Gun names/brands

Sassee · Sep 4, 2007

Okay, since my work has decided to block every gun site known to man, can everyone list some random gun names/brands? (ex - Glock, Magnum) It's a bit cliche but I need a gun name for one of my characters, and I'm not very familiar with firearms in general. Thx!

C.bronco · Sep 4, 2007

Mauser
Enfield
Winchester
Smith & Wesson
Colt
I'll have to think of more... seem to have a mental block today, can't think of other names.
Wait! M1 Garand

RumpleTumbler · Sep 4, 2007

Sig Sauer 220 (45 semi auto)
Smith & Wesson 686 (357 revolver)

Those are just two I've had.

rugcat · Sep 4, 2007

Handgun or rifle? Or shotgun?

JamieFord · Sep 4, 2007

If your character is using a gun and you're not familiar with them, you might consider a trip to your local firing range or gun club. You can handle several, rent the one you picture your character using, and fire it a few times. It would probably add details, sight, feel, smell--that you might not think of on your own.

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Sep 4, 2007

Gatling
Browning
Taurus
Arcus
Lahti
Walther
Korth
Beretta
Tanfoglio
Viper
Barak
Desert Eagle
Tokarev
Bren Ten

C.bronco · Sep 4, 2007

Browning that's the one I was trying to remember. Thanks Ol' Fashioned girl. This thread has been needling at me all morning.

Sassee · Sep 4, 2007

rugcat said:
Handgun or rifle? Or shotgun?

Any and all. Bring 'em on. Just trying to get a feel for a name first and see which one has that "zing" to it.

JamieFord said:
If your character is using a gun and you're not familiar with them, you might consider a trip to your local firing range or gun club. You can handle several, rent the one you picture your character using, and fire it a few times. It would probably add details, sight, feel, smell--that you might not think of on your own.

My husband and his sister's hubby are very into guns, so I'm pretty covered there

Can't really talk to them at work tho and it's one of those things that's going to bother me all day until I get it figured out. AW to the rescue!

On personal experience - I've shot an SKS before but that's about it. For some reason the smaller guns scare me more... more recoil or something... haven't tried shooting them yet (I know, it makes no sense to me either).

And I hate to say it but I'm one of those girls that can't readily identify cars/guns/whatever by sight. I'm usually the one that goes "what kind of car is that?" It's the same with guns. Just not very familiar with names...

Ol' Fashioned Girl · Sep 4, 2007

Ruger
Webley
Zigana
Wildley
Sphinx
Star
Vektor
Namby

See something you like, lemme know and I'll look up more detail.

Meerkat · Sep 4, 2007

Sassee, it would help us suggest the right brandnames if you could say what size and capability, how it fits in the WIP, for example one of the following:

hand held revolver
hand held automatic
single shot rifle, such as a hunting rifle
shotgun
semi-automatic rifle
submachine gun
machine gun

Higgins · Sep 4, 2007

Ancient Rifle

Meerkat said:
Sassee, it would help us suggest the right brandnames if you could say what size and capability, how it fits in the WIP, for example one of the following:

hand held revolver
hand held automatic
single shot rifle, such as a hunting rifle
shotgun
semi-automatic rifle
submachine gun
machine gun

bolt-action, Stripper-clip-fed, zero-ed with bayonet: Mosin-Nagant Rifle.

Sassee · Sep 4, 2007

Meerkat said:
Sassee, it would help us suggest the right brandnames if you could say what size and capability, how it fits in the WIP, for example one of the following:

hand held revolver
hand held automatic
single shot rifle, such as a hunting rifle
shotgun
semi-automatic rifle
submachine gun
machine gun

The WIP is not fleshed out yet. Right now this guy is just manifesting himself in my head. So far I know he has a "collection" that takes up half his basement and he's got a mischevious sort of personality - smiles a lot, was one of those kids who pulled major pranks in school, knows a lot of jokes, likes to think of himself as a ladies' man, bullshitter in the extreme (the story gets bigger and better every time he tells it sort of thing). I'm gonna say he has years of experience with guns, but it would be the informal sort of experience like hunting and target practice rather than something disciplined like military.

You know, come to think of it, he probably has a few more "toys" besides the ordinary gun in that collection...

Meerkat · Sep 4, 2007

Thanks Sassee,

I had the following toys, which would seem to fit your MC's "borderline-jerk" character as well, before my then fiancee asked me to get rid of the whole arsenal:

A Remington model 870 12 gage shotgun (very common) but sawed off to 18 & 1/2 inches barrel length and fitted with a plastic combat grip vs factory wood stock, a shell-holding strap and no sport plug. Serious weapon, common ammo that (especially when sawed off) does not require aiming.

A Ruger model 10/22 autoloader (semiautomatic) rifle (cute civilian knockoff of the army's World War 2 M1 carbine), slowly being reworked with drop in machined parts, wooden grips and a cylinder drum magazine to become a submachine gun. More exotic than serious...common .22 caliber ammo, not lethal until delivered this redundantly.

A police issue Baretta 9mm automatic pistol with sponge grip. Serious weapon, common and lethal ammo.

My first gun, a tiny, Sterling Arms caliber .22 automatic pistol...I had this in my pocket and slept with this under my pillow, overseas in my former young, idiotic life. Not a serious weapon at all.

I hope your MC will redeem himself at some point....or go ninja!

Sassee · Sep 4, 2007

Meerkat said:
I hope your MC will redeem himself at some point....or go ninja!

He's a pretty good guy at heart and is usually friendly, he just likes to exaggerate and have "fun". Like someone's wild little kid that you can't help but love anyway even though you know he'll blow something up when you're not looking. Though, I don't know that he'll be in the spotlight all by himself. He needs a counterweight of some sort, so he'll probably end up being one half of a team.

Mike Martyn · Sep 4, 2007

The baby Glock seems to be the choice of sh*t rat's every where. It's a nine mm automatic that one of my nastier characters has come to love.

Eight in the clip and one in the pipe and you can buy a laser sight that slips right on.

That said I know zip about guns except the single shot 22 rifle I had as a boy. Those were sold specifically as "boys guns" and were considered a suitable birthday gift for the average 12 year old country boy. I used to pot rabbits from my bedroom window.

Mike Martyn · Sep 4, 2007

Sassee said:
The WIP is not fleshed out yet. Right now this guy is just manifesting himself in my head. So far I know he has a "collection" that takes up half his basement.....rest deleted

My next door neighbours had just such a collection. It filled their entire basement. About 200 + guns, revolvers, pistols, a lot of military arms, Bren guns and Sten guns, M1s, M15s, Armilite this and that but my favourite of all was the Sharp's buffalo gun from the 1860! Not much use anymore there being something of a shortage of buffalo these days.

I once lived in a steel mill town when they were still decomisioning stuff from W1 and WW2. Workers were always hauling stuff off the line and and carting it home. The most extreme example was a neighbpour who had a WW2 artillery piece in his front yard for decoration. It fired six inch shells. Fortunately the breech block had been welded in place!

JB_Finesse · Sep 4, 2007

Benelli (part of Beretta, makes shotguns and weird looking rifles)

Kel-Tec (makes small handguns, semi-auto rifles [including a "pistol" that's just a radically shortened rifle with no stock], and everything's polymer)

Springfield Armory (one of the few companies that still makes M1 Garand rifles, it also makes 1911 clones, the XD [pretty much a Glock with an extra safety], and M1A rifles [semi-auto M14's])

NORINCO (big Chinese company that makes everything from replica 1887 lever-action shotguns to AK-47 clones, weapons made by them can't be purchased directly from them in the USA but are common used, sometimes imported from Canada)

Glocks come in these calibers: .380 (Not in the US for a very weird reason), 9x19mm Luger, .40 S&W, .357 SIG (around the same power as a basic .357 Magnum cartridge), 10mm Auto, .45 ACP, and .45 GAP (pretty much a shortened .45 ACP).

Sassee · Sep 5, 2007

For some reason the thought of two brothers named Smith and Wesson amuses me... and now my hubby's sister has Ruger on her baby names list, so I probably get to cross that one off...

Thanks all

I'll tumble a few of these around in my head for a bit and see what I come up with.

GeorgeK · Sep 5, 2007

Sassee said:
- I've shot an SKS before but that's about it....

Ah yes, the Chinese knock off of the AK-47. (Only without the 30 round bananna clip. Standard is a 5 round magazine) It's a good little varmint rifle, accurate to about 50- 75 yards, not accurate enough for a sniper, but a very common farm rifle. Just about every farmer around here has one.

JB_Finesse · Sep 5, 2007

GeorgeK said:
Ah yes, the Chinese knock off of the AK-47.

Wrong on both counts. Originally Russian (though it has been manufactured by rascal Chinamen), and the only similarities to the AK-47 are that it's semi auto and uses the same round. Not to mention that it was designed two years earlier.

Gun names/brands

Sassee

Momma Wolf

C.bronco

I have plans...

RumpleTumbler

Loves Joni Mitchell

rugcat

Lost in the Fog

JamieFord

giving resonant directions

Ol' Fashioned Girl

Hand? What hand?

C.bronco

I have plans...

Sassee

Momma Wolf

Ol' Fashioned Girl

Hand? What hand?

Meerkat

Claims the loan was a gift

Higgins

Sassee

Momma Wolf

Meerkat

Claims the loan was a gift

Sassee

Momma Wolf

Mike Martyn

Mike Martyn

JB_Finesse

Sassee

Momma Wolf

GeorgeK

ever seeking

JB_Finesse