Had Hollywood effected your guns?

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I have seen many topics discussed here but not this one.

Dirty Harry did a lot for the sale of the 44 mag.

There are websites that tell what guns were used in which movies.

Companies sell holsters like were used in Miami Vice and even name them as such.

Watch people shooting at ranges trying to imitate Steven Segall. (Segall even is teaching cops about shooting and riding with them on patrols)

Has Hollywood influenced what you buy, the way you shoot or the brand gun you purchase?

I admit to owning a Miami Vice shoulder holster but that was not due to the show but rather the one that fit my needs.

With the expectation of being slammed, I am going to say that gangbangers changed the way police departments bought weapons by their wide spread use of the 9mm due to high capacity mags.

What does influence your buying or shooting decisions?
 
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Back when I was a kid in the latter '70's (before cable) the local TV station was running late night Humphrey Bogart movies every Saturday night. There were several movies in which he or others carried Colt Pocket Pistols and I always thought they were so cool. I finally bought one a few years ago (now I own four of them).

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Well, you brought another incident to mind. I watched a movie named Pete Kelly's Blues that starred Jack Webb back in the 50's. He had a scene where he pulled a 1911 from a box of what I think was rice in a kitchen. Once he racked the slide, I thought I got to get one of those when I grow up. It was during the Army when I first carried one but now I own several of them, one of which is blued, the rest are stainless. But that one scene influenced my desire to own one and has remained with me ever since the mid 50's when I was just about to become a teenager.
 
I suspect we all have. I own a SAA clone and a couple of lever actions. Thank you Lone Ranger, Roy, Duke, and a million Saturday matinees. I also have a couple of PP's and PPK's. When I was in HS, I loved the James Bond books and movies. I am not sure who to blame for the 1911's and BHP's. I also have a Garand and a carbine. Must have been that Duke guy again and Audie Murphy. I would have probably got the M-29's without Dirty Harry, but he helped.
 
Mel Gibson and his Beretta 92F in Lethal Weapon. First handgun I ever owned. I still have it, over 20 years later. Also, Sonny Crockett and his shoulder holster. I got a Miami Classic shoulder holster for the 92F. Go figure.
 
I have to say that hollywood hasn't really had much of an influence on the type of guns I am interested in. I feel that whatever the soldier in the field is carrying (God bless them) is good to go. LE also.

HOWEVER. The laser designator on the semiauto (.45?) that the terminator used to ace sarah conner was, and I think we can all agree on this and for lack of a better word, badass.
 
Have to admit... "I Spy" and Robert Kulp's 1911 made me want a Colt auto. Always liked when he loaded it and then hit the slide release...Chunk!

When I was a kid I went with my dad and saw "Them" a Sci-Fi about giant ants in the Desert of New Mexico. There was a State Trooper played by James Whitmore who when attacked by the giant ants...ran to the back of his patrol car, opened the trunk and pulled out a Tommy gun! Ran back to the ant and whanged him with ball ammo until dead!I absolutely LOVED that scene.

Apparently it did affect me as years later I did own a GI M1 Thompson, and somehow ended up as a career MT Highway Patrol Trooper. LOL!

FN in MT
 
Jeremiah Johnson made me want a Hawken rifle. Unfortunately it was lost in a flood many years ago. After 20 years I have a hankering to get another.
 
Only one, when I was a kid I loved to watch Gunsmoke and Marshall Dillon was my hero. When I retired I bought myself two new Colt SAA's, in .45 Colt, one in 4 5/8" and one in 7 1/2". The seven and a halfer was in honor of ole Marshall Dillon.
 
No slam from me on the wonder nines. That's pretty much what happened. I was around to see it. Even though most of them couldn't hit what they were aiming at, the fact that they could go bang more times than us made duty revolvers mostly obsolete. We went from revolvers to nines and from nines to 40's and 45's. The last few gang related killings we've had around here involved something larger than nines An SKS was used in one.
 
I don't care how many Beretta 92FS's I see, The darn things just don't fit my hand. It is, however, nice to see that "Axel Foley" and "Dr. Henry Jones Jr. (Indiana)" share my appreciation for Browning Hi Powers.
 
Smith357 said:
Jeremiah Johnson made me want a Hawken rifle. Unfortunately it was lost in a flood many years ago. After 20 years I have a hankering to get another.
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What is stopping you? I have spoken with many on their death bed and each of them expressed not getting what they wanted in life. A doctor that could afford anything he wanted told me that the one thing he wanted in life was a Harley Davidson motorcycle and all he could think of in his last days was why he never got that motorcycle.

How many people have you known that did without during a lifetime of hard work just to die and leave it to those that spent it for what they wanted?

I do not have much longer to live and fortunately know it. All my life I have loved collecting firearms. Once I am gone, my heirs can do as they want with the guns but while I am here, I plan on buying, enjoying and collecting more guns.
 
charlie sherrill said:
Even though most of them couldn't hit what they were aiming at, the fact that they could go bang more times than us made duty revolvers mostly obsolete. We went from revolvers to nines and from nines to 40's and 45's. The last few gang related killings we've had around here involved something larger than nines An SKS was used in one.
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The inability to hit what a person aims at is the reason they need large capacity mags. Around here we noticed that when they did hit a target, even if it was not the one they were trying for, the person generally survived.

There are those here that swear by the 9mm but were too young to have witnessed the change to the 9mm or the reasoning behind it.

We are also experiencing more AK or SKS shootings. The recent LEO deaths in West Memphis shows it is a national trend. More patrol cars are being equipt with the better quality weapons. But any weapon is only good if you can get to it.
 
I bought my first 645 back in 1988 because of Miami Vice. Really like the gun. Ended up having to sell it but was able to replace it with the help of a friend. He sold me his old duty gun for a good price. Really like the heavy feel of it and it fits my hand. Now I just got to get a ******* rig for it. Of course no way I can pull off those clothes he wore.
 
Yeah, Eastwoods movies helped fuel my passion for owning a S&W model 29. When "Dirty Harry" first came out I was just a young kid. I remember the ads on TV promoting it, but I was just to young to go and see it.
In later years the sequel "Magnum Force" came out. I was 13. I was too young to get into the theatre to see that one too. See, I spent most of my childhood living on Marine corps air stations....mostly Cherry Point, N.C........and the base theatre not only got the movies late.....but were VERY strict about kids getting into "R" rated movies. Mom & dad would'nt take me to see them either. (Well....Dad would but Mom put the brakes on it!) So....it was'nt until the films were re-released in later years that I finally saw them and then became my desire to own a genuine S&W model 29.

I can't even imagine how many model 29's sold from 1971 to present day because of "Dirty Harry". The numbers must be huge.

Ironic, is it not?
That Hollywood filmmakers.....mostly anti-gun on principle...are the greatest firearms salesman of all time!
 
rdcl said:
Ironic, is it not?
That Hollywood filmmakers.....mostly anti-gun on principle...are the greatest firearms salesman of all time!
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I believe politicians are also fine firearms salemen. Strange how when politicians set out to ban guns they only seem to increase sales figures.

Back to topic....
 
Smith357 said:
I believe politicians are also fine firearms salemen. Strange how when politicians set out to ban guns they only seem to increase sales figures.

Back to topic....
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Not only that but the politicians have driven the price of guns up. Clinton increased the value of my collection by a lot.
 
I've always wanted a 629 customized like the one Gary Oldman carried in "The Professonal".
 
"Quigley Down Under" I am sure helped put Shiloh on the map . I know my son has just ordered his 7th one and "blames" Tom Selleck for starting him on Sharps. For myself "The Rough Riders" caused me to get a couple of 1895 Win. carbines, {also the fact that they were favorite arms of the old Texas Rangers helped too}. The movies and tv I am sure increase the desire to own any number of firearms.
 
I really dont think hollywood influanced anything I ever bought nor has any star spouting off their political views got a vote from me because they like it.
 
Hollywood sells guns...and sadly, lots of dogs that wind up abandoned. Our pounds of late are loaded with "Beverly Hills" Chihuahuas from people who ran out to buy one, then came to realize it didn't act like the star of the movie they took their kids to...so these morons dump the dog first time it wets the throw rug...at least when some first time gun buyer picks a model 29 as his first gun because he thinks he's Dirty Harry, one of us is waiting in line to buy it at a discount after he shoots it....:)
 
Joe Kent said:
"Quigley Down Under" I am sure helped put Shiloh on the map . I know my son has just ordered his 7th one and "blames" Tom Selleck for starting him on Sharps. For myself "The Rough Riders" caused me to get a couple of 1895 Win. carbines, {also the fact that they were favorite arms of the old Texas Rangers helped too}. The movies and tv I am sure increase the desire to own any number of firearms.
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Same here on the Quigley Sharps. Of these three Shiloh's there's my "Little Quigley" in the middle. And just a while ago I was pricing new 95 Winchester SRC's. I want a new 30-06. You got good taste!
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