$ to whoever can identify this laser!

[Droshi]

If anybody can tell me what kind of laser designators the girl is using in the movie Transporter 2, I will send them money. Not a lot granted, but I seriously want to know who makes these, so Ill send you some nontheless.

Email me the manufacturer; first one with the right answer wins!

Kevin@KMSAudioSolutions.com

[Moshe]

No thank you on the money if I'm right.

To me they look like modified Armalasers.

Armalaser.com

[RayB]

Good guess!

They do resemble Arma Lasers, but as shown in Droshi's pic, the casings are beefier, sculpted slightly different, and there are assembly screw holes in the wrong places--at least compared to a current Arma Laser models.

Auto-Laser was another possibility; but again, no cigar. Unless, what's shown in the movie still is an older model...

http://www.auto-laser.com/auto-laser/auto-laser.htm

My handgun encyclopedia shows some early European models, manufactured for specific gun makes, but no positive ID there either.

All the rail-mounted auto-on lasers are blocky like that, to make room for the inertial gizmo inside, that turns the laser on at draw...

And you're right about movie props being modified! Example: Miami Vice's Crockett was firing .45 ACP blanks from his 10 mm Bren Ten.

--Ray

[TDR_50]

LaserLyte? No it looks like Laser devices. Here is the link

http://www.laserdevices.com/infopage.asp?a=laser_pistol&id=16903&action=deviceresults.asp

[RayB]

Best match so far. But the web sight doesn't list one for Glock--only the Baby & Desert Eagle.

--Ray

[TDR_50]

Hey Ray I could easily be modified to fit . It uses the trigger gaurd and rail . Do you know what it is or we all fishing?
Tony Doukas

[Moshe]

Looks like the best match so far. Has the same protuding laser aperture. I think they just gave it a two-tone paint job painting the aperture silver, but with that triple-cut pattern (looks like some sort of locking washer rather than an aperture) - and modified it to fit.

Or we're all wrong and they're real and really come like that from some manufacturer.

We'll figure it out. We're people who have nothing better to do than figure this stuff out... so time is on our side. :tongueout:

[TDR_50]

Hey Moshe, I see you are in florida. I am in Pompano How bout you.

[RayB]

Fishing? Absolutely! :supergrin: Yours is the best guess so far.

Nothing better to do? Nothing BETTER to do?!!! :shocked: I want you to know that I represent that! :banana:

That does look like a retaining washer, glued over the laser aperture...

Props. In the original Star Trek, Bones' assorted medical scanners were all (unique) salt & pepper shakers... Next Gen's Borg made heavy use of rope lighting... Voyager's holodeck "grid" was the expand-o-wall structure sold with pop-up trade show displays... Even so, I love that stuff!

I used to live in Clearwater. One sister's in Dunedin. Florida is a "Stand Your Ground" state, and I like that! Here, we're more concerned with the perp's life story, and how society failed him... :crying:

--Ray

[TDR_50]

I think Laser Devices had them for glocks a while ago. The BA2 is slowly being discontinued for the new models. Or they could have modified them. What a job to make props and jazz up weapons for the movie industry.

[Moshe]

Originally posted by TDR_50
I think Laser Devices had them for glocks a while ago. The BA2 is slowly being discontinued for the new models. Or they could have modified them. What a job to make props and jazz up weapons for the movie industry.

That would be a really fun job. I know that I know somebody who does that for a living - for the life of me I can't remember who it is.

Somebody I went to college with. Saw his website and it was all about custom weapons for the movies as well as modifying real weapons to fire blanks and or eletronically detonated squibs. His company built them and rented them out by the hour (not cheap rates either). He charged per shot with the blank firing weapons and there was a rule that one of his company's technicians be present on any shoot utilizing their prop weapons.

They also specialized in manufacturing, setting up, and detonating the fake bullet hits that you see on the ground and on walls in shootout scenes as well as on people. Those weren't cheap either and were sold per "hit" with a premium on the vests and equipment to do human hit effects.

Everything about that industry seemed fascinating, from the unique ability to realistically fake such things, to the amount of money movie productions would pay for it. I wouldn't mind running a company like that at all. I'm sure it would be a blast (literally).

btw - TDR - I'm not too far from you. I'm down in South Miami.