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Message no. 1
From: Carsten Gehling <alvion@****.UNI2.DK>
Subject: Sv: Ares Predator/Robocop's gun
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:16:12 +0100
> Fra: Damon Harper <nomad74@*******.COM>
>
> I am watching Robocop(for the bagillionth time) and notice that
> Robocop's gun looks *exactly* like the pictured Ares Predator in the
> Gear section of the BBB.
> Does anyone know what kind of gun that Robocop uses? I'm sure =
it's
> probably doctored to look more futuristic, but does the basic frame =
and
> function look familiar to you gun-fiends?

Have you taken a look at the "Lone Star" source book? In there you find =
a SA/BF heavy pistol (can't remember the name) which must be the closest =
match for Robie's gun.

"Hey... Guns guns guns! Come on Sal! The Tigers are playing - tonight! I =
never miss a game..."

- Carsten

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Message no. 2
From: Damon Harper <nomad74@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Sv: Ares Predator/Robocop's gun
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 04:48:38 PST
>Have you taken a look at the "Lone Star" source book? In there you find
=
>a SA/BF heavy pistol (can't remember the name) which must be the
closest =
>match for Robie's gun.

The only Pistol in the LS book is the Rugar Thunderbolt. It's BF
only, and look far more streamlined than the Predator/Robo's gun.
No, my friends, I tell you I studied the gun in the movie and the one
in the book, and if the Robo's gun looked anymore like the Predator,
it'd have to be black and white, and made of paper.

"I have to go- somewhere there is a crime happening." :)



-Vagabond (nomad74@*******.com)
¹vag·a·bond \va-ge-bänd\ adj. 1: wandering, homeless
2: of, characteristic of, or leading the life of a vagrant
or tramp 3: leading an unsettled or irresponsible life

²vagabond n: one leading a vagabond life; esp : tramp


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Message no. 3
From: Mon goose <landsquid@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Sv: Ares Predator/Robocop's gun
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 11:27:54 PST
>> I am watching Robocop(for the bagillionth time) and notice that
>> Robocop's gun looks *exactly* like the pictured Ares Predator in the
Gear section of the BBB. Does anyone know what kind of gun that Robocop
uses? I'm sure it's probably doctored to look more futuristic, but does
the basic frame and function look familiar to you gun-fiends?
>

I'm not a gun feind, but a lot of my friends are. When the movie
cameout, I remeber hearing it (the actual prop gun) was a VERY heavily
modified Berrata of some sort that can actually go full auto.AFAIK,
thatand the Glock 17 are the only pistols with that function.
Apperently, something in the neighborhood of $50,000 was spent on the
gun (I don't recall if thats the collectors price or what the gunsmith
charged). This is all years old memory of rumour, though. Yes, the
picture for the Preadator is awfully similar. I always assumed the
artist was just um, "inspired by" the film.
I also think Robo had an awful lot of ammo - I remeber him cutting a
door in a wall with that gun in one long burst, but that may have been
the TV show.


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Message no. 4
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Sv: Ares Predator/Robocop's gun
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 01:28:04 +0000
In article <19980120192754.11713.qmail@*******.com>, Mon goose
<landsquid@*******.COM> writes
>I'm not a gun feind, but a lot of my friends are. When the movie
>cameout, I remeber hearing it (the actual prop gun) was a VERY heavily
>modified Berrata of some sort that can actually go full auto.AFAIK,
>thatand the Glock 17 are the only pistols with that function.

Plus the fUSSR Stechkin.

>I also think Robo had an awful lot of ammo - I remeber him cutting a
>door in a wall with that gun in one long burst, but that may have been
>the TV show.

Must have been. Mind you, he got something like fifty rounds out of one
magazine in RCI when he shot up the drug lab...

What can I say? The hero only runs out of ammo when dramatically
convenient ;)

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praiseworthy...

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Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Sv: Ares Predator/Robocop's gun
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 11:53:03 +0100
Paul J. Adam said on 1:28/21 Jan 98...

> What can I say? The hero only runs out of ammo when dramatically
> convenient ;)

As in a Lucky Luke comic: "Don't you ever have to reload?"
"After every story."

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