I work in the film business providing horses, livestock, wagons and such. Therefore I work primarily on period type pieces but not exclusively. I'm friends with several movie armorers which maintain class III FFL's for film work. They keep fairly extensive collections and outsource special orders through rental agreements. On regular TV shows and movies there is no live ammunition allowed, only blanks. Nowadays with computers, they can add the flash and noise in post production. Any auto loader has to be modified to function with blank ammo. These guys sometimes chop up some pretty good firearms for this purpose, hey we're talking $$$ here. Of course there are the props guns too. I personally have a rubber M-16 molded off of the real thing selector switch and all. You have to be about a foot away to tell it's fake. On The Postman, you might notice a large recoiless rifle mounted on a carriage. It was built custom for the show and functions on propane. One loud sucker. No telling how much it cost the production company but it was very convincing, even in person. On Gods and Generals and The Alamo they had some cast aluminum cannons made. Good thing, too it sure saved my horses from having to pull the real thing (really heavy). In conclusion, they can procure or make pretty much what the script calls for while dodging all of the legal issues. Oh, there's lots of 'smoke and mirrors' too.
Where's the television loophole for Automatics?
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