders is also shown with a Glock 19 during the opening scene.
Conrod uses a Beretta 92FS Inox throughout the miniseries, with the exception of one scene where he carries a USP Compact instead. Inox pistols are also handled by other characters, including Duguid's business partner John Willison (Alan Van Sprang) and by Merriweather when he visits a gun show in Ohio.
Conrod's Beretta 92FS Inox becomes a "Non Gun" when he shoots a drug dealer in an apartment stairwell, likely because the close proximity between the actors makes a Non Gun safer to use.
A standard Beretta 92FS is inspected by Ford when he poses as a buyer in an undercover operation. The 92FS is later seen among the assortment of weapons on sale at a gun show.
A M1911 pistol is used by Kirby (Shane Smith), who hides it in his girlfriend's backpack following a shooting at his school. When the pistol is later discovered during a search, it is linked back to the Jessica Farrell shooting and Kirby's brother Baby Dee. Various chromed and M1911 models are also seen among the weapons being sold at a gun show and seized following police raids.
Baby Dee uses a SIG-Sauer P226 when he helps Conrod and Bobby Duguid (Gregory Smith) break into Sinclair Patterson's home. P226s are also among the weapons on sale at the Dayton gun show.
A Walther P99 with a two tone finish is used by Bobby (Gregory Smith) to shoot Patterson when he attempts to fight back. The P99 is later planted on Bobby's accomplice T-Bear (Balford Gordon) by Conrod in order to conceal Bobby's involvement with the robbery.
While posing as a weapons buyer, Merriweather (Shawn Doyle) is offered a MAC-10 by Boston, who claims that it was a "semi-auto" converted to full automatic.
When Merriweather (Shawn Doyle) asks for something "with a bit more kick" during the arms deal, Boston provides him with an AK-47 to examine. Straw purchasers are later shown buying AK-47s in Ohio.
Straw purchasers are shown buying an AKS-47 in Ohio. The stock has been removed, but it can still be identified as the AKS variant by the fact that the pivot point for the underfolding stock is still visible at the rear of the receiver.
A M60 machine gun is seen in a shipping container of surplus weapons at a U.S Army base that Paul Duguid is ostensibly helping to transfer to the Honduras, but in reality is illegally selling to African rebels.
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