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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
You're not going to try to tell me that there's a real hand-held 7.62mm minigun? The XM214 could be fired hand-hand after a fashion, but that gun in Predator was pure fiction.
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The Predator/T2 minigun was geared down to 1,250 rounds per minute. Back when it first came onto the open market it came with a set of blanked and a set of live barrels. I have a friend who knows the current owner and it has been used with live ammo on occation.
the Predator/T2 minigun was partially designed and built by Jesse Ventura(mainly the ammo backpack and the carrying harness). for T2 it was redesigned by Harry Lu to the configuration that is most commonly used Today. It was sold off when Stembridge gun rentals went out of buisiness. Currently it is in the hands of Dan Shea of Small arms Review and Longmountain outfitters.
The Minigun from the Second Resident Evil movie is a real Minigun that was cut down to almost nothing and placed in an aluminum shell. Even with blanks the muzzleblast was incredible according to Al Verkjan the armorer who built the weapon.
Armorer Steve Karnes has built three different handheld Miniguns for film useing Dillan Aero Miniguns(GI Joe, Terminator Salvation and Transformer's 2). Those miniguns are two M134D and one M134DT. he's used carbon fiber for the ammo packs and modified the feeding system to feed into the weapon from the same side as it comes out of the backpack. I'll have to ask him if he's changed the gear ratio on the weapons.
As far as the EX-41 goes It's a very cool prototype weapon.Thankfully Paul doesn't confuse it with the China Lake Grenade launcher.