Last week's Curator's Corner gave us a touch of Hollywood magic with a look at the rubber guns from Star Wars, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Dirty Harry. This week it's one movie, one gun, and one heck of a Curators' Corner episode.

For tonight, NRA National Firearms Museum Senior Curator Phil Schreier highlights the Heckler & Koch MP5 used in Die Hard 2. As Phil likes to point out, the HKs were used by a special forces unit sent in to hunt down the terrorist. What the good guys (Bruce Willis, et al) didn't know is that the special forces team was actually working with the terrorist. That's why you saw them switching magazines marked with red and blue tape so it only looked as if they were shooting live rounds at their pals when in fact (in the movie) they were only shooting blanks.

The HK MP5 was developed in Germany during the 1960s. The model used in the movie, the MP5A3, has an effective range of approximately 600 feet with a muzzle velocity of 1,300 feet per second. Weighing just over six pounds, this particular firearm is popular with military and law enforcement units in dozens of countries include Canada, Denmark, Italy, and the United States.

But for the whole story, including whether or not the special forces unit in Die Hard 2 could actually switch between blank and live rounds, join Phil tonight at 10:40 eastern standard time on Curator's Corner, broadcast live on NRANews.com or Sirius/XM Patriot Satellite Radio.