Gun Accessories: Difference between revisions

Often, more distinctly fictional devices are present, like X-ray scanners, [[Modern Warfare (Video Game)|heartbeat monitors]], or [[Power Glows|pointless glowing whatsits]]. A classic is a visible ammo counter, popularized by ''[[Alien (Film)|Aliens]]'' and often used by video games to minimize the HUD. A recent trend in video games is to depict accessory parts as quick-swappable; any potential issues with having to re-zero scopes are glossed over, due to [[Rule of Cool]].

 

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== Card Games ==

* ''[[Munchkin (Tabletop Game)|The Good, the Bad & the Munchkin]]'' has the Seven-Gun, which is a Six-Gun with a tiny single-shot pistol attached to the barrel. In addition, there's also the enhancers which can change it into My Grandpappy's Steam-Powered Seven-Gun With Unlimited Ammo.

 

 

== Film ==

* Another parody was in ''Beverly Hills Cop III'', which featured an advert for the "Annihilator 2000," a comically over-featured weapon including such extras as a phone, fax machine, CD player and microwave oven.

* In ''[[Terminator]]'', [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] used an AMT Hardballer Longslide equipped with a very early "Laserlock" sight; the prop actually worked, though it ran off a battery pack taped to his back and was triggered using a switch in his other hand.

** ''[[Golden Eye Wii (Video Game)|Golden Eye Wii]]'' adds an array of ''[[Modern Warfare]]''-esque gun add-ons, like underbarrel grenade launchers, reflex sights, ACOG scopes, and more.

* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' had a variety of interesting and odd weapon add-ons, from the relatively normal (the Falcon 2 had a laser module and optional sight or silencer) to the dangerous (the Dragon's internal proximity mine can't be popular with troops when it goes wrong) to the awesome (the Superdragon's [[Game Breaker|underbarrel repeating grenade launcher]]) to the downright weird (the self-aiming system in the CMP-150). Plus the MagSec 4 pistol was a copy of the modified pistol from ''Robocop''.

* ''[[Resonance of Fate]]'' took weapon-attachments [[Up to Eleven]] - Not only can you mount all your weapons with bigger magazines, various scopes and barrel-extensions, but higher-level extensions have, themselves, ports for FURTHER extensions. Towards the end of the game, you'll find yourself wielding an Escher-ish handgun with 8-9 scopes stacked on top of one another, 12 barrels pointing in various directions, 2-3 handles for added stability, and a magazine longer than the gun itself. Assuming you don't go whole-hog with a huge Drum Magazine, but that cuts down on the number of handles and barrels you can attach.

* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'s'' weapon mods, which consisted of silencers, recoil suppressors, range extenders, laser sights...

* ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' features a laundry list of accessories including various scopes and reflex sights, underbarrel grenade launchers and shotguns, and a rather more farfetched portable heartbeat sensor. In multiplayer there's even a special perk to let you take two add-ons instead of one.

** ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' also features several prominent problems with the guns shown. The TAR-21, for example, is built and deployed with an integral red dot sight that runs off a power source built into the gun; there are ironsights, but they're backups meant for use if the red dot fails for whatever reason. Taking the Red Dot Sight attachment with the TAR-21 will give you the weapon's proper real-life dot sight system rather than the generic dot sight most other weapons in the game get.

** ''World at War'' allowed the player to use rifle grenades with the M1 Garand and the bolt-action rifles; the process shown is actually incorrect, however, since contemporary rifle grenades required the rifle itself to be unloaded and reloaded with special grenade blank rounds.

*** To their credit, the flamethrower attachment is ridiculously short lived, firing a full tank in about two seconds due to the very small size. However, since most of the stuff used in the game wasn't developed until long ''after'' the Vietnam war...[[Anachronism Stew|well]].

*** Black Ops also has a nice fix for submachine guns being used without stocks like they are in ''Modern Warfare 2'' - most guns in that category already have a foregrip attached, so adding the Grip attachment typically makes your character unfold the stock instead.

** In movies, these often play the part of real underbarrel launchers, since they're cheaper, easier to get hold of, and don't require large numbers of murderously expensive destructive device permits.

* The domestic version of Germany's G36 assault rifle has a dual scope, with one of the eyepieces being a reflex sight and the other a magnifying scope.

* This [http://www.break.com/pictures/pimped-out-pistol619104.html Pimped Out Pistol] is good example, given the silencer would make the giant scope useless unless you have severe problems making shots at ten yards.

** I'd be more concerned with the fact that the pistol would be impossible to load. Due to the way that the action of the pistol works, when the slide is pulled back to chamber a round, the barrel, and hence the silencer, tilt upwards by a few degrees. This is clearly impossible with the scope flush against the silencer, so to load (and to fire) the pistol one of them would have to be removed.

* [http://www.laserlyte.com/Pistol_Bayonet/PB-1/PB-1.html Yup, they went there].

* The [http://www.gunaccessories.com/mwg/index.asp Muzzelite bullpup stock] is an accessory stock that you actually shove the entire gun inside; after throwing in a compatible Ruger or Marlin action, you can pretend you have a proper bullpup rifle. One made of cheap plastic with a hideous trigger pull, but that's tacticool for you. These formed the basis of the Morita assault rifles in the ''[[Starship Troopers (Film)|Starship Troopers]]'' movie.

* Perhaps the silliest are accessories larger than the actual gun. Such as the [http://www.cornershot.com/ Cornershot], a pistol (and more recently carbine and single-shot grenade launcher) accessory the size of a full-size rifle that includes a camera and mount and allows the mounted gun to be sighted and fired around corners. [http://domhyde.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/kitty-kat-cornershot-camo/ Cat accessory optional]. ''[[Reality Is Unrealistic|Seriously]]''.

* [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/GMCMA/Other%20stuff/gun_with_cup_holder.jpg You knew this would exist, didn't you?]

** [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|As ridiculous as the idea sounds,]] [[Truth in Television|some weapons (the SIG SG 550 for example) have magazines designed to be clipped together,]] and Heckler and Koch even makes a specific accessory that holds two MP5 magazines together (they're about an inch apart) to facilitate speedy reloading. The practice is depreciated for calibres of 7.62x39mm and larger, however, as it adds enough weight to play merry hell with the weapon's balance.

** This is called [[Truth in Television|"Jungle Style" clipping]], which has it's roots in [[World War 2]] with the M1 Carbine. Troopers would tape two magazines together to facilitate faster reloading.

** One of the uses for such an add-on? [[Shoot Out the Lock|Shooting out the locks on doors.]] Or, more accurately, shooting the door off of the lock, allowing it to be easily kicked open, hence the marketing name for the original such add-on: The Master Key.

* The Israeli Galil assault rifle has two accessories, both built into the bipod. The first is a wirecutter. The second is a bottle opener. The second may sound strange, but among the civilian reservists serving in the IDF a wide-spreading habit had them popping the tops off of soda bottles with the rifle's magazines, which damaged them.

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