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When "Lethal Weapon" was released in 1987, the Beretta M9 had already been selected as the winner of the XM9 trials. However, the movie put the Beretta 92 in the spotlight and attached a "cool" factor. Not aware of any statistics, but I would imagine that it contributed in some respects to Beretta 92 sales.
I remember sitting in the theatre in 1984 watching "The Terminator". Seeing the Franchi SPAS 12 shotgun in action, I can recall thinking "Damn, that's one awesome shotgun. Can you buy those?" Not too much later I did end up buying one.
In the 1970's, Hollywood seemed fond of using the Armalite AR-180 in many movies and TV shows. I recall seeing it in everything from the old "S.W.A.T." series (where it was featured prominently in an episode called "The Bravo Enigma") to "T.J. Hooker". Don't know if the publicity convinced anyone to purchase one, but who knows?
Looking at the more common firearms in decades past such as the AR-15 and M1911, I'm not sure if there were many particular TV shows or movies in which these guns made such an impression that would move someone to go out and buy one. The AR-15 hit the TV screen in a big way with the previously mentioned "S.W.A.T." in the mid-1970's, and this was before there was much in the way of Vietnam-related content. Given the immense popularity of the show in it's two-season run, I'd bet that it helped sell an SP-1 or two.
Thoughts/opinions?
Allegedly Dirty Harry and the S&W Model 29 was possibly the biggest sales booster.
Magnum carried a 1911, my dad had a 1911. Must be the best gun there is then. ;) Good enough reasoning for my juvenile little mind.
Course now I'm older and I still like 1911s... ?brainwashed? :p
I've always wanted the porcelain German Glock 7 but have yet to find one. Just as well, though, as it probably costs more than I make in a month.
Ditto the S&W model 29 from Dirty Harry!
The Terminator also made a star out of the little known John Browning-designed Winchester Model 1887 lever-action shotgun; LOVE those scenes of Arnold racking the next round whilst flipping it around on the motorcycle chase scene!
Pacific5th
07-11-21, 09:50
Not a movie but A Team sold god knows how many Mini-14’s.
Just about any movie in the '80s with an MP5. Especially who dares wins/final option.
Saving private Ryan and Band of Brothers for any WW2 related weapon both for shooting and collecting.
Desert Eagle hands down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAkSX5WOtiA
Desert Eagle in "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kItLDGtPMMI&t=2s
MikhailBarracuda91
07-11-21, 10:20
Watching Robocop as a kid I always wanted an ED-209. When I turned 18 I bought my first one, now 12 years later, the ED-209 is still is still part of my everyday rotation.
Pretty much the only downside is stairs, but other than that "most" of the bugs have been worked out since the original ones in 1987.
I highly recommend them.
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IMHO DIE HARD had more influence on 92 sales than did LETHAL WEAPON.
What I can’t fathom is how JAMES BOND and the PPK have not been mentioned.
"The Wild Geese" (1978) introduced a lot of Americans to the FAL. Although in 1978 I'm not sure if there were any civvie versions on the market?
https://i.imgur.com/UyfJsPa.jpg
Unrelated: That DPM camo really rocked back then:
https://i.imgur.com/TvrfiWV.jpg
Diamondback
07-11-21, 12:00
Before most "gun movies" there was the Executioner series of pulp novels and the .44 Automag...
Tombstone deserves a mention here for bringing the Old West back mainstream. Wish somebody made affordable side-by-sides to the Greener design like Doc's... (Yes, the movie gun was an EAA Bounty Hunter II, made by Izhmash--when fact and depiction clash, I go with historical record.)
BoringGuy45
07-11-21, 12:05
I remember there was an uptick in interest in the M14 after Black Hawk Down. The scene with Gordon and Shuggart got a lot of people I know, including myself, into drooling over customized M14s. I never got the money to buy one though.
titsonritz
07-11-21, 13:30
I remember sitting in the theatre in 1984 watching "The Terminator". Seeing the Franchi SPAS 12 shotgun in action, I can recall thinking "Damn, that's one awesome shotgun. Can you buy those?" Not too much later I did end up buying one.
In the 1970's, Hollywood seemed fond of using the Armalite AR-180 in many movies and TV shows. I recall seeing it in everything from the old "S.W.A.T." series (where it was featured prominently in an episode called "The Bravo Enigma") to "T.J. Hooker". Don't know if the publicity convinced anyone to purchase one, but who knows?
The AR-180/AR-18 was also used in Terminator along side the SPAS-12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2pnjIR_M1Y
titsonritz
07-11-21, 13:31
Not to mention "Da .45 long slide with laser sighting" and "Da Uzi 9mm"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXgc37rBenY
"Red Dawn" Oh yeah, those lousy Commie Bastards are for sure coming up from Mexico at any moment. Buy anything that shoots, and looks badass! Because.... you never know!
titsonritz
07-11-21, 13:53
Not sure how much sales where influenced (if at all) but I was always hot and slobbery for the Galil ARM .308 which I believe made its dubut on "Miami Vice" and I dig Benicio del Toro banging away with one in "The Way of the Gun".
Allegedly Dirty Harry and the S&W Model 29 was possibly the biggest sales booster.
Probably the first movie that generated significant gun sales. I remember a bunch of my dads dealer friends talking about how backordered that one was.
IMHO DIE HARD had more influence on 92 sales than did LETHAL WEAPON.
What I can’t fathom is how JAMES BOND and the PPK have not been mentioned.
Everyone wanted one, but after 1968 you couldn't get them imported anymore. But demand let to the creation of the PPK/S.
I’d say video games such as the Call of Duty franchise have had every bit, if not more of an influence on modern firearms purchases than movies.
That being said, ive wanted a 733 ever since I watched HEAT.
Probably no one would have ever known what an AUG is without Die Hard. Couldn't tell you what the quantity sold was but I'd bet that the percentage is very, very high.
titsonritz
07-11-21, 20:37
Everyone wanted one, but after 1968 you couldn't get them imported anymore. But demand let to the creation of the PPK/S.
Yep, true. I had one back in the '80s, but always wanted a PPK.
Probably no one would have ever known what an AUG is without Die Hard. Couldn't tell you what the quantity sold was but I'd bet that the percentage is very, very high.
There was a Miami Vice episode or 2 that used them, but Die Hard had to be the first prominent use of one.
Everyone wanted one, but after 1968 you couldn't get them imported anymore. But demand let to the creation of the PPK/S.
One word, Interarms.
Probably no one would have ever known what an AUG is without Die Hard. Couldn't tell you what the quantity sold was but I'd bet that the percentage is very, very high.
Problem was Die Hard premiered summer of 88 and AUGs were banned from import September of 1989 along with pretty much everything else.
One word, Interarms.
True PPKs were only recently exempted from import restrictions. The only ones you could buy during the Bond years where he actually used a PPK were pre68 imports. Most people had to settle for a Walther PP.
hotrodder636
07-12-21, 07:21
A few years later, (second time this one comes up in the thread) Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.
Probably no one would have ever known what an AUG is without Die Hard. Couldn't tell you what the quantity sold was but I'd bet that the percentage is very, very high.
Yes on many already posted. I did think of the 454 Casull in Breaking Point. David Soul seemed to have an affinity for Colt Pythons in the Dirty Harry movie "Magnum Force" and of course in Starsky and Hutch on TV. I did want an old Colt revolver after watching The Untouchables. I'll bet I wasn't the only one looking for a 1917 revolver after watching Fury.
Yes on many already posted. I did think of the 454 Casull in Breaking Point. David Soul seemed to have an affinity for Colt Pythons in the Dirty Harry movie "Magnum Force" and of course in Starsky and Hutch on TV. I did want an old Colt revolver after watching The Untouchables. I'll bet I wasn't the only one looking for a 1917 revolver after watching Fury.
Yes, but to be fair, I'd been wanting one since the 80's and watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. Sure it was cut down to 4" and re-crowned, but it just sings to me.
Didn't Gerald McRaney use a 629 in the TV show Simon & Simon? I feel like the big bored, long barreled revolver was the standout "Hero" weapon of the 70's and 80's, until semi autos became more prevalent later on and into the 90's particularly the Beretta(seemed like every movie was using them or the Taurus version), and maybe the Desert Eagle for the "standout hero weapon".
Yes, but to be fair, I'd been wanting one since the 80's and watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. Sure it was cut down to 4" and re-crowned, but it just sings to me.
Didn't Gerald McRaney use a 629 in the TV show Simon & Simon? I feel like the big bored, long barreled revolver was the standout "Hero" weapon of the 70's and 80's, until semi autos became more prevalent later on and into the 90's particularly the Beretta(seemed like every movie was using them or the Taurus version), and maybe the Desert Eagle for the "standout hero weapon".
Yes he did, as did Walker, Texas Ranger.
Grand58742
07-12-21, 12:10
There was a Miami Vice episode or 2 that used them, but Die Hard had to be the first prominent use of one.
Don't forget about the Bren 10 from that series.
titsonritz
07-12-21, 12:31
Don't forget about the Bren 10 from that series.
Yeah but it didn't influence many gun sales (just wishes) much because there weren't many to buy and some of those didn't have magazines. :lol:
Yes on many already posted. I did think of the 454 Casull in Breaking Point. David Soul seemed to have an affinity for Colt Pythons in the Dirty Harry movie "Magnum Force" and of course in Starsky and Hutch on TV. I did want an old Colt revolver after watching The Untouchables. I'll bet I wasn't the only one looking for a 1917 revolver after watching Fury.
The Walking Dead made me remember just how good the Python looks.
Andy
titsonritz
07-12-21, 14:15
The Walking Dead made me remember just how good the Python looks.
Andy
I wouldn't doubt if the interest generated from that show had something to do with Colt reproducing the new ones.
Die Hard is the reason I have an AUG sitting in the safe. Merc movies are the reason I want a Galil and FAL.
Die Hard is the reason I have an AUG sitting in the safe. Merc movies are the reason I want a Galil and FAL.
Die Hard is the reason I had 6 MP5s at one time. That film was a HK commercial.
The Maltese Falcon (1941) made me really want a Webley–Fosbery auto revolver.
Don't forget about the Bren 10 from that series.
If Dornaus & Dixon had got it together I bet it would have been a sales boon.
A relative of a school friend back then bought a S&W .45 when they switched Crockett to one though.
Die Hard, The Package, Three Days of the Condor, Terminator, T2, Red Dawn, Full Metal Jacket, True Lies, Ronin, Heat, Commando, Running Man, Platoon, TAPS, to name a few for piquing specific interests for me.
Zombieland; that mares leg 357 lever action that Woody Harrelson carries must have sparked some interest because I started seeing more and more stockless lever action "pistols" soon after that movie and not many since.
Five_Point_Five_Six
07-12-21, 22:33
I’d say video games such as the Call of Duty franchise have had every bit, if not more of an influence on modern firearms purchases than movies.
That being said, ive wanted a 733 ever since I watched HEAT.
I tend to agree. I have nephews and other relatives who first got into airsoft clones of COD guns and later into real firearms. I think gen X is the last generation to be more influenced by tv and movies than other things.
If Dornaus & Dixon had got it together I bet it would have been a sales boon.
A relative of a school friend back then bought a S&W .45 when they switched Crockett to one though.
If that Smith didn't have such a horrible trigger I'd have bought one. Stuns me that S&W wheel guns can have such amazing triggers but their 80s era auto's could suck so bad. More creep in that trigger than Joe Biden at a high school prom.
RioGrandeGreen
07-14-21, 02:02
If that Smith didn't have such a horrible trigger I'd have bought one. Stuns me that S&W wheel guns can have such amazing triggers but their 80s era auto's could suck so bad. More creep in that trigger than Joe Biden at a high school prom.
That's sig line materiel right there.
I tend to agree. I have nephews and other relatives who first got into airsoft clones of COD guns and later into real firearms. I think gen X is the last generation to be more influenced by tv and movies than other things.
Think this is true for younger generations. I grew up in the 80s and while I watched most of the movies/shows mentioned a lot were from when I was a kid and too young to buy anything.
Fast forward to the 2000s and it was games like Syphon Filter that had guns like the HK G11 (also in Demolition Man) that got me looking into guns again and what else was out there.
Other games for me would be:
Splinter Cell - Gabe has a P2000
SOCOM - favorites were M4, SR25
COD Modern Warfare had tons of great stuff in it.
But back to movies...
At the end of Casino Royal, Bond (Daniel Craig) has a UMP9 with suppressor. I'd love to have one of those. Before I owned any firearms I rented a UMP45 a bunch of times.
Syphon Filter.
I was just sitting here trying to remember the name of that game. I played the crap out of the first one and didn’t know there were so many follow on games. I got out of PlayStation around 2000 because that’s when I figured out what girls were. I didn’t start gaming again until COD 2 and 4 became a big thing on Xbox. I’d venture to say the COD franchise currently has more gun influence on youngsters that movies do. It’s why I want a Street Sweeper, ACR and various others.
Jurassic World’s Marlin 1895 SBL got some attention, as non-gun people were asking me about it.
https://i.imgur.com/YLKOuyg.jpg
Five_Point_Five_Six
07-14-21, 12:30
Think this is true for younger generations. I grew up in the 80s and while I watched most of the movies/shows mentioned a lot were from when I was a kid and too young to buy anything.
Fast forward to the 2000s and it was games like Syphon Filter that had guns like the HK G11 (also in Demolition Man) that got me looking into guns again and what else was out there.
Other games for me would be:
Splinter Cell - Gabe has a P2000
SOCOM - favorites were M4, SR25
COD Modern Warfare had tons of great stuff in it.
But back to movies...
At the end of Casino Royal, Bond (Daniel Craig) has a UMP9 with suppressor. I'd love to have one of those. Before I owned any firearms I rented a UMP45 a bunch of times.
That's basically what I'm saying. I grew up in the 80s as well before I could buy any of the guns I lusted over either, but that desire to own guns carried until I was old enough and could afford them.
Reba McIntyre's wall of guns in "Tremors"
titsonritz
07-14-21, 14:28
Reba McIntyre's wall of guns in "Tremors"
"Broke into the wrong God Damn rec room didn't you, You Bastard." -Burt Gummer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFNBUs7O-h4
Watching Robocop as a kid I always wanted an ED-209. When I turned 18 I bought my first one, now 12 years later, the ED-209 is still is still part of my everyday rotation.
Pretty much the only downside is stairs, but other than that "most" of the bugs have been worked out since the original ones in 1987.
I highly recommend them.
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LOL. Well played.
I still want a Tommy Gun. I know they're semiautomatic now, and heavy, and probably modestly accurate, but there's a certain "F you!" With them.
Had a friend in school that had an auto .45, something akin to Tommy gun, but not. Anyone know what else it might have been? A Reising? Were there others?
Jurassic World’s Marlin 1895 SBL got some attention, as non-gun people were asking me about it.
Ah that’s a good one…the 1895 SBL in Wind River caused a buddy to buy one.
The hits of the 45-70 are overdone but there are a couple of great gun fight scenes in that film.
ETA:
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MikhailBarracuda91
07-14-21, 22:08
LOL. Well played.
I still want a Tommy Gun. I know they're semiautomatic now, and heavy, and probably modestly accurate, but there's a certain "F you!" With them.
Had a friend in school that had an auto .45, something akin to Tommy gun, but not. Anyone know what else it might have been? A Reising? Were there others?A Tommy Gun is on my bucket list. Boardwalk Empire is probably what did it for me.
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titsonritz
07-15-21, 00:54
LOL. Well played.
I still want a Tommy Gun. I know they're semiautomatic now, and heavy, and probably modestly accurate, but there's a certain "F you!" With them.
Had a friend in school that had an auto .45, something akin to Tommy gun, but not. Anyone know what else it might have been? A Reising? Were there others?
I'm still kicking myself in the ass for not buying one in 10mm. I figure if I'm stuff with a 16" barrel may as well have a round the will really benefit from it.
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/full-power-full-auto-the-thompson-goes-metric-and-the-mp5-goes-american/
LOL. Well played.
I still want a Tommy Gun. I know they're semiautomatic now, and heavy, and probably modestly accurate, but there's a certain "F you!" With them.
Had a friend in school that had an auto .45, something akin to Tommy gun, but not. Anyone know what else it might have been? A Reising? Were there others?
Probably a Commando Mark III, super cheap, poorly made but if I remember right they were an open bolt design.
https://www.gunsamerica.com/userimages/5263/976948525/wm_572707.jpg
But one of the biggest pieces of crap, goober wannabe guns you ever saw. It's like if Hi Point came out with a MP5 "profile" design that looked like a MP5 but otherwise was still 100% hi point.
I was just sitting here trying to remember the name of that game. I played the crap out of the first one and didn’t know there were so many follow on games. I got out of PlayStation around 2000 because that’s when I figured out what girls were. I didn’t start gaming again until COD 2 and 4 became a big thing on Xbox. I’d venture to say the COD franchise currently has more gun influence on youngsters that movies do. It’s why I want a Street Sweeper, ACR and various others.There were a few of the syphon filter games. I played all of them but I dont think I ever managed to beat any but one of the last ones. I remember one they did a redesign of the game and you could customize how your character lioked as well as unlock all the different weapons. That's the one where I used the G11 a bit for the 3rnd burst.
For as many games that featured the ACR you'd think it was more popular. But due to the horror show that was Bushmaster, the 2k they were selling for it didn't didn't push that many to go from buying a 60 dollar game to buying the real rifle.
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That's basically what I'm saying. I grew up in the 80s as well before I could buy any of the guns I lusted over either, but that desire to own guns carried until I was old enough and could afford them.I had a while between when I was more into dirt bijes and car racing. Was not till my late 20s when I was living with my girlfriend (now wife) that I started getting more into gaming. I was normally done at 5 for work and she worked a lot of closing shits and weekends. Had plenty of time to game online with some buddies. Wasn't till a few more years till I actually started renting at indoor ranges and then finally purchased my own rifle.
I try not to think about all the time playing on line where I could have been hoarding ammo collecting and trips to the range.
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The movie guns I always wanted were just nearly unobtainable or unrealistic.
-Star Trek Phaser
-Compact centerfire pistol that is actually Hollywood quiet and doesn't need liquid or wipes
-Machineguns like an UZI, RPD, or M60
-Explody things like RPG's, Mortors, or at least an M79.
-Aliens "Pulse rifle"
Stuff like that.
Or, guns I thought would be neat, but through learning or experience realized I was no longer interested in:
-Single action revolvers
-Shotguns with no stock
-Desert Eagle
-Beretta M9
-1911's
So, I dont have a single gun because I liked it in a movie or book.
But sometimes the opposite situation occurs when I see a gun I have or had in a movie and say, "oh! I've got / had one of those!"
WickedWillis
07-15-21, 16:09
I own a USP 45 because of Collateral.
titsonritz
07-15-21, 20:16
I own a USP 45 because of Collateral.
Prior to Collateral, Tom Cruise did not have live ammunition experience with a pistol and thus underwent extensive firearms training former SAS (British Special Air Service) operator Mick Gould and former LAPD SWAT Chic Daniel in order to reflect the Special Forces training that his character would have. Cruise trained in several combat scenarios using live ammunition on the LA Sheriff's Department shooting range.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Collateral
All those previous action flicks and no live fire experience? What a little tit.
Prior to Collateral, Tom Cruise did not have live ammunition experience with a pistol and thus underwent extensive firearms training former SAS (British Special Air Service) operator Mick Gould and former LAPD SWAT Chic Daniel in order to reflect the Special Forces training that his character would have. Cruise trained in several combat scenarios using live ammunition on the LA Sheriff's Department shooting range.
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Collateral
All those previous action flicks and no live fire experience? What a little tit.
He's an actor, not a gunfighter, why would he. The only reason he did it that time was because it was a Michael Mann film and Mann is noted for his firearms authenticity. Outside of that Cruise lives in a bubble where he has no need to ever touch an actual firearm or worry about his own personal security beyond scandal sheets trying to get photographic proof of his alleged homosexual preference.
Not a fan or a critic. He's done some ok films, he's done some terrible films.
titsonritz
07-16-21, 00:12
He's an actor, not a gunfighter, why would he. The only reason he did it that time was because it was a Michael Mann film and Mann is noted for his firearms authenticity. Outside of that Cruise lives in a bubble where he has no need to ever touch an actual firearm or worry about his own personal security beyond scandal sheets trying to get photographic proof of his alleged homosexual preference.
Not a fan or a critic. He's done some ok films, he's done some terrible films.
I know he is not into them and is even probably your typical lefty anti but for all the action films he has been it it still surprises me that was the first movie he had actual training, ever. I'm the same, not fan or hater.
I know he is not into them and is even probably your typical lefty anti but for all the action films he has been it it still surprises me that was the first movie he had actual training, ever. I'm the same, not fan or hater.
I think with the creation of films with credible scenes (and it kinda starts with Heat) the bar kept getting higher and higher to the point where Mark Walhberg actually did some serious long distance shooting to prepare for the role and look "correct" and then you have films like "Act of Valor" where actual SEAL teams show you what an assault looks like. By the time you get to the Bin Laden raid in Zero Dark Thirty you have very knowledgeable people watching the film just looking for somebody to be using the wrong suppressor or have an Eotech mounted backwards.
Long gone are the days when Tom Berringer can say goofy shit in his Sniper films and not have everyone call him on it. If Arnold made "Predator" today we'd absolutely savage that film, but for most of us it's a cherished memory from a time when we didn't know the barrel twist of every generation of every Colt rifle ever made.
Cruise also did the immersion thing in "The Last Samurai" in order to have passable sword skills and other things. I think he takes it seriously and I'd rather see Cruise trying to master the intricacies of the katana than listen to a bunch of Hollywood elites bloviate about how scary talented Meryl Streep is or discuss the brilliant of Woody Allen.
So I try and give credit where it's due, after all most of Hollywood never actually held a gun. Go watch "Taxi Driver" with the sound off and DeNiro flinches really bad on every shot in the gun range scene. Not exactly the hardcore former Marine that he was portraying. We've come a long way.
Five_Point_Five_Six
07-16-21, 09:57
I think with the creation of films with credible scenes (and it kinda starts with Heat) the bar kept getting higher and higher to the point where Mark Walhberg actually did some serious long distance shooting to prepare for the role and look "correct" and then you have films like "Act of Valor" where actual SEAL teams show you what an assault looks like. By the time you get to the Bin Laden raid in Zero Dark Thirty you have very knowledgeable people watching the film just looking for somebody to be using the wrong suppressor or have an Eotech mounted backwards.
Long gone are the days when Tom Berringer can say goofy shit in his Sniper films and not have everyone call him on it. If Arnold made "Predator" today we'd absolutely savage that film, but for most of us it's a cherished memory from a time when we didn't know the barrel twist of every generation of every Colt rifle ever made.
Cruise also did the immersion thing in "The Last Samurai" in order to have passable sword skills and other things. I think he takes it seriously and I'd rather see Cruise trying to master the intricacies of the katana than listen to a bunch of Hollywood elites bloviate about how scary talented Meryl Streep is or discuss the brilliant of Woody Allen.
So I try and give credit where it's due, after all most of Hollywood never actually held a gun. Go watch "Taxi Driver" with the sound off and DeNiro flinches really bad on every shot in the gun range scene. Not exactly the hardcore former Marine that he was portraying. We've come a long way.
I tried watching Sniper for the first time since it was released when I was a teenager and I couldn't even finish it. It was so bad. Then, Amazon lets me know that there are at least 5 sequels to it, with the last being only a couple years old. I can only imagine how terrible they are.
Diamondback
07-16-21, 10:13
Cruise also did the immersion thing in "The Last Samurai" in order to have passable sword skills and other things. I think he takes it seriously and I'd rather see Cruise trying to master the intricacies of the katana than listen to a bunch of Hollywood elites bloviate about how scary talented Meryl Streep is or discuss the brilliant of Woody Allen.
So I try and give credit where it's due, after all most of Hollywood never actually held a gun. Go watch "Taxi Driver" with the sound off and DeNiro flinches really bad on every shot in the gun range scene. Not exactly the hardcore former Marine that he was portraying. We've come a long way.
Top Gun saw him learn to fly and go buy a P-51. Dude may be a stubby little cult kook, but I'll give him credit for Doing The Homework.
Wind River definitely rekindled my desire for a lever 45-70 in stainless.
I kept a PPK/S for quite a while only because it was Bond’s pistol.
I wish I still had the USP 9c Jack Bauer convinced me to buy.
I tried watching Sniper for the first time since it was released when I was a teenager and I couldn't even finish it. It was so bad. Then, Amazon lets me know that there are at least 5 sequels to it, with the last being only a couple years old. I can only imagine how terrible they are.
I made it into Sniper 2. Berringer is someplace scrounging weapons and picks up a Moisin 91/30 and comments "German Mauser rifle...one of the most accurate rifles ever made" or something to that effect.
Without Han Solo, the Mauser M96/ Broom handle would be a distant memory for gun and non-gun enthusiasts.
Saving private Ryan and Band of Brothers for any WW2 related weapon both for shooting and collecting.
That crashed the surplus market....everything WW2 jumped up price wise after that movie....
Die Hard is the reason I had 6 MP5s at one time. That film was a HK commercial.
That and Terminator 2 with the shootout at the Cyberdyne lab...even showed an MP5K
Five_Point_Five_Six
07-17-21, 13:27
I wish I still had the USP 9c Jack Bauer convinced me to buy.
Me too. I traded a PD trade in Glock 23 for it straight up. I don't remember what I traded it or sold it off for, but I kinda miss USP 9c larping on my sofa while watching 24.
Jack used his USP for the majority of the series:
https://i.imgur.com/CFGTIE7l.jpg
I would say Quigley Down Under sold a few Sharps copies.
Without Han Solo, the Mauser M96/ Broom handle would be a distant memory for gun and non-gun enthusiasts.
Nonsense. If you collect Luger, eventually you discover the 96, especially the Red 9.
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