Got to have me a movie gun

Many don't realize that they own movie guns. The Star Model B and B Super was a frequent stand-in for the 1911 in a multitude of movies. Other, less well known, Star models appear in numerous movies. I suspect that it because they were cheap to acquire and they look different. The director wants it obvious which is the good guy's gun versus the bad guy's shooter.

I have read it in several places that the STAR A/B can be made to work with blank ammo very easily. The Colt 1911/A1 not as easily.

True or not, I don't know. Maybe an Urban Myth like so many other Gun Rag & IntroNet trueisms.
 
I have read it in several places that the STAR A/B can be made to work with blank ammo very easily. The Colt 1911/A1 not as easily.

True or not, I don't know. Maybe an Urban Myth like so many other Gun Rag & IntroNet trueisms.

I have also heard as much.

Edit: In Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega uses an Auto Ordnance 1911 while his partner Jules uses a Star ModelB. Not sure why the choice was made in this case.
 
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Was at a LGS yesterday just browsing, nice place and the owner does take care of me from time to time..anyway, a guy comes in that looks to be in his mid 30’s looking to buy his first handgun. I’m sitting there on a stool listening to this guy ask the owner if he has a gun like the “one Tom Cruise used in the movie Collateral”... When he told him he believed that was a HK .45 but he didn't have one in stock but had a number of nice 45’s the guy said “how about the one like Clint Eastwood carried in Dirty Harry”.

He shows him a model 29-2 that was a bit ragged at $1,200. The guy said that's way to big, Clint must have huge hands.

The owner gave me a look as if asking for help! The guy looked around for a bit and said he'd do some more research and come back.

When the guy left he looked at me and we started cracking up! :D

Now that's the way you pick a handgun! :)


I think so too. In case nobody posted the list from Collateral.

1Handguns
1.1Heckler & Koch USP45
1.1.1Special
1.2Ruger Mk II
1.3Smith & Wesson 3913
1.4Smith & Wesson 5906
1.5SIG-Sauer P232
1.6Sphinx AT 2000
1.7Glock 22
1.8Glock 17L
1.9Jericho 941
1.10Colt M1911A1
1.11Ruger KP89
1.12Beretta 92FS
1.13SIG-Sauer P226
2Machine Pistols and Submachine Guns
2.1Steyr SPP
2.2Colt RO635 9mm SMG
3Rifles
3.1Heckler & Koch G36C
4Shotguns
4.1Over and Under Shotgun


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The hard part is that in addition to the gun and ammo, you have to carry the batteries to make it run!

XM214 Microgun man-portable weapon system, known as the GE Six-Pak, wieghs 85 pounds with the internal battery and 1000 rounds of ammo in 2 500 round cassettes, which would last almost 15 seconds per cassette with the motor turned all the way down, so it only runs at 400rpm. It can be set to burst fire. If you had more 500 round ammo cassettes the battery only last for about 3000 rounds.

You had better get your problem solved in a hurry
 
My TV guns consist of the S&W 29, the 45 S&W that Sonny Crockett used. A Colt Python like Hutches and some High Powers like they used in the movie the Goonies. I couldn’t resist the Son of Sam Charter Arms 44 spl when I found one.
 
I’ll take a 1895 Gatling Gun like this one up at NRA Whittington.
As the story board says, it fired in support of the Rough Riders.
And of course they are in the Movie.
How many barrels?
 

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After I purchased my 5906, I started seeing them everywhere on TV and movies. They had always been there, I just hadn't noticed them.
 

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Well...guilty as charged. At 60 I don't have too many coherent memories of the early 70's. I do recall Dirty Harry coming out and not being allowed to see if until it showed on TV. Until then my brother and I were limited to relying on my dads gun magazines to get our fix. We finally convinced him to look for one. I'm pretty sure that movie got me stuck on S&W revolvers.
 
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