My grandpa had a run in with a 1903, the bullet hit right between his legs and went through the bed.
He was shipping out with the Sea Bees (color blind), and had just married grandma. Her dad had given her the 1903 to protect herself down in California as she came back from her honeymoon and seeing grandpa off to war.
As she was showing it to him... Well lets just say Grandma was not gun safe.
They never mentioned the new hole in the bed to the hotel.
That gun was carried by my great grandpa, briefly by my grandma, for decades by my grandpa (after he took it from grandma for obvious reasons, and later by my dad. Until I gave him an upgrade in the form of one of those little pocket sig autos in 9mm. He saw the wisdom in a much better carry cartridge, and I was pleased that the storied 1903 could be safely en-safed until such a time as it might come to me.
Regarding my Film Noir guns. I've found a few over the years;
Roscoe, the triple lock.
The Greek, an M&P target.
A .44 Model 3 DA belly gun, factory upgraded in the 1940s.
My $80 Miami pawnshop murdergun.
A colt police positive that was chopped and re-shaped to fit a pocket positive frame, and re-barreled with a detective special barrel.
Yes, someone made themselves a Colt Terrier. Very nicely, and with a lot of effort.
I have other sort of normal guns that are certainly Film Noir guns too. But these are the guns that I feel like would be actually another
character in a film. Not merely a gun to be used, but a companion for a hard boiled detective. Or a dastardly villain in the hands of a murderous dame.
