To try to keep things from getting completely crazy, I'm limiting the number this time. there are a lot of guns in these episodes, too, but mostly the pictures aren't very clear, and it's the usual mix of submachine guns, pistols, one chain-fed machine gun which is probably .30 cal, and one riot weapon that fired a non-lethal impact round with four wings, sort of.

Anyway, below the fold, again.

At the beginning of ep 3, Aoi and Manami are preparing to go on the run. They both think they're fugitives, having seriously interfered with high level plans by big-time illuminati. Aoi packs up the few belongings she's going to take with her, including filling a guitar case with weapons and ammunition:

One pistol is the Beretta that James originally noted. (By the way, later in this episode when Manami is firing it, it lets off bursts of three, rather than just hosing.) The other pistol is a Browning Hi-power. CHALLENGE 01 is that rifle. Here are two more images of it:

It's got a telescopic site, and Aoi shoots out the tire on a fleeing car with it.

Aoi's routine carry weapon is CHALLENGE 02:

In ep 6, she's shown firing and reloading it. Here's the cartridges she uses:

It's got a Smith & Wesson logo on it, and it takes five cartridges. I don't assume this will be very difficult. (I bet James owns this one, in fact.)

Later in episode 4, our team ends up flying to Tokyo and visiting a famous shopping mall there. It seems that this is an alternate Earth, because there are some differences. For one thing, magic works. For another, it looks like the gun laws are quite a lot different. There are gun stores in the mall. Walking past one, Manami gets sucked in by this one, CHALLENGE 03, on display:

Like seriously sucked in. The "Rhino" logo plus some googling gave me the answer for this one, but I won't say what it is.

Meanwhile, Aoi is walking past another shop and sees this:

It's CHALLENGE 04. Aoi herself identifies it thusly: "The Colt 1916 from the Nikkatsu Noir movie?"

The label in the corner says 本平勿!! 日活 コルト  "This, of course, (is the) Nikkatsu Colt".

Only thing is, there's no such thing as a "Colt 1916". It looks to me like a customized M1911, perhaps created as a movie prop. But those bullets are not .45 ACP, so I'm not just sure what this thing is. It's possible that this is notional, something they invented for this show.

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