Firearms Expert Reacts To GTA 5’s Guns

this is jonathan ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum in the uk which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history and on this episode he's going to be checking out the varied weaponry of rockstar's crime classic grand theft auto 5. okay paul's there because we have a splendid view of the hilarious hand-drawn sight reticle that i'm going to assume this was made by trevor i mean it's such a spectacularly bad idea why not do it with some style if there are any other games guns and mechanics that you guys want to see jonathan break down let us know in the comment section below be sure to subscribe for more videos like this one and if you'd like to help out the royal army's museum and continue to support jonathan's work check out the links in the description of this video right over to jonathan well i i knew this going in this is grand theft auto of course but this thing is actually more wacky than it looks so apart from not really resembling any real firearms looks a little bit p7 but based on what this is supposed to be i'm not sure that's intentional what's funky about it is that when the slide locks open it locks open really far back it's almost as though a grand theft auto game hasn't thought through the mechanics of a firearm and it's so far back on the gun that it it's not going to work properly so it doesn't quite function as it ought to it's got the name shrewsbury or shrewsbury sorry on the side which is a town in england i'm assuming that's meant to be the maker so i'm interesting backstory potentially that i'm not aware of there all right another alleged product of the shrewsbury firearms company which has a rather nice red deer stag logo by the look of it appropriately british i suppose um the gun however isn't gun is very clearly based on a saiga 12 kalashnikov pattern 12 gauge or in this case 12 gouache because among among other pedantic aspects of my personality spelling and grammar is definitely are definitely two of them and point is they misspelled the word gage no that might be a deliberate mistake but it's quite funny that it's there so in very close detail this will be a theme this is not a super close match for the saga 12 it's based on but the general silhouette is basically the same and it performs much as you've seen the saga 12 in other games before it's a gas operated semi-automatic shotgun pretty devastating but much more of a competition shotgun really than a tactical one having said that i've definitely seen russian special forces or security forces toting them around so they are actually used for fighting purposes [Music] all right next up we've got an ak blinged out if i can bring myself to use that and the butt stock tells us right away that this is meant to be a chinese type 56-2 which is the side bowling buttstock version of the chinese copy of the ak but it's been kind of carteled up pretty severely with some somehow kind of carving and relief on the sheet metal receiver which i think would be a really bad idea okay so i think a bit of a quirk of the game's design heritage as a third person kind of lock-on shooter is that there's not a huge amount of recoil evident this ak is pretty laser laser accurate really there's not the classic climb up into the right that you'd expect from well the real thing actually never mind um the virtual version the first person view which i never experienced looks pretty good but has has the classic issue of the sights not being aligned so um you're using just the front sight to aim the rear sight is not equal height equal light as we as we tend to say it just kind of sits there looking pretty [Music] this is a really odd one uh especially because this is one of the standard pistols in the game so you see it in the hands of agents and all sorts of things whereas you'd expect to see something like a glock of course and it's some sort of really wacky machine pistol fully automatic pistol totally fictional i mean you could try and compare it to a few designs that appeared over the years but i would probably question all of those i think this is an entirely original or as close to entirely original as you can get for a video game for a nine millimeter machine pistol so in the world of gta everyone and their mum is running around with a machine pistol which i suppose fits that kind of checks out with the level of responsibility with firearms that people in gta games tend to show yeah this thing is far too controllable it's quite a weak stance that the players got there a bit of a bit of a weaver style stance not sufficient to support something that would be doing anything from 900 rounds per minute up not very controllable the muzzle would rise very very quickly there are people with the skill to control such things i'm not sure our guys are are those guys yeah and then as if the um dodgy pistol stance wasn't insufficient enough blind firing one-handed around the corner with a fully automatic pistol well i mean it happens in the criminal front of fraternity don't get me wrong but um you would be hitting even less than the player here is hitting probably mainly the sky and then potentially some poor people slash property slash pets down the road where the bullets land not a good idea for anyone really no that's pause can't take it oh lord okay so rpg-7 as i'm sure everyone has spotted with a weird hexagonal breech shield on the back there that should be a flat round plate around the breech otherwise it's reasonably correct but of course this one is neon pink with a white heat shield so they have modelled here a something approximating a pg-7 munition the back end doesn't look right it looks like a pipe bomb what it should be is a cardboard sleeve over some flick out metal fins which we don't see deploy when the thing is shot it it shoots like a rocket does so this is what should be a recoilless weapon with a rocket-assisted munition is depicted as a rocket launcher which is entirely expected interestingly in first person view we see the sights being used here somewhat realistically so we're aiming over using one of the higher settings but with this delightful pink paint job and i'm not sure if the site markings are there normally you have no site markings to be sure how many meters you're shooting out to but it seems to allow you to aim it with a bit more precision than in third person i ain't leave down for them get out of here i've seen a couple as well as shrewsbury the um apparently british firearms maker we've got this um von foyer company which i am informed i mean i was aware of what foyer meant fire vom is apparently the word from so from fire not an inappropriate name for a german firearms manufacturer and there are at least two german firearms manufacturer who make ar-15 patent rifles like this one although this one appears to be an a us-made voltore upper receiver i think very chunky blocky looking thing others have copied it and that big chunky round rail that almost looks fake but i think it's meant to be a daniel defense mfr which stands for modular float rail floated meaning that the rail doesn't contact the barrel at any point in other words this is actually a fairly legitimate setup the colors are a bit screwy silver bolts are not uncommon silver dust covers are a bit and then the white stock is kind of weird yeah for this game it's a fairly spot-on interpretation of a modern ar1500 [Music] this is clearly closely based on the m82 m107 barrett maybe with some bits of accuracy international thrown in i'm not sure the weight the weight handles isn't spot on the magazine should rock in not just not just slap in for example so interestingly the effect of this thing on target is less than i would expect for such an over-the-top game as gta the poor unfortunate struck by the enormous bullet simply drop in place they don't go flying back as so many in video games do another example of gta walking an interesting line between dare i say realism and um absolute insanity in some cases one real world advantage of big powerful rifles like the barrett is that they allow users to engage targets behind cover doesn't look like they've modeled that so the thin steel of a bus should be absolutely no problem for a 50 bmg round should basically go straight through pretty much unaffected and then hit whatever's on the other side so if you know someone's there you should be able to hit them [Applause] right this is in real life the kel tec ksg which is a dual magazine tube single barrel 12 gauge shotgun massive fudge on the reload on this thing possibly the other shotguns in the game i'm not sure a single cartridge introduced to one of the magazine tubes is sufficient to reload the complete weapon somehow so that really does feel like a throwback to what's meant to be a fun throwaway third person shooting experience where suddenly we're having to model it in in first person and for whatever reason we're not showing even like a super high speed comedy sped up shoving in all the rounds we don't even get that we just get one round needless to say that's that wouldn't i don't wish to be too critical but this might be the weakest the weakest sounding and recoiling desert eagle i've ever seen in a game looks pretty close for the mark 19 50 caliber but the the sound effect isn't particularly punchy at least not on my speakers and it doesn't recoil like the real thing does so i think we've got i think we've had a limitation here of a third person game turned into first person okay so we go back to the classic third person view with trevor here we see a much more exaggerated much more accurate depiction of how this thing flips at least the 50 caliber version how this thing muzzle flips quite quite dramatically nothing much you can do about that even if you are quite strong so it looks much more meaty and realistic from the third-person view not great from the first [Music] [Music] so not what i remember from the game but we are looking of course at a riff on the g36 hecarim [ __ ] g36 556 rifle the trigger group has different shape grip these things don't have the option like an ar-15 of different separate grips to swap out we're stuck with whatever's on that trigger group details at the trigger are obviously not right it's got a version of the classic hk b and t folding butt stock but it's different i get very much a sense of legal difference from this thing but what's not wrong per se i don't think is the magazine set up so the classic g36 has a rockin magazine arrangement but because it is modular you can replace the magazine well with a stanag or m16 so this will take ar15 and 16 magazines as well as its own translucent ones that it comes with and it has the catch here so the weird-looking magazine arrangement with a straight magazine although it's not a match for this by any means is something that has a parallel in reality but it's it's a it's a fudge overall to look deliberately different working pretty much as we'd expect except that it's firing from from the closed bolt which the mini uzi does not unless it's a semi-automatic version now i remember this as one of the classic gta weapons that you can use while driving exactly what we see happening here i mean it's a staple of action movies of course to drive one hand and shoot with the other not so convenient with the old stick shift that most of us in europe are it's gonna say stuck with but i'm a fan but it does limit your ability to shoot while driving which otherwise you could do um to what effect probably depends on your familiarity with shooting whilst driving you'd at least put some heads down i dare say [Music] i feel i have to introduce this one as it's a damn minigun name that film i'm sure you already have uh it looks a little chunky the barrel cluster looks a little bit enormous but short i don't know if the proportions are quite right but then the whole gun is a sort of pastiche of that terminator 2 predator gun in gta like so many video games it's just handheld it has no means of being powered it has no means of being fed with ammunition it just magically spawns rounds and fires them and then magically ejects the casings but then you know i i can completely see how trying to model all of that for a game where you pull guns out of thin air just isn't worth it so i get it so yeah as expected zero recoil on this thing they haven't even bothered to try and implement it it's like it's on a pedestal mount which which of course directs all the recoil forces through to multiple bolted arms on the floor of something very solid this is very much fantasyland there's a strong tradition in the gta games of fudging weapons generally but certainly in my memory the the smgs which have been based on numerous designs over the years this one is kind of the love child of an mp5 with that telescoping buttstock curved magazine the cocking handle where it is and probably this thing it's got the angular receiver the dimples over the magazine well not entirely convinced but it's it's a mashup of it's not a straightforward mp5 at least alright so what's this well this is the um chilean f-a-m-a-e-s-a-f bit of a mouthful but i think there's probably at least a family resemblance here and it's something different that we've not looked at before they all function pretty similarly not an ideal thing to be engaging armored opponents with so these guys are meant to be professional even if it's just soft body armor which it i guess it might well be pistol ammunition such as fired by both of these not ideal and yet we these guys go down like um nine pins [Applause] [Music] okay paul's there because we have a splendid view from first person of the hilarious hand-drawn sight reticle that i'm going to assume this was made by trevor that he has scrawled onto a piece of plastic glass set into the back blast shield on what is actually a fairly hilarious cardboard copy of the panzer shrek which is behind me i don't propose to wave about on camera it's pretty close in basic configuration why why you would base an improvised rocket launcher on panzer shrek rather than anything else i don't know i mean it's such a spectacularly bad idea why not do it with some style right not a common find on the streets of la or well i guess it is on the streets of los santos this is the russian originally soviet pkm or something close to it um the barrel looks a bit short the gas system definitely looks too short i think the stock's wrong but um it's clearly based on that now we've got two different feed devices on this thing there's a classic pkm pk style ammo box it's not it's not an it's not a magazine it just holds the belt of ammunition and then similarly but incorrectly we've got the equivalent feed device the round box thing from the rpd the smaller 762 by 39 russian light machine gun they've clearly put those in for a bit of unlockable upgradable variety and as i say this i'm sure someone somewhere has got a round drum on a pk type like machine gun general purpose machine gun but it's not normal needless to say but then what about gta is normal pick it up mikey my guns get hot we have as always links in the description to the royal armouries website various things going on social media and on-site at our three museums if you'd like to donate to us we really appreciate that and there's a link there to do that as well there's no pressure at all and we will see you again next time [Music] you

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Length: 18min 31sec (1111 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 06 2021

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Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of Grand Theft Auto 5, including a pink Rocket Launcher, an uncharacteristically quiet Desert Eagle, and a blinged out AK47.In the latest video in the Firearm Expert Reacts series, Jonathan Ferguson--a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries--breaks down the guns of GTA 5 and compares them to their real-life counterparts.If you're interested in seeing more of Jonathan's work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here.