#LarryZanoff

If you’ve watched any movie with a gun in it within the last 20 years, you’ve probably seen Larry’s work. Larry Zanoff, famous for Hollywood Weapons and an armorer at the legendary prop house Independent Studio Services (ISS), joins us once again on the TFB Behind The Gun Podcast to talk about how the gun side of the Hollywood film industry survived the massive disruption that was COVID, as well as some of his favorite jobs that he and ISS have taken on as part of their job as providers of prop guns for all types of films, TV shows, and procedurals. Please join Pete and Larry as they chat about the ups and downs of putting firearms on the Silver Screen including some thoughts on the “ Rust Incident” that happened a while back and where he thinks things could have gone differently.

When Hollywood’s film and TV creators need prop guns of virtually any flavor, they turn to the first word in silver screen firearms: Independent Studio Services. In their forty-year history, ISS has grown from one man and his garage to become the largest prop house in the world, with eleven locations in the US and Europe. A major component of their impressive 1.5 million piece inventory is the largest private armory in North America, with more than 15,000 firearms. ISS can provide period-correct historical weapons, blank-firing modern guns, they can customize existing weapons and dress them up to be futuristic sci-fi pieces, and more. Their prop guns, armorers, and technical advisors need so many blanks for all the productions they work on, ISS even founded a sister company, High Desert Theatrical Blanks, just to manufacture screen-purposed ammo. The key gun guru behind this massive operation is lifelong firearms professional Larry Zanoff.

Nerd out with James in this episode four of the “ TFBTV Goes to Hollywood” series. Today, we are talking about the real guns of Joss Whedon’s Firefly TV series and the Serenity film. Did you know that Mal’s Moses Brothers Self-Defense Engine Frontier Model B is actually a working Taurus Model 85? Larry Zanoff and James handle and talk about the guns from this cult classic series, discuss what they were made from and how the concepts came to life. This is a must-watch for gun guys who love their space westerns, too.

In this episode, TFBTV GOES TO HOLLYWOOD! (Well, technically Burbank, California.) This video is a part of a 5 episode series covering guns used in cinema and film, and we kick off the playlist with this Episode 1, “The Top 5 Most Expensive Guns from Movies”. In terms of episode ones, we think this ep one is better than Star Wars’ ep one, but that’s not setting the bar too high. Anyways, Larry Zanoff, as the head honcho at Independent Studio Services (or “ISS”), runs perhaps the biggest movie prop house in the world, and oversees an arsenal of over SIXTEEN THOUSAND GUNS. Today, Larry tells us about the 5 most expensive guns in the collection.

Hello everyone and welcome back to TFB’s Behind The Gun Podcast. For episode three we bring you our friend Larry Zanoff from Independent Studio Services (ISS Props) and Hollywood Weapons on the Outdoor Channel. Larry is an amazing person with a vast knowledge of weaponry and gunsmithing as well as a deep knowledge of the entertainment and firearms industry. I sat down with Larry in January of 2020 in Las Vegas at SHOT Show. The conversation could have easily of ran for hours. Listen in as Larry Zanoff dives into the world of firearms in the entertainment industry.

In this episode of TFBTV, James takes you behind the scenes of the Outdoor Network program, Hollywood Weapons, which is also available for streaming on Netflix. As you will see from this mini-documentary, Hollywood Weapons is an excellent show for firearms enthusiasts, gun guys, special effects nerds, and movie buffs as well. The show looks at famous gun stunts from popular films and tests them in real life to see if the stunts play out in the real world the same way they did in the movies…or if it’s just gun fantasy. And there are no two better co-hosts than Terry Schappert and Larry Zanoff. Terry is an Army Special Forces veteran, and Larry is one of the main principals from Independent Studio Services, Hollywood’s biggest gun prop company. James Reeves interviews Terry, Larry, and other members of the #HollywoodWeapons crew today on TFBTV.

On Saturday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m. EST, hosts Larry Zanoff and Terry Schappert kick off the new season of Hollywood Weapons premiering on the Outdoor Channel. The two expert gun handlers use each episode of their show to walk through movie scenes and separate reality from Hollywood legend, dissecting the most popular action movie sequences ever produced.