Gun Prop

Another prop that is need for our production is the murder weapon, and for this to fit in with the storyline of the film it has to be a gun. This means we needed a realistic firearm, but because of this it made it a necessity for us to have to read up on the law regarding the imitation and toy firearms. The legislation is below:

Code of Practice for Toy Firearms (V1.0)

"The Violent Crime Reduction Act, amongst other things, amends firearms legislation to ban the 

manufacture, import and sale of realistic imitations and prohibits the sale of any imitation firearm 

(whether or not it is realistic) to persons under the age of 18 years.  Longer sentences have been 

introduced for the possession of an imitation firearm in a public place without reasonable excuse. "

These details mean that we were unable to find a realistic firearm, without blowing the bank, plus if we are to have a realistic weapon we need to make sure that anyone in the vicinity is fully aware that the prop is being used for filming purposes only. 

This meant what we decided to do was buy a children's toy gun that followed the UK Law and alter it to meet our needs. The gun we bought was originally blue and bought from Pound world  To alter it to what we need we took it apart, removed the orange plug at the end and then sprayed it Matt black to look more realistic the result is below: 

There is only one scene in the production that requires the gun to be taken out into a public place, however, when we do this we will notify anyone in the vicinity that it is a fake firearm being used for filming purposes, we will also try to film as quickly as possible. 

The gun must also need to be used as photography prop inside an evidence bag, the picture we took is below. We used a sandwhich bag to make it look like and evidence bag and then to make it look more convincing we edited it by adding the text 'police evidence bag' and a barcode and changed it to black and white.