The 2005 Andrew Niccol crime drama "Lord of War" is an unsettling film about the morally corrupt world of arms dealing that plays it a little fast and loose with both its plot and facts, but one element of the movie is shockingly realistic: the guns.
In "Lord of War," Nicolas Cage stars as Yuri Orlov, an arms dealer who deals with seedy underworld types and international governments alike, and the movie follows him as he goes about a major deal buying and offloading Kalashnikov rifles, transporting them from Ukraine to Liberia and Sierra Leone, with all of the complications that can arise along the way. The rifles in the movie aren't prop rifles, but real ones, according to Niccol, who told The New York Daily News (via The New Zealand Herald ) that the decision wasn't about accuracy, bu

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