A job for Rico

The LA Times has an article about Richard Hooper: "Hooper, 53, has long had a fascination with weapons, even studying military history while attending college in the Cotswolds. "I was interested in firearms not necessarily because of shooting them particularly, but just because of the mechanics and the way that they've been built over the centuries," he says. "And the work of some of the antique ones in museums is phenomenal. . . . You sort of marvel at how crisp and precise the engineering is". At 19, Hooper began working at a London company that supplied different types of weaponry, reproductions and otherwise, for use in the film industry. After some two decades of stockpiling technique and information, he struck out on his own to become an independent armorer."

Rico says he always wanted to do guns in films; his own movies have plenty of guns in them.