Ever notice how styles in weaponry change in movies/TV?
When I was a kid, the bad guys, if they were eastern big-town American gangsters, all used Colt Police Positive revolvers, which they carried without holsters in an inside coat pocket. Simpering lounge lizard murderers favored Colt .32 pocket autos, and ladies of questionable virtue always produced a nickeled Colt .25 from their jeweled evening purse, at some juncture. The Western GG's of course carried the Winchester and the Model P.
Evil foreign bad guys sported Mausers, Lugers, and the occasional P-38. All Japanese officers carried Lugers, not Nambus. U.S. Good Guys naturally used Army guns...big frame Colt revolvers and 1911's. Detective types universally favored the Colt Dick Special.
Lately, though, styles in weaponry have changed. The favorite BG gun, by my calculation is the Desert Eagle, or some other exotic. Who remembers the Lahti wielded by the cadaverous assassin in the James Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'? And of course, most gangsters today are equipped with at least an Uzi, while hardly any of the GG's use revolvers. The sole revolver GG was Dirty Harry, but even he switched to the AutoMag in his last film of the series.The style for both GG and BG today runs to high-cap crunchentickers: Berettas, Glocks and CZ clones; Walther PPKs' are popular with women and spies. Besides the almost exclusive use of the Desert Eagle by BG kingpins, has anyone spotted any other definite trends? slabsides
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An armed man is a citizen; an unarmed man is a subject; a disarmed man is a slave.
When I was a kid, the bad guys, if they were eastern big-town American gangsters, all used Colt Police Positive revolvers, which they carried without holsters in an inside coat pocket. Simpering lounge lizard murderers favored Colt .32 pocket autos, and ladies of questionable virtue always produced a nickeled Colt .25 from their jeweled evening purse, at some juncture. The Western GG's of course carried the Winchester and the Model P.
Evil foreign bad guys sported Mausers, Lugers, and the occasional P-38. All Japanese officers carried Lugers, not Nambus. U.S. Good Guys naturally used Army guns...big frame Colt revolvers and 1911's. Detective types universally favored the Colt Dick Special.
Lately, though, styles in weaponry have changed. The favorite BG gun, by my calculation is the Desert Eagle, or some other exotic. Who remembers the Lahti wielded by the cadaverous assassin in the James Stewart/Alfred Hitchcock film 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'? And of course, most gangsters today are equipped with at least an Uzi, while hardly any of the GG's use revolvers. The sole revolver GG was Dirty Harry, but even he switched to the AutoMag in his last film of the series.The style for both GG and BG today runs to high-cap crunchentickers: Berettas, Glocks and CZ clones; Walther PPKs' are popular with women and spies. Besides the almost exclusive use of the Desert Eagle by BG kingpins, has anyone spotted any other definite trends? slabsides
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An armed man is a citizen; an unarmed man is a subject; a disarmed man is a slave.