Firearms Expert Reacts to the Fallout TV Show’s Guns

This is Jonathan Ferguson, the Keeper of Firearms and Ordnance at the Royal Museum of Armor in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from across history and in this week's episode we

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The Fallout, including some. they're hard to spot and you might have gotten lost in the background there's a plasma gun there's a laser rifle I missed the plasma gun I saw the laser rifle but I'm picking up a lot more detail from this than when I actually watched the episode, be sure to subscribe , as we have a ton of Fallout content on the channel right now, including a breakdown of the show's many Easter eggs and a full Fallout Cannon timeline, and of course, let us know what future games you have coming up.

I'd like to see us covered in the comments section below, directly to Jonathan, my name is Lucy McLean and I'm all about rivalry, although I'm not very good at it. The Sterling machine

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in Fallout, very surprised to see them, from what I can tell, Sterling markv. what is the most produced variant out there now, obviously there are sterling in the United States, the first obstacle here is geography, why do we have a very British submachine gun in the western United States in any timeline? Well, they exported you. I'll find them, they're not common, although the biggest problem I have is that we're in the 21st century of this timeline, so why the hell would Vault armories have vintage submachine

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from the 50s?

I know why I chose them, they have that kind of 50s look because they are, so we see the main character, uh, shooting from the chest, looking over the gun and holding the magazine, wincing a little, sorry , Ella, but you are, you are shuddering. there but they're using real guns and that's what I'm glad they used real blank guns on this show considering she's supposed to be on this kind of rifle team she's not doing a great job a choice really strange, I don't know what you're saying. Think Dave about British Pounds Sterling, by the way, they're not Canadian either.

C for anyone. I was going to say that I thought he was being really smart when I texted you about it. It was as if you were asking me if there were examples in the sterling game. popping up and I thought, oh, maybe it's the Canadian C1 because the United States annexed Canada and they like it no, it's Sterlings for those of you who don't know how I can smugly and glibly respond that the main clue is the protector of front sight. a very distinctive shape in the Canadian C1, not that that solves the other complaint I have, which is that they are actually too old, the other thing of course, it is a science fiction series, what is this known?

Being apart of the Sterling, especially with the Stormtrooper Blaster folded, so even people who don't know guns might be looking at that, oh that looks a bit like a Stormtrooper gun, maybe I'm overthinking it anyway, I keep going, so the tranquilizer gun. help me Dave, it's designed after the games. I don't remember it personally, it's a unique design, but I think it possibly references the syringe, yes we saw it in the last episode of Fallout 4 that we did last week, but I think that's the only kind of tangible reference in the game . I'm not going to spoil it, but I have my own Cannon as to why a weapon like this appears in this Vault, but I know you're only on episode four, so it's okay on that kind of thing, this is Fallout, the latest . version of this, but that survival of people underground after a nuclear attack scenario, you have to think carefully about what weapons you want in whose hands, but to me it would make sense that the things available that you know will literally break glass in case of emergency. with the uh D gun and then your submachine guns are locked away and only certain people can access them because things go south quickly in a very small community like that, where no one can go out, people are going to have ideas about riots and rebellions and those things.

It's very interesting to think about, we've also glimpsed what I think the rifle version of this must be, let's call it the syringe, do we think that's what the silver gun is? Yeah, because we see Lucy's father get shot with um. with one of those, when the Raider picks it up you can see some vault security using it so I think it's just a long silver Tran gun, funnily enough and this isn't the gun from the series but it's eerily familiar , it has a different shaped cylinder head, but putting it all together is really different. This is the Hilton mrpg multi-purpose riot gun, one of the many riot guns we have in the collection that happens to have been chrome plated for reasons best known to the Hilton company, but as soon as I saw that.

In Fallout I thought, "Oh wow, we have that gun, we don't have that gun, but it really reminds me of, you know, size, shape, color, you don't shoot darts, it shoots like big rubber bullets, but it certainly looks very, very fallen". So there's a bit of debate about what the Fallout assault rifle is actually based on, what we've seen before, in particular the grip that the giant M249 or FN minime front grip has, so we have the very standout feature here that the left hand is This remains, there is a direct elevation of this design that is on this 5.56 mm light machine gun, it is not at all the type of machine gun that the rest of the weapon is, what is the rest of the weapon?

Well, that's where the debate arises. suits me well, i've gone for something that looks more like a complete package, there's a definite element of the ls pistol there, the veins on the back of the barrel shroud, basically the barrel shroud up to where just forward of the front sight mount which is the barrel shroud of the Lewis gun, so it's a radiant aluminum radiator with a steel casing on top, but the front of this is like the Lewis mullit of um vica, it has the Lewis, sorry, Vicor in the front, the Lewis in the rear I think.

That's a good choice. I think if you had gone with just the front end of a Lewis gun it would be too Star Wars and too obvious by mixing Maxim Lewis M249 and whatever the rear heart is and we had this debate. Before that, I'm not convinced that the rear of the receiver and the feed pan are based on anything in particular, so the gun I chose as the real world version type is very much not an assault rifle , it's a light machine gun, so I know if we were making a Fallout TV series on a budget, you could literally grab this and put an optical prism on top of it and you'd have your Fallout assault rifle.

You wouldn't want to do that to anyone who's priceless. but it's a very valuable relic from the Great War and you wouldn't want it for prop reasons either because it's too heavy to give to an actor, even if he's in power armor, we see the Squire trying to use that massive, bulky heavy assault. rifle and supports it, which reflects the actual weight and volume of something like this weapon behind me and the fact that someone with powered armor could really use it as an assault rifle Martha, my name is Mera, the classic, well for me anyway the classic 10mm gun just like power armor its brilliant to see that in real action and we actually have two types of 10mm gun in this series.

I suspect you have the other one for me three, there are three types of 10mm pistol in the entire franchise, one and two. three in New Vegas and the four, they are all slightly different. I think the 10mm pistol with Fallout 3 is where I formed my impression of the design language of

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, if you like, from the Fallout Universe, big, bulky, old looking, but also futuristic, I always prefer to have that than something like a broom handle. I mean, I'm sure there are nitpicky things people could do, but and they're probably getting my attention, uh no, I don't think it's based on the accessory it's based on. on any real firearm, so although some of the weapons appear to be real

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that fire blanks, there are also completely prop weapons that won't fire anything, might have an electric motor driven action and then there will be a CGI mouth flash box ejection. shoot it, this is a really interesting weapon so start it up, it first appears in one of the original isometric games, if I remember correctly, yes it was the 10mm pistol from Fallout 1 and two, it's actually called the Colt 6520 , so we get these. two different prominent 10mm pistols, so the larger one appears in a different context and the Knights of the Brotherhood have a third pistol, assumed to be the Squire's pistol, it is still large and bulky, but it is slimmer than some of the others and It's this interesting combination of a cylinder and presumably some type of magazine, so there are a couple of obscure designs.

The Dardic is the most famous of the magazine-fed revolvers, so it's not impossible for you to have a gun that has both features. We can see a magazine base plate there, but there is no logical way for that to go from a magazine to that cylinder. The cylinder is too forward. Funnily enough, this is getting really nerdy now. This 10mm pistol was originally conceived as an automatic. revolver, but there was a lack of communication between artists and writers during the development of Fallout 1, the writers gave it a loading system that was like a magazine, but the artist thought he was thinking of it as an automatic revolver, so in it sort of retained those two conflicting systems. now, but in the show you also see that the cylinder rotates even though it's also fed by the magazine, so it's like this strange lack of communication inherited from Fallout that has now become real in the show, it's normally very strange, That would bother me, but the fact that it's based on video game history is kind of nice.

I like the practical aspect of the accessory's moving parts. Al again, this is not built on any real world weapons. It's completely an accessory I'm looking at now. The version on this is Fallout 4, presumably this was added as a Creation Club um mod that brings Fallout one and two weapons to Fallout 4 and again, I don't see that there is no way that if this is fed with a magazine, the rounds can enter that cylinder, there is also a Norwegian design that the earth does not have in a stable manner. I've never actually seen in person feed your cylinder from a magazine and I don't actually know the design reason for that, in the long run it's unnecessarily complicated and cumbersome to use two different feeding mechanisms when feeding devices when only one is necessary, but you know the rule of cool applies here.

I think okay, here's that third dummy gun, a completely dummy gun, very surprised they came up with a new one. The design may appear in Fallout games in the future, unfortunately it is somewhat based on Desert Eagle. Now you know I have time for Desert Eagle, but it's a bit a la Choice, guys, I'm sorry to say that. I made it look pretty and it failed, don't get me wrong, it didn't need to look like a desert eagle and probably shouldn't have if I'm being critical, especially when you already have two perfectly useful very Fallout looking sciences. -Fi they are already in your program, why not just give them a 10 thousand pistol?

It's also a little weirder when you consider that Fallout 3's 10mm gun in New Vegas is based on a desert eagle, the back half being a desert. eagle, so there is already the Desert Eagle lineage in the life of the Fallout pistol. I forgot about Dave and that probably means that was his starting point for this gun and then for some reason he split into this design, it could even be practical reasons why I can't think you know what you said before Arnold Swarzenegger he has the Desert Eagle because any other gun would look dumb in his hands.

Yes, this is like a knight's armored pistol. I mean, what else are you really going to get? You need a big gun. At least I appreciate the detail. They removed the trigger guard so it can fit an armored finger, so it's meant to be specific for a large armored figure. That's fair enough, so maybe that was the design process. We will be based on the 10 mil pistol from 4 3, but we will change it so that it has been redesigned or customized so that the Brotherhood of Steel gives them their own specific pistol according to the story. I asked him to have a weapon at his disposal and they had already gone the golf bag route, so he wasn't going to have his assault rifle on his back or any other weapon.

I'm surprised we didn't see the power. The first thing came in at that point, so we have lever actions in the Fallout memory games based on the Marlin. This appears to be a Winchester, so there is a shot where, where it is still on his back, you can see that the gun clearly has a side plate, so there is a win Winchester 73 side plate with the loading door and the plate side on the otherside this screw in this position back here this bulge here is not as prominent as on the Marlin but you know it's there and it's not On the later Winchesters, the hammer is the wrong shape, but it's not on Million Miles Away.

My money is on this being based on a Winchester, but I don't think it's a real gun and it's been changed design-wise, it has a big loop. In it, it is not a huge John Wayne slt2 loop, but an enlarged loop. This is a Winchester 73 carbine reduced to just a pistol-sized grip and a reduced barrel to the point that in some cases this thing is generally referred to as a May's leg in that configuration due to the rough shape of the weapon , basically a Winchester reduced to the size of a pistol, a big pistol, but the size of a pistol, and that's what's on Mr.

Goggin's back, an absolutely enormous caliber if we go by the hole in the front that looks like be 50 plus caliber, but the loading door is now about this size. note that the ghoul pulls one of his special rounds from his Bandelier and then offers it to the receiver of his rifle and you almost think this doesn't fit and then cuts himself off , I do not know what is happening. It really looks like he's trying to load something that doesn't fit and that loading door is absolutely too small, even if the mouth of that thing suggests that's the right round, so I don't know what's going on there.

If I had overlooked it, I would have ordered Walton not to make it obvious that his rounds don't fit his gun or am I missing something here, please tell me in the comments if I'm a now that they've fought to get. I have a real one anyway, but the revolver is very similar, very similar, but in detail not to the MTS 255 that we featured before to get what game, which is a Russian revolving shotgun design, an artist used it as a main reference and created an unique. p for the ghoul I don't think has been in Fallout before or that MTS has been in Fallout Dave, remind me no, this is again another new one for the show, but it fits, yes, you're your main type of antihero.

I guess the Gunslinger character has a unique revolver style hero weapon that is very sci-fi and that's completely appropriate and now it's interesting a slow motion shot here with specialized ammo so it's definitely Ely one of his Bandelier , he's like stoking the revolver, I guess it's single action, so he just stokes it once and fires it quickly. The gun effects are like Fallout's trademark, several hints of the bloody mess benefit of the Fallout games, to be fair, even vanilla. Fallout uh wounds can be quite graphic oh okay interesting craft produced with appearance. A rusty riveted steel thing with a wooden handguard looks really droopy, I don't know what it is, this is like the only nod we get to Fallout 4's makeshift pipe weapons.

Huge in that game, obviously, I guess when you're making a TV show is easy, it's easier to have prop weapons or blank weapons to look and sound your way and make something like this do the same thing. I don't think there are many. There are real blank weapons in this show, but most of these weapons are completely props, there's nothing stopping them from using the full Fallout 4 and having a bunch of pipe weapons of various types, and I'm a little surprised, like you , that they haven't done that. I didn't even realize this when watching this episode.

I hope thanks for pointing it out. Oh hello, what is that? Yeah, when I was cutting out the clips to show you, I was going through them slowly and I missed this. I watched this episode twice and I missed this weird thing, you just see it in the reflection of a mirror and it's like a Burton LMR style gun. I think it's another tube gun, reminds me of the Burton V magazine, choose which magazine you want, uh. rifle that is at the Cody Firearms Museum, our friends at the Cody Firearms Museum have it on display with that Arrangement V, but it appears to be made from pieces of pipe, so I think this is possibly the other one that I couldn't detect before. that fall to the ground when someone gets shot all three are likely based on the pipe guns from Fallout 4 in the background there is a plasma gun there is a laser rifle I missed the plasma gun I saw the laser rifle is right above Lucy's head right in the back Very small plasma gun, oh my goodness, they must have done so much for this that we haven't really seen in detail the shot where it fans out.

I think the one below is another pipe gun. I think the one above is trying to echo the laser musket from Fallout 4. I think so. I don't see a crank, but it would be on the other side, right? No, no, it would be on the left side, but me. I mean, it's a rifle body with laser gobbins strapped to the top, so I think that's what they're going for, it has to be the laser rifle type of barrel assembly on the top and then some sort of capacitors. the back black tape, yeah it's not the laser musket but it's definitely riffing on it so the pipe gun isn't the same one we just saw when someone's hands got shot off because it has a single magazine in There seem to be two on the top and it has a tubular stock instead of a double strut, so you see that they have probably made several different tube guns and only a few of them have managed to get through so prominent, but I'm picking up a lot more detail from this than when I watched the episode "Ah, Junk Plane." As soon as I saw a doll limb appear on someone's chest, I realized what it was and hopefully at this point it's labeled for you.

That's a cool concept for a weapon, we've covered it before of course, disappointing in the actual use of it from my memory, anyway, it's really surprising how many elements from the games have translated into this because they did. so dark that I couldn't make out a pair of scissors there, I think it was in the trash stream, yes, scissors and cutlery, I think that of course makes sense in the game. I don't think it matters what garbage you put there. not from my memory. I went back and recorded some gameplay to compare and everything seemed to do the same damage, including even the top opening, where they are theoretically putting all the gobbins, it's the feur that appears in the credit of the version of the show for them.

A lot of work has gone into recreating a very niche gaming weapon, but it is something very distinctive and memorable. People who haven't played the games will wonder what the hell is going on with her. Come on, come on, come on. Now I'm struggling to remember. turret gun designs from these games, look like they should have been taken directly from a game, but I can't really remember it. I love the TV screen please keep calm at the bottom, it's this faithful Dave to sentry guns from none of the games I don't really remember, it's pretty spot on because of the sentry guns you can place in your settlements or that you can find in Fallout 4, except for the screen please stay calm, they are as accurate as they are shown as they are in the game too, so they know the part where I put one of them and lost the interest and I think I put it in the wrong place too, which didn't help, yeah, they.

They're largely useless for defending your settlement because you'll still get a notification to go defend it, and as we see in the show Fallout, you apparently can't hit a man or a dog either. That trope of shooting where the person was is bad. You know, anyone who has any kind of combat training will know that he shouldn't shoot where he is now if he runs perpendicular to you because you will miss behind them, which is dramatic and exciting. I guess a robot's turret should be able to, I mean literally, just shoot straight ahead, shoot two feet in front of it, it'll run into that stream of gunfire, but of course the character has to survive, okay. , guys, it was a lot of fun, thanks for watching The Guns of. a TV show we're branching out to, uh, Fallout TV show, enjoying it so far, about halfway through, hoping to finish the rest.

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