Gun purchases based on Movies?

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Someone just brought up the movie S.W.A.T. recently and it's reminded me of how I've been wanting to shoot or even buy an AR. It's come to a point where this is actually influencing my career choices, as I'd have to move into free parts of America in order to get one!

All the gunplay in the entire Matrix trilogy is now making me want a Beretta! It's totally illogical for me, as the grips are too big for my hands and I'm already well set up with the CZ platform. Not to mention being broke because of all the ammo I've been buying lately.

Anyone else made gun purchases (almost solely) based on their portrayal in the media?
 
Keep wanting a beretta everytime i watch Resident evil and any chow yun fat flick and mp-5 and other stuff i can never own
 
Wild, speaking of Dirty Harry and the S&W Model 29, what about something similar with the new S&W .500 Magnum? In order to be politically correct, of course, we'd need a female lead... how about "Dirty Harriet"? :D
 
Actually Preach we should be even more correct and have the characvter named Dirty Har..of indeterminate sexuality ( has a real big gun, a tender side, and swings both ways)..

WildsickmindAlaska
 
Lee Marvin in The Professionals may or may not have created a desire to wear Colt 1911's and New Services at the same time...

And of course there's Versus, in which one character keeps getting guns taken away from him and always pulls another one out of the back waistband of his pants... I think a Beretta, 1911 longslide, Automag, then a Desert Eagle. I want those pants.
 
Not the movies, but Miami Vice made me get a Bren Ten. Not for the "coolness factor," more because the concept of that cartridge really appealed to me, the fact that Jeff Cooper was the design consultant, and because I thought the pistol a beautiful gun. 17 years later (and after a move from NY to Savannah) I got mine. 4 years since, I still believe that I was right in my reasoning.

..Joe

PS: Anybody else think that US Marshalls is the best Glock commercial ever made?
 
THe Wind and the Lion and The Wild Bunch were responsible for me purchasing one of the new Winchester 1895s (30-06), and a Winchester 1897 "Bush Gun". Numerous British WW 1 and WW 2 movies were responsible for me purchasing both a Lee - Enfield MK 111* and a No. 4. Inncidentally I still own and shoot all those models. They're great. :D
 
Not exactly, but...

When I first got my Texas CHL I decided to celebrate by getting a new handgun. Although I had several handguns, I wanted a good .380 so I began looking. (the only .380 I had at the time was a POS AMT) I decided that the high-cap Beretta 84 was for me. I looked and and looked. I was hot for the Beretta. The only one I could find was in pawnshop; it was a brightly polished nickel plated number, gold plated trigger, slide stop, and safety. It had some kind of exotic wood grips. And what the heck, I bought it for $400.00- they gave me $50.00 on the AMT, and I believe they got the worst end.

Took the new toy to the range, and suffered through a session of odd looks from other shooters. I couldn't believe myself that I had bought the thing.

Then, a week or so later, a friend of mine managed to pick up a couple of used but like NIB Glocks 23's cheap. He offered me one at $425.00 with 3 mags and a holster. I sold the Beretta to a girl at work who has a CHL. I got the Glock, I grew to like it, and I still have it.

So anyway, about a week after all this, there I am watching TV- "U.S. Marshalls" with Tommy Lee Jones. I laughed like a fool when said the famous line "Lose that nickel-plated sissy pistol and get you a Glock".
 
"ZULU" piqued my interest in the Martini-Henry, and "Quigley Down Under" did the same for the Sharps. Never felt like paying any REAL money for the beat up rusty antique Martinis I came across, and didn't feel like paying a couple of grand and waiting a couple of years for a Shiloh Sharps.

The other guns I've seen that I'd like are either imaginary, way too expensive, or require special licensing.
 
Every since I have seen Underworld I have been wanting to buy a Walter P22 and see if I can turn it into a HK like they do in the movie. :D


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Anyone who laughs at this thread better not own a Walther PPK.

I still want a Planet of the Apes Carbine.
 
I wanted a P22 (yeah yeah... i hear the whining: "It's cheaply made! Unreliable!" Well, it's the COOLEST looking 22lr pistol around!)


Too bad they're considered an EEEVIL assault pistol in california.

James
 
The Terminator made me get a phased plasma rifle. In Califparanoia though you can only get one with a 20 watt range rather than the full 40 watt range.
 
Not the S&W 29, but I did go for the Stainless 629. Every time I fire it I hear voices saying things like "Well do ya punk?". And of course, after having watched every episode of the greatest television program ever produced, the A-Team inspired me to buy a Mini-14. Funny though. After purchasing it, I found that I can actually hit something with it.
 
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