Modern Weapons 1945 to 1982

When we speak of modern weapons, we mean concrete models. Our replicas of emblematic weapons that you will recognize them because they appear in movies, TV series and video games.

Like the Colt Python, a double-action revolver calibrated for the powerful .357 Magnum cartridge and employing Colt's large "I" frame. Pythons are renowned for their precision, smooth stroke trigger and solidly closing drum. Its mainly police use has taken them to the fame by its appearance in the screens. This revolver appears as one of the most powerful weapons of the first game of the saga Resident Evil. A variant of it appears in the game Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, Naughty Dog or Dead Frontier. Also appears in the series The Walking Dead, in which is the main weapon of Rick Grimes.

Or the 1947 Avtomat Kaláshnikova model, better known by its acronym, AK-47, it is a Soviet assault rifle, 7.62 mm caliber, designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Russian fighter during World War II. It was the Soviet Union's official rifle between 1947 and 1978. As of December 2007, the AK-47 is the highest-producing firearm in history, with about 80 million units manufactured.

Without leaving Russia, the Makárov PM (Pistolet Makárova, in Russian) is a semiautomatic pistol designed in the late 40s, by Nikolai Fyódorovich Makárov, and was the standard military auxiliary weapon of the Soviet Union from 1951 to 1991. Protagonist of innumerable episodes between spies in the cold war.

In the US, the M16 (officially Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16) is the designation of the Armed Forces of the United States for the rifle AR-15. It entered to the service of the United States Army and it was used for the first time for the operations of the Vietnam War in South Vietnam in 1963, becoming the standard gun of the US military in 1969,5 replacing in that role M14 rifle. The US Army maintained the M14 in service in the continental United States, Europe, and South Korea until 1970.