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Posted: 8/16/2023 11:12:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/16/2023 11:36:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/16/2023 11:40:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Die Hard and Lethal Weapon sold a ton of Beretta 92s. Die Hard sold a ton of AUGs and MP5 clones also. Harley's Davidson and the Marlboro Man sold AUGs, Deagels and Casual revolvers. How can you forget every one wanting a PPK because of Bond. The Quick and the Dead saw a resurgence in single actions being sold. |
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Posted: 8/16/2023 11:54:09 PM EDT
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Quoted: When I was younger There was a movie called Max Payne, overall a shitty movie but a shootout scene in the bathroom had some amazing special effects making the gun look like some amazing destructive thing of dread. The Character used a shitty obscure gun from a shitty company called Taurus Judge. Overnight every one had to have one and use it for CC and self defense and we had people getting gold medal in mental gymnastics trying to legitimize and defend the use of this awful lump of metallic shit as anything but a meme gun. I was a bit younger back then and that movie kinda shone a light on the amount of dumb fuck gun owners we have here in the US. What other movie/scenes affected gun trends/culture? Side bar here, but the video games that this movie is loosely based on are phenomenal. 
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Posted: 8/17/2023 12:05:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I know right, this right here. And it's such a trash gun too, Walther should just let it die but I bet it makes them a ton of money. The gun just flat out sucks! It's a weak caliber but it's loud and recoils like a bigger gun. The sights are pure dog shit. If the hammer doesn't bite your hand the slide will, and your knuckle will probably bash on the trigger guard. What a piece of crap gun but it does look nice though. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Walther ppk - James Bond I know right, this right here. And it's such a trash gun too, Walther should just let it die but I bet it makes them a ton of money. The gun just flat out sucks! It's a weak caliber but it's loud and recoils like a bigger gun. The sights are pure dog shit. If the hammer doesn't bite your hand the slide will, and your knuckle will probably bash on the trigger guard. What a piece of crap gun but it does look nice though. Shut your whore mouth! Everyone knows it has a delivery like a brick through a plate glass window!!!!  James Bond gets his Walther PPK |
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Posted: 8/17/2023 12:48:13 AM EDT
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Ruger got a huge boost of P-89 & P-90 owners when Arnold used a stainless Ruger as his primary gun in "True Lies"
 
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:19:43 AM EDT
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My favorite movie gun is because I own it and was in a site favorite, Red Dawn
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:35:29 AM EDT
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Rambo (the 2008 movie) made me want a SIG 551.
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:42:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I can't wait to buy a "Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range." Just what ya see, pal. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:46:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not a movie but Walking Dead and Colt Pythons Did Colt being back the python because of the show? Gotta wonder. Crossbow sales went through the roof because of Darryl |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:49:57 AM EDT
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Not a movie but video game. Noticeable huge jump in old mausers and mannlicher serv with the release of Battlefield 1.
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:54:45 AM EDT
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The Bren Ten that Crockett carried
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:58:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's intentional due to the Mini-14 "cone of dispersion" by throwing wide patterns, the Mini-14 insured the A-Team keep the bad guys heads down, but didn't kill them.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Funnny part is the A-Team was always dumping magazines but nobody ever caught a bullet in the chest or face . My stainless ranch rifle from that period couldn't hit shit either. That's intentional due to the Mini-14 "cone of dispersion" by throwing wide patterns, the Mini-14 insured the A-Team keep the bad guys heads down, but didn't kill them. Kill? I watched every episode of that show. They never scored a single hit. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 9:59:37 AM EDT
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Rambo & Predator.
Not only guns, but knives too. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:00:39 AM EDT
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I swear that Enfields got harder to find after 1917 came out.
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:02:59 AM EDT
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Was I the only one that got a Stoner 63a after Quantum Leap?
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:03:32 AM EDT
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Aliens’ pulse rifle, hands down.
Honorable mention: Knight and Day. SIG P250. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:10:03 AM EDT
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Mark Wahlberg cast as Dirk Diggler playing the role of Brock Landers (Long John Holmes)in the fictional movie “Angels Live In my Town” in Boogie Nights really clinched it for me and blued N-frames.
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:14:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Die Hard and Lethal Weapon sold a ton of Beretta 92s. /thread |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:17:04 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ruger got a huge boost of P-89 & P-90 owners when Arnold used a stainless Ruger as his primary gun in "True Lies" https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/True-Lies-e1615494947697.jpg https://img1.hotstarext.com/image/upload/f_auto,t_web_hs_2_5x/sources/r1/cms/prod/7452/1017452-h-99a58b606e28  ETA, damn it, now I need to build a guitar gun case with a fake guitar. It's probably pretty easy now. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:18:33 AM EDT
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I always wanted a 551 and Ronin just made my want even more.
 It took me many years but I finally got one.  |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:24:46 AM EDT
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I saw Cross of Iron when I was young and wanted what ever gun James Colburn had. I found out it was a Ppsh 41 years later and finally got my transferable years after that.
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:30:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You can usually tell who is 007 in a gunfight scene without even looking at the actors face because he's the one with the tiniest gun. Everyone else has Berettas, Glocks or something much more practical. In the later movies (probably starting with Brosnan) Bond carries a P-5 and not a PPK. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:31:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Die Hard and Lethal Weapon sold a ton of Beretta 92s. 
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:31:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Was Dirty Harry the original? No. Cowboy westerns in the 50s and spaghetti westerns in the 60s drove SAA sales |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:33:52 AM EDT
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Die Hard 2 - Glock 7
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:34:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Die Hard and Lethal Weapon sold a ton of Beretta 92s. Yup. It even affected the criminal world here. After Lethal Weapon came out the price of a Beretta 92 quadrupled on the Swedish black market. Every criminal wanted one. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:34:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wind River made the marlin 45-70 SBL unobtainable for a while, then the whole sale to Ruger extended that. Good thing is, it's a better gun now. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:46:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In the later movies (probably starting with Brosnan) Bond carries a P-5 and not a PPK. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You can usually tell who is 007 in a gunfight scene without even looking at the actors face because he's the one with the tiniest gun. Everyone else has Berettas, Glocks or something much more practical. In the later movies (probably starting with Brosnan) Bond carries a P-5 and not a PPK. Tomorrow Never Dies, in the Chinese safe house. "Is that the new Walther? I should ask Q for that." Except I thought it was a P99. Which doesn't disprove the P5 showing up somewhere else. I just don't remember seeing one. |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:55:38 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/18/2023 10:57:33 AM EDT
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Not a move, but news clips. Unsure how many of you are old enough to remember two news clips from early 80s. They showed guns not normally seen in America at the time. The Iranian Embassy rescue by SAS using MP5s, and the attempted assination of Ronaldus Magnus by that mental health patient who should have not been walking free where the Secret Service guy suddenly produced a full size UZI from under his sport coat. Both of those news clips made pistol caliber subguns popular again. And that was pre May86, so they were still legal to make at the time. i had one teacher that picked up an UZI because if it was good enough to protect the president, it was something he wanted to get.
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Posted: 8/18/2023 11:01:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dirty Harry series sold a shit-ton of S&W 44 Mag model 29s, as well as some auto - Wildey? Desert Eagle? Similar with Death Wish. 
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Posted: 8/18/2023 11:04:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://i.imgflip.com/3n4unh.gif ETA, damn it, now I need to build a guitar gun case with a fake guitar. It's probably pretty easy now. You need friends @Happy_Hour_Hero  Desperado - "Let's play" Use a better magnet to keep the guitar “lid” closed:  Desperado - Guitar Case Full of Guns |
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Posted: 8/18/2023 11:17:19 AM EDT
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Dirty Harry
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Posted: 8/18/2023 5:08:12 PM EDT
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It was “Replacement Killers” that sold me on the H&K USP9
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Posted: 8/18/2023 6:52:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I know someone who was around at the time and said they almost couldn't give away Model 29s when they first came out - .44 Magnum is just too spicy a cartridge to be useful to anyone except somebody headed out into the woods in bear country. But then Dirty Harry hit theaters, and suddenly there was a six-month waiting list to get one. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Dirty harry and the 44 mag I know someone who was around at the time and said they almost couldn't give away Model 29s when they first came out - .44 Magnum is just too spicy a cartridge to be useful to anyone except somebody headed out into the woods in bear country. But then Dirty Harry hit theaters, and suddenly there was a six-month waiting list to get one. |
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Posted: 8/23/2023 10:19:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Was I the only one that got a Stoner 63a after Quantum Leap? https://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2020-03/1584800591_quantum-leap.jpg http://weaponblueprints.com/mongo/pictures/Stoner-commando-left-side.jpg Love that episode and gun, cant afford one yet |
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Posted: 8/23/2023 10:38:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hmm anybody feel like Commando helped sell any M202 Flash launchers? That's like saying Predator helped sell more miniguns. Actually, I want a minigun. 
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Posted: 8/23/2023 10:50:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shooter resulted in at least one Remington 700 Varmint sale Pretty sure the Remingtons in Shooter were 700 PSS models |
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Posted: 8/23/2023 11:21:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I thought that the first Jurassic Park movie with Chris Pratt in it also got a ton of those sold. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Wind River made the marlin 45-70 SBL unobtainable for a while, then the whole sale to Ruger extended that. Good thing is, it's a better gun now. Both movies drove interest up but the reality is that they were hard to get during their entire production run. |
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Posted: 8/23/2023 11:28:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No. That legislation predates LW. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Lethal weapon was responsible for the armour piercing pistol ammunition "cop killer bullets" legislation. No. That legislation predates LW. KTW was what I was told started the whole cop killer thing. Bit before my time. |
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Posted: 8/23/2023 11:32:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/23/2023 11:36:04 PM EDT
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Quoted: When I was younger There was a movie called Max Payne, overall a shitty movie but a shootout scene in the bathroom had some amazing special effects making the gun look like some amazing destructive thing of dread. The Character used a shitty obscure gun from a shitty company called Taurus Judge. Overnight every one had to have one and use it for CC and self defense and we had people getting gold medal in mental gymnastics trying to legitimize and defend the use of this awful lump of metallic shit as anything but a meme gun. I was a bit younger back then and that movie kinda shone a light on the amount of dumb fuck gun owners we have here in the US. What other movie/scenes affected gun trends/culture? How old are you? I ask because my memory is bit different regarding the Judge. It had been out for quite a while when that crappy movie came out and was anything but obscure. |
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Posted: 8/23/2023 11:51:24 PM EDT
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Saving Private Ryan drove the increased cost of transferable Thompsons.
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Posted: 8/23/2023 11:57:03 PM EDT
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 I am wanting to get another Makarov after watching Kleo |
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Posted: 8/28/2023 9:39:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryDamn those are nice ?? |
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Posted: 8/28/2023 11:36:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn those are nice ?? Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn those are nice ?? Yes, yes they sre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Barbeau |
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