VLTOR --- Fortis (aka Bren 10) & SHOT Show

[LoveMyXds]

Oh, and I forgot, he had a Detonics Combat Master too! RATBADSTARD!

[ellis4538]

How can the new mags be interchangeable with the old...there weren't any old magazines?!  LOL!

Richard

[twyacht]

As a former "unpaid" extra during the Miami Vice days, and in a few episodes, I can tell you the firearm aspects of the show were practiced several times before blanks were loaded. They had a security firm out of California, and a Ft. Knox trailer where all the pistols, rifles, shotguns, were kept. Under a "really" armed couple of big burly dudes, and a no nonsense firearms consulting firm. Also used by Blade Runner, and a host of other war, western, and action films.

The famous "shooter" chauffer, in one episode, was actually one of those consultants. Tom has the link, I would have to dig to find it.
He knows which one it is.

They were religious about mags, brass, round counts, vs. rounds issued, after every scene. Even with blanks. Scenes would stop if discrepancies were found. Safety, safety, safety for us lowly extras as well, was stressed without question.

They could care less about the BMW they launched into the ICW, or the Mercedes they trashed on Rickenbacker Causeway, but the guns were treated very seriously.

Scarface was the filmed by the same folks, and that was a real treat to skip school, and get a role as an extra.

Too bad that firm wasn't hired when they filmed "The Crow" where Brandon Lee was needlessly shot by a squib, in Wilmington,NC.

I always thought Tubb's 12g, was nice. It had those "fancy" pistol grips....

[LoveMyXds]

As a former "unpaid" extra during the Miami Vice days, and in a few episodes, I can tell you the firearm aspects of the show were practiced several times before blanks were loaded. They had a security firm out of California, and a Ft. Knox trailer where all the pistols, rifles, shotguns, were kept. Under a "really" armed couple of big burly dudes, and a no nonsense firearms consulting firm. Also used by Blade Runner, and a host of other war, western, and action films.

The famous "shooter" chauffer, in one episode, was actually one of those consultants. Tom has the link, I would have to dig to find it.
He knows which one it is.

They were religious about mags, brass, round counts, vs. rounds issued, after every scene. Even with blanks. Scenes would stop if discrepancies were found. Safety, safety, safety for us lowly extras as well, was stressed without question.

They could care less about the BMW they launched into the ICW, or the Mercedes they trashed on Rickenbacker Causeway, but the guns were treated very seriously.

Scarface was the filmed by the same folks, and that was a real treat to skip school, and get a role as an extra.

Too bad that firm wasn't hired when they filmed "The Crow" where Brandon Lee was needlessly shot by a squib, in Wilmington,NC.

I always thought Tubb's 12g, was nice. It had those "fancy" pistol grips....

I remember the episode you are talking about, he wasn't a chauffeur, he was an assasin and he is the guy who killed Crockett's partner before Tubbs. Perfect Mozambique from an appendix concealed carry in less than two seconds... Mind blowing for the 80s.... I heard Michael Mann, the director was a real member of the gun culture, and it shows in that Tom Cruise movie with Jaime Fox and Thief with James Cann....

Thank you so much for the background info on Vice.... Cheesey clothes, good gun handling... Plus any show with G. Gordon Liddy, the original bad ass G. Has got to be good!

[billt]

Plus any show with G. Gordon Liddy, the original bad ass G. Has got to be good!

I liked the episode with Lee Iaccoca. He played the "Commissioner Of Parks". They were going to blow up a shack and they had to consult him. His classic line to Crockett was, "Hey, If you guys need any help, I'm pretty good with a gun."    Bill T.

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[LoveMyXds]

I always thought Tubb's 12g, was nice. It had those "fancy" pistol grips....

Tubbs had a Chief's Special and a ghetto sawed off.... Crockett had a Bren 10 and a Combat Master... But Zito and the Switek always had ARs and 1911s.... Crockett had quality, Tubbs didnt have to prove anything till the shit hit the fan, but the comic relief was the best armed of the bunch!

[tombogan03884]

 What did Gina and Trudy carry ?  

The assassin was Jim Zubiena, found an AWESOME clip of it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2Il86-38A

And Collateral.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeNPJ0fgWVY&feature=related

[LoveMyXds]

Tina and Trudy carried severe emotional damage from loving Crockett and Tubbs, and that makes a much more intimidating weapon than anything in the boys arsenal...

The girls also had a new composite armor technology for head protection, six cans of Aqua Net hairspray combined with overteased, overlofty and overproccesed hair. Many girls from Saugus Massachusetts used the same technology into the early 2000s....

Great job finding the clips Tom!

[tombogan03884]

 My Google Fu was strong last night 

[Michael Bane]

My miniscule contribution to MIAMI VICE subculture came when a friend of mine from the old rock and roll days in NYC got a gig writing scripts for Michael Mann. He called me up and confessed that he knew nothing — nothing! — about guns and shooting and he needed somthing to wow Mr. Mann. Recalling one of my pet peeves, I said, "Let me tell you the difference between 'concealment' and 'cover...'" I went on to talk about the concept of the "sniper shot," a human system reset into the medulla oblongotta, roughly through the roof of the mouth. In the episode my freind wrote, in one scene a evil Everglades guy is shooting at Sonny...bad guy takes cover behind a door...Sonny looks at the door, shrugs and shoots a group into its center...evil Everglades guys falls out dead. Next scene, Sonny faces another evil Everglades guy has a child hostage...he says, "If I so much as flinch, it'll blow her head of"...or something like that...Sonny takes careful aim at the roof of the miscreant's mouth, says (classically) "Maybe...you....won't..." BANG! "...flinch..." A similar scene ended up in the movie remake...

On SG we spent some time with Mike Gibbons, who was one of Michael Mann's top armorers...GREAT stories. Mike G. retired, and these days Mann has been using my pal USPSA/3-Gun Grand Master Taran Butler to ramp up his talent.

Can't wait to get my Bren Ten...heaven knows I've been waiting long enough!!!!

Michael B