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Firearms Expert Reacts to Black’s Guns

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Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the guns from Black, including Jonathan’s favourite, the MP5, the hybrid pistol, the DC3 Elite, and a cursed-looking Walther 2000 sniper rifle.

00:00 - Opening
00:38 - DC3 Elite
01:33 - Magnum
02:50 - Mac 10 Elite
04:39 - MP5
07:07 - AK47
08:19 - G36C
10:28 - Walther 2000 Sniper Rifle
11:21 - M203
12:27 - Glock 19
13:29 - Uzi
14:56 - M16
15:46 - RPG-7

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 from Black and compares them to their real-life counterparts.

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If you're interested in seeing more of Jonathan's work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here. - royalarmouries

If you would like to support the Royal Armouries, you can make a charitable donation to the museum here. - https://royalarmouries.org/support-us...

And if you would like to become a member of the Royal Armouries, you can get a membership here. - https://royalarmouries.org/support-us...

You can either purchase Jonathan's book here. - https://www.headstamppublishing.com/b...

Or at the Royal Armouries shop here. - https://shop.royalarmouries.org/colle...

You can subscribe to the Armax Journal that Jonathan Associate Edited here: https://www.armaxjournal.org/

20 Comments

@IrregularDave 2 years ago Pinned

The Wonder Weapons of Call of Duty Zombies actually won our last community poll, but that episode is taking a little longer as we are at the whim of the weapon box for the most part 😅

But have no fear, that episode is coming soon! (™)

@Graptor91 2 years ago

"Someone has un-bullpup'd my bullpup, and I am furious!" I'm storing that for later

@BenfordAbrahams 2 years ago (edited)

My jaw actually for real just dropped seeing the notification. This game doesn't get talked about enough

@AkaraTheLost 2 years ago

10:42 That needs to be a t-shirt. "Someones un-bullpupped my bullbup, and I'm furious."

@Silverghost992 2 years ago (edited)

Black is one of the most underrated games ever made.

What this game did atmosphere and graphic wise was great considering the hardware at the time.

@0jutai 2 years ago

The Glock really stands out as "Odd" compared to all the other guns.

The rest are very stylised and generally have quite muddy looking textures. Then we get this weirdly high-resolution, basically 1-1 scale Glock with the logo on the side!

@deejaydragon8909 2 years ago

The thing about Black, as was very briefly stated, runs very heavily on Hollywood action movie tropes. So the huge fireball explosions, the loud punchy bassy gunshots, the double capacity magazines reflecting the seemingly bottomless magazines of movies, all very intentional.

@syrusalder7795 2 years ago

My ingame accuracy was like 5% because of how long id spend having imaginary gunfights with all the destroyable terrain

@JustAvoidNothinghere 2 years ago (edited)

Ah yes the that one FPS game on PS2, that always make me scared as a kid because the checkpoint music especially on the level 2 in dark forest.

And that one guy with ballistic mask and vests charging at you with SPAS-12 coming out of nowhere.

@mercenarygundam1487 2 years ago

MGS3 Snake Eater with Snake's geeking out over the M1911 custom. PLEASE!?

@LightrifyClips 2 years ago

16:10 - „Too thick in the rear.” - Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Musem in the U.K.

@NotHere-o6s 2 years ago

I want to see Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armories museum in the UK react to the weapons of Cruelty Squad.

@AE1OU 2 years ago

Please Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK, break down the weapons from METAL GEAR SOLID 3 before the remake comes out.
So many weapons in MGS3 to react and comment on like the Patriot's infinite ammo magazine, the EZ tranq gun, Snake's customized officer M1911A1, Snake whittling the pistol grip to use a knife for CQC, Ocelot's SAA juggling skills, The End's paratrooper tranquilizer Mosin Nagant, the Davey Crockett recoil-less nuclear launcher, Eva's chinese Type 17 mauser clone with her "bandit shooting" technique and Volgin's electricity discharging the 7.62mm bullets.
There are so many more other interesting trivias and weapons in MGS3 so please Dave and Johnathan, please consider making a video for the MGS3.

@Almost_Made_It 2 years ago

Black was so far ahead of its time. It might actually have the biggest influence on my current gun collection and I didn’t even realize it

@michaelanderson6394 2 years ago

Firstly, can we please get an episode on the Valkyria Chronicles series?

Second, this was a well overdue episode. If you didn’t know, the developers of this game, who had previously made racing games, used airsoft equipment for reference for some of the weapons, and a few were stylized simply to look cooler. The guns in this game aren’t exactly the most accurate. I’m interested to see Jonathan’s take on them.

@winlover37 2 years ago

This game's focus and attention to detail on gun style feels so ahead of its time in retrospect. This is before weapon inspects were a thing.

@Deros1331 2 years ago

Ahh yes, 2006's "Shooty Mc-shoots-a-lot and his billion of bullet buddies". Love this game and have lots of good memories about it even if it wasn't the most realistic. Thanks for high-lighting it!

@callmeduck_13 2 years ago

As others have said, "someone has un-bullpupped my bullpup and I'm furious" is a golden line. However, I am still flabbergasted by the grenade launcher's reload.