Has a movie ever made you want to buy a certain firearm?

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Gaerek

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I'd really like the Glock 7 that Bruce Willis mentions in Die Hard 2, but I can't seem to find any for sale. Must be an LEO only thing.

Other than that, I can't think of any movie that has "sold" me a gun. I don't buy guns based on a deal made between a movie studio and firearm manufacturer.
 
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Dr Big Bird PhD

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this will be coming out in airsoft form. once when i get my hands on it, ill be dropping in a .22LR in it.
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I've heard that a mil-spec MSR is completely legal for a citizen to buy, is this true? (No I don't have the money to even think about buying it, but I'm just curious).
 
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SPEMack618

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From my understanding of it, there is nothing about the gun in of and itself that is illegal, all it is a bolt gun with a bunch of doo-dad hangers attached to it.

Maybe in California though, seeing as how is has an adjustable stock and a detachable magazine. Not sure.

However, Remington Defense doesn't sell to civilians and they market said rifle, so whil not illegal, it's just not on the market.
 
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rickyjames

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probably the 2 movies that made me buy a particular gun was dirty harry......the 44 mag revolver and quiggly down under for my sharps rifle :) never a second thought about either. oh,.........a whole childhood of cowboy movies for my single action 6 guns and my winchesters and 12 ga double barrel coach gun. oh,.....and all the war movies for my m1 carbine and ar-15/m-4's and 1911 semi auto handguns. oh, and marvin the martin cartoon for my space ray gun.
 
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BlueTrain

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Yet another movie which actually prompted me to purchase a particular gun was "The Grey Fox," with Richard Farnsworth as real-life train robber Bill Miner. The gun was a Colt Bisley model, which the actual historical character used and which is in a museum somewhere in Canada, along with a Colt .32 automatic and a Luger. They were progressive train robbers, having given up robbing stagecoaches. I eventually had two Bisley models, both in .45, different barrel lengths, both fixed sights. They take a little getting used to. I also owned a Ruger Bisley, which approached perfection in a single action revolver.

Actor Harry Carey from the Bronx made many movies, including a lot of westerns. One that was not a western was Trader Horn, also based on a real life individual who was a trader in Africa, where the movie was also filmed. At some point I managed to find a copy of the book, about 80 years old, but not the movie itself. I'm not really sure if he used a double rifle in that movie or not but he did in another movie also set in Africa called Sundown. He was a white hunter in that movie. In still another movie, one of he later ones, he was a sheriff in a John Wayne Western. He makes a shot with a rifle and blows through the barrel after he makes the shot. Nice touch, especially for a law student from the Bronx.
 
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Drummer101

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MIB 3: J frame revolver
Wild Wild West: 1860 Army
Skyfall: sig p232 (seems a little better than the modern day ppk)
Band of Brothers: Colt 1911 (but the commander model)
 
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Texshooter

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Well, gotta say a Browning Hi Power.

"The Bodyguard", but really because Costner and myself share so many of the same qualities:D
 
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