Has pop culture ever made you want a gun you never wanted before?
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PT92
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Come now! Pull an 'Uncle Sam' and simply charge that bad-boy to your CC--it's the 'American Way'
. Gotta Love the 'Country Club' AKA Washington...
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rcmodel
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Nope!
Pop culture made me buy a sky blue bell bottom leisure suit once.
I learned my lesson on pop culture influncing my buying decisions right then and there!
rc
Pop culture made me buy a sky blue bell bottom leisure suit once.
I learned my lesson on pop culture influncing my buying decisions right then and there!
rc
Texan Scott
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Saw a picture of Demi Moore holding a chromed Desert Eagle, and thought it was REALLY tacky, and just goes to show that Hollywood is devoid of taste. It looks nice, but it's expensive, finnicky, useless, and generally a pain in the butt. Who would want that? Then it hit me: Ashton Kutcher, apparently...
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LOL! This stuff happens though--We all remember how the "Miami Vice" craze resulted in a huge pastel colored clothing, no socks 'fashion-wave' (or revolution) from the East to West Coast and everywhere in between. I kid you not, I went to a NASCAR Race in Talladega Alabama in 86 (celebrating my 21th Birthday--Ouch!) and attended a few parties that week in Dega and witnessed firsthand good old southern boys trying to pull off the so called 'Sonny Crockett' look if you will
. It remains to this day indelibly imprinted in my memory (disturbing at that...).So I have to say that the OP has extreme validity IMO in that people are quite vulnerable to the powers of 'pop-culture' persuasion...
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JLDickmon
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Tell some, well... ALL, of my longbow shooter friends that it isn't a gun. You might be shy a couple teeth when you get back up off the floor...
JLDickmon
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along with not shaving for three days..
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The Rocketeer made me want a Gee Bee.
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+1 And Jennifer Connelly.
JFrame
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Fishslayer
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Hmmm... I got The Man From UNCLE gun when I was a kid, but other than that... "popular culture" actually makes me tend to shy away. Except for a SIG SP2022 I don't own any boxy black "me too" tacticool pistols and there's a pretty long list of rifles I'll own before getting an AR type.
So... I guess the answer is "no."
Wouldn't mind a phased plasma rifle in 40 watt range tho...
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Yep the Rocketeer made me want a LOT of things being somewhere around 12 years old when it hit theaters, those 1911s looked tiny in Luther's hands!
Same for me with the Schofields, I wanted 'em before 3:10 to Yuma, and that movie did NOT help that itch go away! Have you seen "Hell Ride"? there is at least one Schofield in that movie that gets a good amount of screen-time.
LOL!!!
When I was younger and "The Shadow" became a movie, it made me want two 6" or > 1911s, now I find out they were actually customized LAR Grizzlies, due to blank-gun technology at the time. "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot" also had a long-barreled 1911 that looked pretty cool, I still want one! -someday-
Death Wish 3 and Natural Born Killers made me want a Wildey, which I actually ended up buying a few years ago. It was a very fun gun, but I sold it to buy a S&W 629 that I shoot much more often, plus extra $$ on top. I do miss the Wildey though
Robocop made me want that crazy Beretta 93, still haven't obtained it though -LOL-
I was into shooting for many years before becoming an owner/collector. I spent much time deciding what my first gun would be, and it ended up being a '51 Navy in .44 cal thanks to Mr. Eastwood, but also because my grandfather has an original 1860 in .44 cal.
Just about every western ever featuring a single-action army of some sort or another made me want two of 'em! Especially Kevin Costner's in 'Silverado' and The Kid's (Leo D) in "The Quick and the Dead." Now I have two nickel SAAs and I just LOVE shootin 'em
Any movie that took place in the roaring 20s, "Last Man Standing" comes to mind, made me want a Winchester model 12, now I have one of those too
Pale Rider made me want at least one 1858 Remmy, I've owned a few since and I love 'em.
When I was a kid growing up, any time I saw a 1911 in a movie I just thought wow what a gorgeous gun, now I have two
One thing I must say, is if a movie or 'pop culture' made me interested in a firearm, I only bought it if I liked the way it felt and shot,
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I was always a fan of the 1960s TV series "COMBAT!" My favorite character was Sergeant Saunders with his model 1928 Thompson.
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Great taste indeed--I used to watch that show with my parents and last year bought Seasons 1-3 on DVD. I loved the Sergeant's Thompson but I was more enamored with Kirby's BAR!
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Miami Vice Bren Ten
mljdeckard was thinking out loud:
This is probably what introduced me to 10mm, and I ended up buying one of each I could get my hands on except for a Bren Ten.
I think Crockett was actually using a .45ACP Bren, prolly cause blanks were way more plentiful. Hilarious to watch the old episodes when Crockett is firing his gun as more often than not it seems to jam on the first shot, after which he simulates a firing motion with the gun out of battery.
mljdeckard was thinking out loud:
This is probably what introduced me to 10mm, and I ended up buying one of each I could get my hands on except for a Bren Ten.
I think Crockett was actually using a .45ACP Bren, prolly cause blanks were way more plentiful. Hilarious to watch the old episodes when Crockett is firing his gun as more often than not it seems to jam on the first shot, after which he simulates a firing motion with the gun out of battery.
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It's utterly amazing how many different firearms were used in the series "Miami Vice." Granted I was quite young but I still watch a rerun here or there (available on Netflix which surprised me), but the show's producer Michael Mann was a big-time firearms afficionado and he arduously strived to make the show as realistic as possible for a TV Series. Have a look at the following link for a list of the plethora of weaponry used in the 'pastel-suits-no-socks' Sonny Crockett era:
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Miami_Vice_-_Season_1
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DammitBoy
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Yes, too many to mention - but the last one I bought was the Safari Arms Matchmaster featured in 'Wanted'...
After watching Brubaker with Robert Redford I suddenly got the hankerin' for a 1897 Winchester of some sort. Also seeing a few of Eastwood's and Van Cleef's lower budget westerns I had grown fond of the C&B revolvers that were potrayed in those films and eventually landed a Pietta 1858 Remmie clone.
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Is there any other reason anyone has ever purchased a Desert Eagle? Just kidding. The answer for me is yes. I couldn't even begin to list how many guns that I've seen in a movie or TV, looked up to find out what it was, researched and decided I wanted one.
I'm sure there are plenty of influences but I remember Blood Work with Clint Eastwood and his revolver, very nice but I don't believe it's a massed produced item (according to IMFDB that is).
Also History's Hatfields & McCoys re-energized my black powder enjoyment
Also History's Hatfields & McCoys re-energized my black powder enjoyment
chicharrones
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Before the internet and before I got gun magazine subscriptions, TV or movies was the only way I got firearms exposure on a broad scale. Most people I knew back then only had two or three guns each. Which were typically a .30-06 bolt rifle, a 12 gauge pump shotgun, and a revolver (usually double action).
Swichblade
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I'll confess, watching "Shooter" led to me wanting a scoped rifle.
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My dad for sure decided to get a cap and ball after watching that.Also History's Hatfields & McCoys re-energized my black powder enjoyment
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