The Guns of Extraction: Every Weapon Identified

Extraction is basically one long gunfight through Dhaka, and Sam Hargrave shot it like a stuntman rather than a director, which is exactly what he is. The hardware got the same treatment. Tyler Rake’s rifle isn’t “an AR.” It’s a specific build, right down to the offset laser.

Here’s every significant weapon in the film, who carries it, and what you’d buy to own the real thing.

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Tyler Rake’s BCM CQB-11

Rake’s primary rifle is a customised BCM CQB-11 KMR-A10, and the spec list is unusually complete for a film.

It runs a BCMGunfighter Mod 0 stock and Mod 3 vertical grip, an AAC M4-2000 suppressor, Magpul PMAGs, an EOTech EXPS2 holographic sight with a G33 magnifier behind it, and a Steiner offset tactical aiming laser mounted at an angle so it clears the optic.

Every one of those choices is what a working contractor would actually run. The EOTech and magnifier combination gives you close-quarters speed with the option to reach out. The offset laser exists because there’s no room left on top of the rail. Nothing on this gun is there to look cool, which is why it does.

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The Daniel Defense M4A1 and the continuity error

For the final shootout Rake switches to a Daniel Defense M4A1 with a suppressor and a Leupold HAMR optic. Good, sensible, expensive.

Watch closely though. In a handful of shots during that sequence the Daniel Defense is briefly replaced by a BCM rifle wearing a KMR handguard, most likely the CQB-11 from earlier in the film. It’s a straightforward continuity slip, the sort that happens when a production has two similar rifles on the truck and a tight schedule.

Rake’s Glock 17

His sidearm is a Glock 17, which is the correct boring answer. A man doing this job in this part of the world carries the pistol that runs in dust and heat and that he can find magazines for anywhere.

The M79 at the end

Near the finale Rake uses a customised M79 grenade launcher against Bangladeshi military and police. The M79 is the Vietnam-era break-action “blooper,” and seeing one cut down and run by a modern contractor is a nice touch. These things are still around in enormous numbers, and in a city where the hardware arrives from everywhere, it fits.

The AKs

AK-47s and AKMs are the wallpaper of this film, in the hands of gangsters, child soldiers and Rake himself when he runs out of better options. That’s honest. In Dhaka the AK is the gun that’s actually there, and a contractor who won’t pick one up off the floor is a contractor who runs dry.

The mercenary kit

The opposing professionals carry European hardware, and it’s a good spread: a Heckler & Koch UMP, a G36C, an MP5SD with its integral suppressor, an FN SCAR-H and an IWI Tavor TAR-21 bullpup.

The MP5SD is the standout. Integrally suppressed, subsonic by design, and exactly what you’d want for quiet work in a stairwell. The Tavor is the other interesting one, an Israeli bullpup that reads instantly as “not American,” which is the point when you’re staging a fight between competing outfits.

The Dhaka police and military

State forces bring the belt-fed answer: a PKM, an M249 SAW Paratrooper, Beretta M12 submachine guns and a Chinese Type 69 RPG.

That mix is well researched. A South Asian force running Chinese and Soviet-pattern support weapons alongside Western small arms is precisely what the real procurement picture looks like, and it’s more thought than most action films give it.

The Lee-Enfield

My favourite gun in the film, and it’s over a century old.

A Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III turns up in Dhaka, and it belongs there. The subcontinent absorbed enormous numbers of Enfields under British rule, Indian factories built them for decades afterwards, and they’re still in service with police and paramilitary units across the region. Putting one in a modern firefight isn’t an anachronism. It’s the single most regionally accurate gun in the movie.

The pistols and the rest

Beyond Rake’s Glock 17 there’s a Glock 19, a Beretta 92FS, a Browning Hi-Power, a Colt M1911A1 and a Heckler & Koch HK45 scattered across various hands. A Remington 700 AICS covers the precision work, an HK SL8 and an IMI Uzi appear, and somebody produces a sawed-off double-barrelled shotgun, because somebody always does.

Building Tyler Rake’s rifle

This is the question I get whenever the film comes up, so here’s the honest answer. You can get very close, and the parts are all current production.

Component	On screen	What to buy
Rifle	BCM CQB-11 with KMR-A10 handguard	BCM builds the CQB-11 as a complete rifle. The KMR-A10 is a catalogue handguard.
Optic	EOTech EXPS2	Current production, unchanged
Magnifier	EOTech G33	Current production, flip-to-side mount
Suppressor	AAC M4-2000	Discontinued. Any modern 5.56 can does the same job.
Stock	BCMGunfighter Mod 0	Current production
Grip	BCMGunfighter Mod 3 vertical	Current production
Laser	Steiner offset tactical laser	Steiner still makes offset-mount units
Magazines	Magpul PMAG	The default, and correctly so

Two honest caveats. The AAC M4-2000 is out of production, so you’re buying used or picking a current equivalent, and suppressors mean a tax stamp and a wait regardless. And the offset laser is the piece most people skip, because it’s expensive and it only makes sense if you’re actually running night vision.

If you want the look without the bill, the rifle and the EOTech do most of the work. The rest is detail.

BCM or Daniel Defense?

Rake carries both across the film, which is a fair reflection of how close they are. Both are cold hammer-forged, properly staked, and built by companies that sell to people who use them for work.

My take: BCM tends to come in a little cheaper for equivalent spec and has the better reputation among builders who mix and match parts. Daniel Defense gives you a more finished rifle out of the box and a nicer handguard. Neither is a mistake, and anyone telling you there’s a clear winner is selling something.

How Extraction was actually armed

Here’s the thing almost nobody writing about this film mentions, and it changes how you watch it.

Most of what you see in Dhaka isn’t a gun. India has strict firearms laws, and the production couldn’t bring real weapons in. Armourer Ron Licari put it plainly: everything they shot in India was an airsoft or rubber weapon, because importing real guns wasn’t an option.

That’s a serious constraint on an action film built almost entirely around gunfights. And it explains a few things you might have half-noticed.

Rubber guns versus airsoft

The two aren’t equivalent, and the difference shows on screen. Rubber guns are solid casts, safe to throw around in a fight scene, useless for anything else. The rubber AK-pattern rifles used in some sequences have no working controls at all. No charging handle, no selector, no bolt.

Airsoft replicas are the better option when an actor has to manipulate the gun, because the controls actually move and the magazine actually comes out. Watch the reloads in the heavier sequences and you can usually tell which category the gun in frame belongs to.

This is also why the film leans so hard on the fight choreography during close-quarters work. When your rifle can’t cycle, you use it as a club, and Extraction does exactly that more than once.

Who taught Hemsworth to run a rifle

Sam Hargrave came up as a stunt coordinator and Chris Evans’ double, so he was never going to accept lazy gun work. He brought in Craig “Chili” Palmer, a former Delta Force operator and shooting instructor, to supervise weapon handling and choreograph the shooting.

You can see the result. Hemsworth’s transitions from rifle to pistol are clean rather than decorative. He works around cover instead of standing in the open. He reloads at sensible moments and not at dramatic ones. Muzzle discipline holds up in the long takes, which is where sloppy handling normally shows.

Getting an actual operator in to run that side of the production is not standard practice, and it’s the single biggest reason the gun work reads as credible even when the guns themselves are rubber.

Why the tactics hold up

The famous twelve-minute oner through the streets and stairwells is the part everyone talks about, and it’s also where the gun handling gets its hardest test. A cut lets you hide a fumbled reload. A continuous take doesn’t.

What holds up: Rake pieing corners rather than crossing them blind, using the vehicle as cover and moving when it stops being cover, dumping the rifle for the pistol in tight interior space instead of trying to swing a carbine round a doorframe. That last one is genuinely correct and almost every action film gets it wrong.

What doesn’t: he takes far more risks than any real contractor would, and the ammunition supply is generous. It’s still a film. But the grammar underneath it is right, which is more than most of the genre manages.

What changed in Extraction 2

The sequel moved production out of India, and the armoury opens up accordingly. The hardware skews European and Eastern European to match the Georgian prison and Vienna settings, and the set pieces get considerably heavier.

If the first film’s constraint was “no real guns in country,” the second one’s is “how much can we put in a single take.” Worth watching the two back to back purely for how differently they solve the same problem.

Every weapon in Extraction

Weapon	Who carries it
BCM CQB-11 KMR-A10	Tyler Rake’s primary, fully customised
Daniel Defense M4A1	Rake in the final shootout, suppressed with a Leupold HAMR
Glock 17	Rake’s sidearm
M79 Grenade Launcher	Rake, customised, near the finale
AK-47 and AKM	Criminals, child soldiers, and Rake when improvising
Heckler & Koch UMP	Mercenaries
Heckler & Koch G36C	Mercenaries
Heckler & Koch MP5SD	Integrally suppressed, quiet work
FN SCAR-H	Mercenaries
IWI Tavor TAR-21	Mercenaries
PKM	Bangladeshi forces
M249 SAW Paratrooper	Bangladeshi forces
Beretta M12	Police submachine gun
Chinese Type 69 RPG	Bangladeshi forces
Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III	Regionally accurate century-old bolt gun
Remington 700 AICS	Precision work
Beretta 92FS	Various
Browning Hi-Power	Various
Colt M1911A1	Various
Glock 19	Various
Heckler & Koch HK45	Various
Heckler & Koch SL8	Civilian-pattern G36 derivative
IMI Uzi	Various
Sawed-off double-barrelled shotgun	Street-level hands

Frequently asked questions

What rifle does Tyler Rake use in Extraction?

A customised BCM CQB-11 KMR-A10 with a BCMGunfighter stock and grip, AAC M4-2000 suppressor, EOTech EXPS2 with G33 magnifier, and a Steiner offset laser. He switches to a suppressed Daniel Defense M4A1 for the final shootout.

What pistol does Tyler Rake carry?

A Glock 17.

Is there a continuity error with Rake’s rifle?

Yes. During the final shootout his Daniel Defense M4A1 is briefly replaced by a BCM rifle with a KMR handguard in a few shots, most likely the CQB-11 used earlier.

Why is there a Lee-Enfield in a modern film?

Because it belongs. Lee-Enfields were issued across the subcontinent under British rule, built in Indian factories for decades after, and remain in service with police and paramilitary units in the region today.

Were the guns in Extraction real?

Mostly not. India’s firearms laws meant the production could not import real weapons, so armourer Ron Licari confirmed everything shot in India was airsoft or rubber. Real firearms were used elsewhere in the production.

Who trained Chris Hemsworth for Extraction?

Craig “Chili” Palmer, a former Delta Force operator and shooting instructor, was brought in by director Sam Hargrave to supervise weapon handling and choreograph the shooting sequences.

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