[HN Gopher] Internet Movie Firearms Database
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Internet Movie Firearms Database
Author : rishabhd
Score : 138 points
Date : 2021-12-21 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.imfdb.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.imfdb.org)
| WheatM wrote:
| stickfigure wrote:
| Warning: Autoplays loud advertising videos on every page
| transition.
| [deleted]
| polartx wrote:
| Do you even adblock?
| WediBlino wrote:
| Does America really need another way to fetishize guns?
| gao8a wrote:
| Guns are cool. You should give them a try, I recommend at an
| outdoor range too. America is one of the last countries with a
| liberal mindset (in the true definition) that allows private
| ownership to exist. Like driving fast, flying or diving, there
| are few pleasures in life that match firing guns outdoors.
| knlje wrote:
| I went to the army and spent many days at an outdoor range
| shooting at targets with an automatic rifle. I was a pretty
| solid shooter and earned some medals. Yet I fail to see where
| is the "cool" part. Shooting is just another skill you
| practice in order to kill.
| ARandomerDude wrote:
| Military training will suck the fun out of pretty much
| anything. I've been on both sides and can honestly say I
| enjoy shooting a .22 with my kids way more than an
| automatic weapon in the Army.
|
| And it doesn't have to be about killing. We play shooting
| like people play darts. Hit the target for fun.
| zepto wrote:
| > Shooting is just another skill you practice in order to
| kill.
|
| True if you are a solider. Not so for most other people.
| gao8a wrote:
| Thank you for your opinion and service. I too served and
| was privileged be trained during relative peace time but
| also had the liberal budget thanks to the GWOT. Our country
| doesn't really give out medals for just shooting, but my
| competence and appreciation in marksmanship is owed to the
| wonderful cadre I had teaching me, and their passion in
| marksmanship in addition to the weapon system.
|
| I'm not going to deny your point on killing. That is one
| application of firearms, also a powerful one, but I don't
| feel that's a reason to absolutely prohibit them for the
| common folk. As we're both on HN I'm sure you also don't
| "get" why folks just love some things like I do.
|
| For me it's the history, appreciation of the engineering,
| and my now civilian hobbies of hunting and competition
| shooting. They are one of many things that bring me joy
| that I would hate to lose in my healthy years.
| userbinator wrote:
| The Second Amendment is a deeply ingrained part of American
| culture.
| [deleted]
| b5n wrote:
| Don't kinkshame.
| Findecanor wrote:
| Having movie guns (and other props) as a hobby isn't
| specifically American. I live in a country with very strict gun
| control laws, and I collect and build _replica_ movie guns (and
| other prop replicas). I hate what guns are used for, but I love
| _movies_.
|
| BTW. As a consequence of my hobby, I have begun finding the
| history of handguns interesting though. I can also appreciate
| the human-scale mechanical engineering and the design for
| usability and ergonomics. Gun designers don't mess about with
| the user interface when it is literally a matter of life and
| death.
| newaccount2021 wrote:
| tertius wrote:
| No one likes gear.
| exolymph wrote:
| Yes, and it's gonna thrive regardless of your disapproval :)
| rabuse wrote:
| Buying another right now just for this comment.
| txsoftwaredev wrote:
| I wish they would stop. Ammo prices have gotten out of hand.
| major505 wrote:
| I love this site. It's a great resource to find weird guns in
| 80's movies.
| rpmisms wrote:
| I love this site! I often use it to find the cool gun a main
| character is using and get one for myself.
| cdot2 wrote:
| Your poor bank account
| jcims wrote:
| Eh, think of it as diversification.
|
| (until you start buying ammo anyway)
| tomschlick wrote:
| Depending on the political climate, buying and sitting on
| large amounts of ammo for the next price surge could be a
| good investment.
| dr-detroit wrote:
| Rebelgecko wrote:
| Unless you live somewhere that restricts your ability to
| resell it
| tomschlick wrote:
| Thankfully that legislative idiocy seems constrained to
| specific states.
| rpmisms wrote:
| Guns depreciate very slowly, and if high-quality or unusual,
| they often appreciate. Not really a net worth hit.
| pvarangot wrote:
| I think when I sold my 1911 it was more expensive than when
| I bought it, but even though I didn't use it much I had
| spent like at least 5 or 6 guns just on ammo and I still
| sucked with the thing.
| rpmisms wrote:
| 1911s are wonderful, but definitely not for everyone.
| Polarizing grip angle.
| JasonFruit wrote:
| I love it until it stovepipes again.
| rpmisms wrote:
| As a Beretta lover, I felt that in my soul. John Moses
| Browning, we're sorry for ignoring the hi-power.
| newaccount2021 wrote:
| Blackthorn wrote:
| I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I bought a modern Mauser
| replica action to build a clone of the k98 used by Riza in
| Fullmetal Alchemist.
| rpmisms wrote:
| Dude, that rocks! The gun-building community is going crazy
| these days. There's some very cool sci-fi guns being printed:
| https://twitter.com/p80ralph/status/1473091500225572866/phot.
| ..
| everforward wrote:
| Be very careful with those. It's *very* easy to end up on
| the wrong side of the ATF. I.e. on that one you posted,
| he's calling it a pistol, but it appears to have a stock to
| me.
|
| I believe that makes it a rifle in ATF terms. Rifles have
| to have a 16" barrel, or they're short-barreled rifles that
| require a whole bunch of extra paperwork and some taxes.
| The class is called NFA Items, and includes fully automatic
| weapons. I.e. making that thing is the same as home-
| manufacturing a machine gun to the law.
|
| I'm going to hope for his sake that he's got the
| appropriate FFL licenses to allow him to make such things.
| It seems like they're really into the space, so it wouldn't
| surprise me. I don't think those licenses are crazy hard to
| get, but I could be wrong.
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
| sidpatil wrote:
| Hey, just what you see pal.
| yawnxyz wrote:
| There's also the Internet Movie Cars Database which I'm a huge
| fan of: https://www.imcdb.org/
|
| edit: especially for a show like Archer where they feature a ton
| of very obscure cars...
| https://www.imcdb.org/movie_1486217-Archer.html
| dividuum wrote:
| Or if you're into aviation: https://www.impdb.org/
| WalterBright wrote:
| The car database seems to have some egregious accuracy
| problems:
|
| https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_579212-Volkswagen-Rabbit-Typ-1...
| tylermac1 wrote:
| There's a VW Rabbit crossing the street in the background.
| aasasd wrote:
| Yup, there's also the mark that it's a 'background vehicle'
| under the image. The site's UI could use some work, though
| --I'm saying that as an occasional user.
| soheil wrote:
| Great resource, but I wish it'd let you filter by movie/song
| and movie rating.
| mgdlbp wrote:
| Some more specialized movie databases:
|
| the defunct Internet Movie Radio Database:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20181201121627/https://www.imrdb...
|
| https://www.moviemistakes.com/
|
| and the Bechdel Test Movie List: https://bechdeltest.com/
| myself248 wrote:
| We really need an "internet movie meta- attribute database"
| with a way to represent all this stuff. Cuz as far as I know,
| nobody's set up a whole website for the Internet Movie
| Household Appliance Database, it's not THAT big an interest.
|
| But if I could just log onto the IMMADB and open the Household
| Appliance tab, it'd be cool to find out what that cool-looking
| vacuum cleaner was...
| laurent92 wrote:
| Isn't that just a subset of IMPPDB? The Internet Movie
| Product Placement Database, with company.type='hoover'
| enabled? Which would be very convenient to know who paid what
| for advertising.
| ipsin wrote:
| Glad to see that IMDB hasn't tried to hit every IM*DB with a
| Trademark claim?
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| They might be worried a court will find that 'Internet Movie
| Database' is a generic name, which would lead to losing their
| trademark.
| dr-detroit wrote:
| ggambetta wrote:
| Can't take this seriously because it's missing the ubiquitous
| ZF-1.
|
| https://fifth-element.fandom.com/wiki/Zorg_ZF-1_Pod_Weapon
| Natsu wrote:
| Does it only have released movies? I was trying to find Alec
| Baldwin's infamous gun from Rust.
| fartattack wrote:
| zepto wrote:
| Why not add it yourself?
| haunter wrote:
| It's there?
|
| http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Fifth_Element,_The#AKS-74U_.28as_t...
| ggambetta wrote:
| Strange, my many searches didn't find it. I stand corrected.
| SergeAx wrote:
| TIL: "Each function of the ZF-1 demonstrated by Zorg was a
| separate prop which only had that one function".
|
| This is entirely obvious after thinking a bit, but still great
| example of movie editing for fooling audience.
| cgriswald wrote:
| On the other hand, I fully support the exclusion of the
| weirding module[0] from David Lynch's _Dune_.
|
| [0] - https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Weirding_Module
| Mathnerd314 wrote:
| Well it doesn't have Dune at all, AFAICT. 28k pages vs 595k
| movies on IMDB, it's going to miss some. And they seem to
| have quite restrictive policies on who can edit, what counts
| as a gun, etc.
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| ... These sardaukars are still salty after the freemen
| defeated them using weirding modules.
| frittata wrote:
| Wow, Bruce Willis in Die Hard and Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon
| used the exact same gun, "The live-firing handgun that was used
| in both films has since been 'retired' to a glass museum case."
|
| http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon_(1987)
| racl101 wrote:
| Not secure. Ooof
| eatYourFood wrote:
| Don't forget rust....
| [deleted]
| mikotodomo wrote:
| Is there something like this for shoes?
| joan_kode wrote:
| OK, I didn't realize how much detail was put into guns in Ghost
| in the Shell SAC:
| http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_Stand_Alone_Com...
|
| I didn't even feel like it had much of a focus on gun fights, but
| apparently it's like a detailed firearms museum. They also have
| airsoft product placements... I'm not that surprised, some people
| probably bought the featured airsoft guns purely for display.
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