Harrison Ford: Witness

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Doug.38PR

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What kind of gun was Harrison Ford using in Witness? At first I though it was a Second Issue DS because of the thin barrel but then I was looking at it recently and it looked to me like somethign I have never seen: A Smith & Wesson Model 10 with a 2 inch barrel OLD STYLE. The barrel looked thinner and the hammer didn't have as much of a thumb crevass like the old style Military and Police. Looked like a PreWar gun. Look at the scene after he and Danny Glover shoot it out in the parking garage. He reaches down to pick up his laundry from the cleaners with his gun in hand and blood drips. Look at his gun.
My questions are these: Is it an old style MP 2 inch? Why would a young cop in the mid 1980s be carrying such an old gun?
 
A clever one that wanted a gun that goes bang everytime he pulls the trigger, or maybe it was his off duty or BUG. I still occasionally carry a 4 inch M 19 ,or 3 inch 66. Can always count on em if SHTF. Regards 18DAI.
 
haven't seen it in years, but I always thought it was a Colt
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It is definately a S&W because the underside of the barrel has the ejector rod holder that the ejector rod tip snaps into. But the barrel does look like that of an old style Detective Special.
 
In the mid-80's Fod was in his forties. If you really want to get into it then it's entirely plausiable that his character joined the Philladelphia PD in the sixties. In the scene where he and his Amish sweetheart are listening to Sam Cooke on his car radio he talks about being in school when the song was a hit.

Now it's probably changed, but I believe that at one time the Philadelphia PD would hire eighteen year olds. So it's the sixties, he's a young guy just out of high-school and he's been issued a 4" Model 10, but some of the old-timers tell him that he really should have another gun for BUG and off-duty.

Well he's a city kid and dosen't know guns, but cops are always selling their guns to each other. Some old cop has put in his twenty or thirty years and is retiring. He buys the old cop's snubbie which was manufactured in the Thirties. It was just a middle aged revolver at that time. Like many cops he isn't into guns and he's comfortable with what he knows so he keeps the old style M&P snubbie and when he is promoted to Detective he just keep carrying it. Dosen't even give it any consideration.

Now I have entirely too much time on my hands.:rolleyes:
 
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