Video Game Guns vs. Real Life
Video game guns vs real life: the Kilo 141 is an HK433, the Klobb a Skorpion, the AWP a .308, and suppressors still hit 130-plus dB. The real guns, decoded.
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Simo Häyhä’s Guns: The White Death’s Iron-Sighted M/28-30 and Suomi KP/-31
Simo Häyhä fought the Winter War with his own SAKO M/28-30, a Finnish Mosin-Nagant, using iron sights instead of a scope, plus a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. The kill counts, the honorary rifle, and what Finnish Mosins cost now.
Carlos Hathcock’s Guns: The Model 70, the M40 and the 2,500-Yard M2 .50 Cal Shot
Carlos Hathcock fought in Vietnam with a .30-06 Winchester Model 70 and an 8x Unertl scope, shot the new M40, and set a 2,500-yard record with a scoped M2 Browning. The famous shots, what’s disputed, and what the rifles cost now.
Doc Holliday’s Guns: The Borrowed Shotgun, the Nickel Colt and Kate’s Derringer
Doc Holliday killed Tom McLaury with a borrowed Wells Fargo shotgun, loved a nickel-plated Colt, and died with a derringer engraved To Doc from Kate. What’s documented, what’s Hollywood, and what the guns cost now.
Wild Bill Hickok’s Guns: The Navy Colts, the Buried Rifle and the Dead Man’s Hand
Wild Bill Hickok’s ivory-gripped Colt Navy revolvers, the Springfield rifle buried beside him, the .32s he carried when Jack McCall shot him, and the gun that killed him. Plus what the same guns cost new.
Ma Barker’s Tommy Gun: Did She Really Fire It?
The FBI found Ma Barker dead beside a Thompson after the 1935 Lake Weir shootout and made her Bloody Mama, the gang’s mastermind. The gun, the gunfight, the legend Hoover built, and what a Tommy gun costs now.
John Dillinger’s Guns: The Wooden Gun, the Tommy Guns and the Biograph Colt
John Dillinger robbed banks with a Thompson, broke jail with a wooden gun, hid a derringer in his sock and died reaching for a Colt pocket pistol. Every Dillinger gun, what they sold for, and what they cost now.
Pretty Boy Floyd’s Guns: The Two .45s, the Tommy Gun and His Last Stand
Pretty Boy Floyd carried two Colt .45s the FBI called machine pistols, and died with both still loaded. The guns, the Kansas City Massacre that armed the FBI, and the Tommy gun that killed him.
Did Chief Keef Shoot at the Police? What the 2011 Report Says
No. The 2011 Chicago police report says a 16-year-old Chief Keef pointed a handgun at officers and the officers fired and missed. The gun, the plea, the gun range video and where the AK-47 and Draco stories come from.