I need a couple, one that's sort of the typical gun an average Joe would have in his night stand for protection but maybe hasn't used in years (and that was at the firing range). Another would be a shotgun that a hillbilly would have. They don't have to fire blanks, just "look" real enough...I can weather them a little on my own to look older.
When my team and I were making my first short film BROKEN we really wanted to have functional and professional looking guns for the project.
Obviously we weren’t going to use real guns and getting our hands on working prop guns was too cost prohibited. We knew we could create some bad ass muzzle flashes in visual effects but I wanted to have some practical guns on set, that had blow back, to enhance the VFX and ultimately make the guns fights look real.
