Cool Guns

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.

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.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was credited with 309 kills with a scoped Mosin-Nagant, was photographed with an SVT-40 at Sevastopol, and was given a Colt pistol and a Winchester Model 70 on her 1942 tour. What’s documented, what’s debated, and what the guns cost now.

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.

Chris Kyle carried a Mk 11, a Mk 12, a .300 Win Mag Remington 700 and .338 Lapua rifles in Iraq, plus a Springfield TRP 1911 he bought himself. What the record supports, what’s disputed, and what the civilian guns cost now.

Every gun in Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, identified: the Beretta 92FS Bryan never reloads, the hammer double off the mantel, the MP5A3 from the Umbrella car and Maxine’s Laugo Alien.

Every gun in Netflix’s The Rip, identified frame by frame: Damon’s Troy M7A1 and Gen 5 Glock, Affleck’s inherited SIG P228, and the TEC-9 that was really in the 2016 Miami-Dade raid.

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.

Wyatt Earp carried a Smith & Wesson at the O.K. Corral, killed Curly Bill with a borrowed shotgun, and never owned a Buntline Special. What he really carried, the disputed $225,000 Colt, and what the guns cost now.