Firearms Expert Reacts To Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022)’s Guns

This is Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Ordnance at the UK's Royal Armory Museum, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from across history. In this week's episode, Jonathan takes a look at some of the weapons found in the

2022

campaign Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. And now I've been presented with a truly horrible abomination because of course it's gold plated and chrome. Abomination that I'm now going to have to watch, make sure you subscribe if you want to see Jonathan's. Take on the game's multiplayer weapons as we throw some cursed, custom builds at you to react too.

If you want to help the Royal Armory Museum and continue supporting Jonathan's work, check out the links in the description. In this video, let's take a look at some of the weapons in Modern Warfare 2. Overseas, this is a staple of Call of Duty Modern Warfare, what I'm going to

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the AR-15, although I know this for quite specific legal reasons. There is not much to say. to do with this game, but in all games the term AR-15 is still trademarked M4, it is not. Therefore, the discussion about the M4 platform is not part of the M4 platform exactly because it is different.

Here it is real. This is a Daniel Defense ddm4 V7. it's quite up to date, certainly for a museum, it has a very different end, it's cylindrical, it's not an M lock, which appears to be the one on the screen, it's a square slot type of thing that looks like a cooling vent. actually, to hold the rail as we see on the screen, this is actually set up a little bit similarly, so maybe the closest we have to this with some Magpul furniture, not the pistol grip but the cylinder head. stock at least and without that distinctive triangular front sight block of the AR15 M16 M4 and you can see on this one that you don't have that huge additional type of fence over the trigger guard and then going up this existing reinforcing ridge, that's what it is. and there's that classic rounded round section AR upper because this is all the bolt is the bolt carrying group is tubular the buffer tube is tubular everything is tubular and usually this is a rounded outer section, not so here, many AR receivers have that facet Look at them perfectly believable and plausible like an AR-15 model, but not a real world one.

They've gone their own way with it, but there's nothing that stands out as someone could do this in the real world and it would sell. Right next we have the Chris Vector, well we are going to have one so I can't show you what I mean by this, but I can tell by the overall width of the magazine versus the magazine well and what it is. intended to be the lower receiver of the gun, this thing is too thin to accommodate that interesting v shaped bolt on the Chris Vector so this wouldn't work, the bolt has to have room to go back and down and have room for the magazine of spring patterns to go up and there really isn't this thing, this bottom part in front of the trigger guard should be maybe even twice as deep, otherwise it looks good, it looks very rectoral, so it's as curious as ever.

I don't know if it's a mistake or if it's a deliberate choice to distance it from the dimensional issues of the actual design. Other than this, it seems to handle pretty well, given that it's 45 ACP, so it feels a bit more like a recoil hit. seems to emulate real vectors, subjectively reduces recoil, well it's more than subjective, I think the overall design type and something about the delay in bolt drop seems to help in automatic firing, everyone is fine, well, we cover the um, the infamous Stegall in this series so often that I almost left it behind in the drawers, but it felt bad, so here it is, uh, Desert Eagle Mark.

I think we're at mark 19. The one in the set has top and bottom Picatinny rails, this one has the old style two-notch Weaver pattern rail from the old days because it's relatively old, there's the eagle, but it's the same brand and then they stopped rebranding and just changed. the gun anyway, so you get different barrel lengths, they offset you, and the rails have just slid off without a change in branding. As far as I know, and then we have the horribly pimped one with the titanium nitride type. Golden cannon and huge compensator. Target sights. Red hammer.

Strange machined custom slide. I don't know of anything like that for the Desert Eagle, but I'm sure someone is doing it. Maybe not exactly the same, although that's okay, a little bit is okay. Although I think a version of this has been in the series before, before I get to my issues, the magazine at the top of this thing is clearly p90-esque either it's trans semi-trans semi-translucent or it's translucent semi-translucent, you can see the bullet there, they look like 5.7 millimeter bullets, they're running out, the follower moves as the gun fires, probably one of the best representations of the P90 magazine feed system we've talked about before in this series.

It's a shame it's attached to this Abomination, don't get me wrong, it looks great and it almost seems like if FN decided to make a P90 A2 with a new receiver molding, they might as well make it look like this in a way that looks a little better, so it's not a bad design, don't get me wrong, but it's not at all a P90 and I don't know why it's not negative on Hassan, negative, there are no eyes on the hbt, one frozen, neutralized, good, MP7, I have one of our mp7s, our only um select fire MP7, it has no bullets, one bullet, all the bullets, uh, symbology, which is always interesting.

This is another strangely redesigned weapon. You know, if you squint, it's pretty close. The real clue is the lack of this distinctive inclination. end cap here, which even games that have a very stylized MP7 tend to include because it's a fairly large part of the weapon's silhouette. Here it's straight, all the angles are wrong basi

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y, except the shape around the trigger guard, so this. There's a sort of accelerated section depicted here, but, for example, the selector lever is towards the back and works backwards, so it's actually quite strange because you have this flat front receiver but then an angled receiver on the back that It almost makes it seem like it. like the gun is upside down, it's not, but it looks a little like that.

Strangers like the look of this. I'm actually going to have some issues with the furniture of this, by which we mean the handguard, probably not the pistol grip and the stock this is the HK Echo 21 Model 21 so hk21 this is a hk21a1 so it's this um the first generation HK plastic lower receiver indeed I'm quite enthralled with reloading I think that's good, in fact all the gun handling in this game so far is actually very good, very very naturalistic, very well done, no I have seen obvious errors. I say that in the case of this gun because it has a rather unusual configuration that was originally designed or the platform at least for box magazines. detachable box loaders, this is of course a belt fed version of the H and K roller, as they call it roller lock system, they have essentially modeled it well.

I think they've modeled it correctly, so instead of a top cover with a feed tray like on most lift-it machine

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here, this weapon works like in the game with a rotating feed tray on the bottom, so which is a bit cumbersome compared to a top loading machine gun. There's a reason most belt-vented machine

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are top-loading. but essentially you pull out your belt from here, place it on the feed tray after you've locked the bolt open just like the reloading animation lock snaps into place, slam the handle bolt forward, the first round it's chambered, the first link flies out of the ground and off the side and you're ready to shoot and of course being an HK foreigner the camouflage on this is good enough that it's actually a little hard to tell which one it is the gun, but I like the way they've done the whoop net type camouflage. to move realistically in the sights, we have things wrapped around the gun and I think the suppressor also semi-disguises what is actually a version of the Barrett mrad multifunctional adaptive design that was developed from a rifle that we have.

It's called the m98b and here is the now sadly outdated Barrett m98b. The most obvious change apart from the color. I think they're all kind of desert tan. Now it is a folding stock, more modular, more adjustable than the integral one on the stock of the original. 0 I guess 300 Norma, which is substantially more powerful than even I think 300 Win, which is the Magnum, so a 300 or even a 338 would cause that level of destruction. I don't think so, but let's not dwell on that. that's too dramatic an effect for the purposes of the game, it's probably a bit Ott oh, thank you, very clear, the nap, uh, the venerable Kalashnikov, of course, is in this game and I think there would possibly be some kind of riot in In the real world if it wasn't, okay, clearly we have different configurations available, so the version I'm looking at here looks quite similar to the AK-203, but for some reason it doesn't just have the side rail. which is an old 70's Mountain solution for optic sites on the AK on the left side, but also the Picatinny rail top cover from something like the AK-200 series, they don't come with both and I'm sure you could build a AK that has both, I'm not sure why you would because it has a little extra weight on the left side for basically no reason as long as your top cover fits properly and is held zero for your site.

I would never want to mount something on the old side rail, now strangely grenade launchers, yes absolutely, AKs have grenade launchers, they don't. I don't know of a Picatinny type mount for the GP 30 series which is what we're on at the moment but strangely on the HUD it's called m203 obviously not a m203 unless m203 now means grenade launcher and about grenade launcher yes it should call yourself whatever gp25 gp30 gp34 uh, what do we do? I've faithfully depicted the muzzle-loading nature of the GP series of Soviet and now Russian grenade launchers where you push The Round In from the front, but I don't think anyone has been wrong so far and now I've been presented with a truly horrible experience. because of course a gold and chrome plated abomination that I'm now going to have to see, yes this is really over the top.

We have a gold plated collection from the former Iraqi regime called in this collection that seems tasteful in comparison. For this, this is two tone with the receiver in Chrome, various trim in Chrome and then some of the rest in gold plate and it absolutely screams Mexican drug cartel, so I suspect that is the case, if there is one. A context of this is probably where this comes from and in terms of having rails and accessories, yes those guys absolutely follow trends and customize their weapons, some of them are more old school but yes some of them are quite at the height. up to date and quite Gucci, as the foreign saying goes, James Bond pistol action here, that's the pistol, it's the six hour P220, we have a very shiny version here gold controls gold plated trigger Hammer decocking lever slide clasp of the magazine and kind of a custom polished slide finish and then on the top and if you can see that on this camera, but it's a Sig Medallion, but to be honest, I'm more interested in the playability here because, first of all, We have a lot of underwater gun shooting.

Guns or

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generally do not work very well underwater. You got it right. You know that water is incompressible but it can move away when it is in the body. The slide will move back, but it's like you have your thumb against it. or something like that, it won't necessarily come back enough to complete the cycle, which means that if I have a shot and then nothing happens, what we'll call pistol caliber bullets for the purposes of this conversation goes so slowly relative to the rifle caliber bullets that decelerate right out of the muzzle, so you get one shot because the mechanism is probably not going to work fully and then the bullet will decelerate, so definitely within no more than two meters probably least that bullet won't be completely out. -Lethal John Wick 3 covered this pretty well with the little pool where he shoots underwater and the two of them are trying to shoot each other and the bullets just go away, which means this is all nonsense, you can't go around shooting to people while you are underwater.

Oh, I didn't even mean no, it wasn't right. I had to squint a little at this rifle because I'm pretty sure it's based on the FN SCAR, but a bit like the non-P90, this is not a scar, lower receiver. it's actually quite different, the trigger guard enlarged, the scar has a rather slick shape on the sides of the receiver's low orbit with the beveled magazine well, this has a strange light illumination panel cut into itthe side, which makes it look quite different, but the ambidextrous magazine. The capture lever is a giveaway as to what the inspiration is here, as are some of the design cues on the upper receiver, it looks more like a scar than anything else and the made up French name on the side would do too. suggest that he is trying to be Belgian or not be Belgian for whatever reason and I think that makes this probably the scariest. that takes what is sometimes called the Ugg boot butt because, especially in the brown, it looks ugly, so when you change your pistol, which as we all know is faster than reloading, you get rid of your rifle and you take out your pistol and hold it with two hands, it seems that what they have now added is when you run out of ammo in your rifle As you will see in some tactical exercises, the shooter removes the shooting hand from the pistol.

The grip holds the rifle to one side, draws the gun with one hand, and you must continue shooting with the gun for it to be effective. It is a temporary solution. I've seen it in action movies, certainly, where you defend yourself or whatever with the gun. -holster that you then reload your rifle again, so it's even faster than switching to your pistol, so it makes sense that Call of Duty as a franchise would be the first to represent that, so I appreciate that foreigners that I know They were probably expecting that, those are the weapons of Modern Warfare two, two, as I'm going to call them now.

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