Funny how Bond carried those German Walther's for so long and nobody complained
Because the 7.65mm Walther "hits like a brick through a plate glass window"....
Ian Fleming might have known what looked cool, and how to write a great sounding line, but he basically didn't know squat about guns. The Bond movies, I put in two broad categories, the early ones, where the at least tried to stay somewhat close to the Bond that Fleming created, (which seemed to go away with the Rodger Moore movies...) and the later ones, where you just have an over the top action hero called James Bond, who is more or less British...
Country of origin matters a great deal to me, when I am buying historical handguns. New Production? I prefer to buy American, if I can find the features I want. Also the mild patriotic desire for my money to benefit Americans first, if possible. And the fact that, if I do have issues, it get handled in the US, under US laws.
I do have my unreasonable personal standards though. I won't buy a French gun because..well... its
French!
I do buy Nazi marked guns. Rather fond of them, in fact. Pieces of a history that should NEVER be forgotten!! (Plus, no evil Nazis are gonna be able to use them while I got 'em!!
)
I have one South American gun, a Systema Colt, and its on a par with a commercial Colt Govt model of the era.
I have Russian, US, German, British, Japanese, Belgian and Spanish guns, and guns from I'm not sure where.
What the gun IS matters more than the country of origin, BUT, the country of origin plays a part in what the gun
is!