Baby Browning .25 Questions

[Texas Star]

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This Wikipedia article says that the thumb safety on the Baby Browning .25 is pushed inwards to release it I haven't handled one in years, but thought it required being pushed down, as with similar Colt safety levers. Has anyone here got one? What is the truth here?

Also, the article says that the gun was used in the James Bond movie, Octopussy. I recall Swedish actress Maud Adams's character with the Beretta 950 .25 in that film, but don't recollect a Baby Browning. Who had it?

BTW, the Beretta 950 is the only .25 that I recall being seen much in movies or on TV. Anyone recall the one in the opening titles of the series, Silk Stalkings? A couple have also been in the Bond flicks.

Come to think of it, I don't remember any .25's but the Beretta 418 (James Bond) and the MAB used by Modesty Blaise being in books.

Thanks,

T-Star
P.S. Author Ian Fleming gave James Bond a Beretta .25, but himself carried a Baby Browning while on Naval Intelligence duties during WW II. A female OSS agent operating in Spain stated in her memoirs that she used her Beretta .25 to kill a gypsy coming at her with a knife.

 

[therevjay]

Baby Browning safety. You are right. Wikipedia is wrong. (not the first time)

 

[sjmjax]

I've seen the Beretta 950 used frequently in the old "Avengers" TV series. Always by the bad guys and often with a silencer attached!

A Colt or Browning .25 is used by Peter Lorre in "Maltese Falcon" and Eva Marie Saint in "North by Northwest".

I'm sure there are others but those stand out for me.

 

[Stevie]

The movie..'Two Days In The Valley'..has a .25 auto in it.

 

[Texas Star]

The movie..'Two Days In The Valley'..has a .25 auto in it.

I saw that when it was in theaters, but it also had the newly-arrived Charlize Theron in it, wearing a cute little lace teddy. She still had a little of her Afrikaans accent.

I was so taken with her that I''ve clean forgotten which guns the buffoons had. Did Charlize have the .25? What sort was it?

Tot seins,

T-Star
(Dang, that girl has me thinking in Afrikaans..., such as I know of the language.)

Oh: this is a sad, very real note: her mother had to shoot her troubled father, who was trying to kill her and the young Charlize. It was ruled a justifiable homicide. I don't know which handgun she used. Very tragic, but South African laws then allowed defensive shootings. Not sure what the present (black) govt. may do in such cases. I think self-defense is still okay, within reasonable circumstances. Just as well, for crime there has increased enormously.

 

[USAF385]

Baby Browning safety. You are right. Wikipedia is wrong. (not the first time)

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So, you know you're getting the best possible information."

 

[Texas Star]

"Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So, you know you're getting the best possible information."

You have a point, but their wild animal and snake features are usually pretty good. And they have photos, to which you can refer others. And their celebrity entries are normally accurate, as are their military aircraft entries.

I think this is the first time that I've caught them "out" on a gun, but I haven't looked up many there.