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Models and types of guns that saw little to no production in reality are more likely to show up in fiction. Sometimes, the number of appearances of a weapon on TV can outnumber its actual production run. This trope is common in Anime, due to the obsession many writers have with technical and historical details. Each firearm is listed alphabetically. See also Rare Vehicles, Family-Friendly Firearms, Cool Guns and Improbable Use of a Weapon. Compare Selective Historical Armoury, where firearms that should be present are absent. See also the Internet Movie Firearms Database site for more.

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  • Rare Guns
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  • Models and types of guns that saw little to no production in reality are more likely to show up in fiction. Sometimes, the number of appearances of a weapon on TV can outnumber its actual production run. This trope is common in Anime, due to the obsession many writers have with technical and historical details. Each firearm is listed alphabetically. See also Rare Vehicles, Family-Friendly Firearms, Cool Guns and Improbable Use of a Weapon. Compare Selective Historical Armoury, where firearms that should be present are absent. See also the Internet Movie Firearms Database site for more.
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  • Models and types of guns that saw little to no production in reality are more likely to show up in fiction. Sometimes, the number of appearances of a weapon on TV can outnumber its actual production run. This is mostly due to the fact that some models of gun can look incredibly cool or futuristic despite having real-life problems with their functionality or production that make them unpopular or dismal failures. Or it could be a case of a writer wanting to show they did their research by deliberately picking form over function without going completely into the realm of fiction. Of course, no one's supposed to care. Remember that this trope is not about rare guns that appear once or twice in a work of fiction, or are an available weapon in a game. It only applies to rare weapons that appear in much larger numbers than they should or did in the real world, or firearms that are prohibitively expensive, difficult to use, or otherwise impractical but yet appear in the hands of many characters. A common justification is that the wielder/orderer of these weapons has an astounding amount of money, is extremely skilled with it, or it has become increasingly successful. This trope is common in Anime, due to the obsession many writers have with technical and historical details. Each firearm is listed alphabetically. See also Rare Vehicles, Family-Friendly Firearms, Cool Guns and Improbable Use of a Weapon. Compare Selective Historical Armoury, where firearms that should be present are absent. See also the Internet Movie Firearms Database site for more. Examples of Rare Guns include:
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