Media That Influenced You To Buy A Gun?

[NMGonzo]

sp101

bad lieutenant

 

[Murcielago]

Walther PPK - still a sexy gun, though I sold it over a year ago.

Bond. James Bond.

 

[glock36]

I was living in Fresno California when the Luby's massacre down in Texas happened, with all the press the Glock was getting I figured it was only a matter of time before the talking heads of California outlawed them so I went out and bought my first of many Glocks and never looked back.

 

[kayak-man]

I must admit that the episode on "Deadliest Warrior" featuring the Spetsnatz turned me onto the Makarov PM. Right now I'm wanting a Saiga 12.

Same here. I'm thinking of getting the Makarov for my CCW.

I remember watching JAWS for the first time, and thinking "I want that gun!" I'm probably going to spend my next paycheck on a M1 Garand

 

[ny32182]

I bought a S&W 1006 because of "Training Day".

 

[Prorock]

Hasn't happened yet but the first .45 I purchase will be a Glock 21. Justified

 

[MikeNice]

I must admit that the episode on "Deadliest Warrior" featuring the Spetsnatz turned me onto the Makarov PM. Right now I'm wanting a Saiga 12.

That show is the main reason I want a Saiga 12ga.

I will also admit that anytime I read a Mike Hammer novel I want to go out and buy a Model 1911 in .45. Mickey Spillane makes that gun sound like the right hand of God.

 

[karlkcfi]

Smith Model 29 44magnum, thank you Dirty Harry....

Taurus 92, thank you Spencer for Hire(close as I could afford)

Browning Hipower 9mm, thank you The Bodyguard

 

[Black Knight]

Back in the 1970's there was a cop show "Starski & Hutch". David Soul played Ken Hutchinson (Hutch). Hutch carried three guns during the series, a snub nosed 38 (pilot episode), a 4" Colt Python (episodes 2-7), and a 6" Colt Python(the rest of the series). The 6" Colt Python is the one everybody remembers. When I got my first job that required me to have a gun (Armed Security Officer) guess what I got. That's right a 6" Colt Python that I still have along with its original holster (a Bianchi model 5BH).

A little trivia: How can you tell the difference between the 4" and 6" Pythons without looking at the barrels?



Answer: The 4" barrel Python had the Colt factory wooden grips (stocks), the 6" Python had Pachmayer Presentation grips.

 

[straybullet]

I now want a Ruger Redhawk Alaskian .454, saw it in the movie "Faster" and thought it just looked plain mean. And the movie "Max Payne" for my Taurus Judge....blowing bathroom stall doors open just kinda stuck with me... , and I do have to say that "True Grit" while not influencing me to buy yet another wheel gun sure made me hit the range with a couple of mine for a few weeks straight.

 

[Nushif]

Spaghetti Westerns....

They made me buy and love a lever action.

 

[Dimis]

11 o clock news...
made me buy a 12 gauge and a 1911

 

[woad_yurt]

This medium we're using right here, the internet forum, influenced me the most by far. I never bought anything because of a book, movie, TV show, etc.

 

[kiskicowboy]

Still have my S&W 645, and Galco Miami Classic shoulder holster...never guess I was (and still am) a big fan of Miami Vice. Now if only I could get my hands on a Ferrari Daytona...

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

Like the title says, have you ever wanted (and actually bought) a gun because of a movie, TV show, book, video game, etc.?

No, but sometimes after the purchase I will point to a gun and say, "Look, this is/was carried by ______ and/or _______."

 

[Carl N. Brown]

I got a Mattel Thunder Burp because Peter Graves used a 1928 Thompson fighting nuclear mutant grasshoppers in "The Beginning of the End".

I now own a AutoOrdnance TM1 carbine largely because Tom Hanks carried an M1 Thompson in "Saving Private Ryan" (OK, that was my excuse). And a Mosin-Nagant blamed on "Enemy at the Gates".

 

[Cal-gun Fan]

Russian technology astounds me. So much of their focus, at least up until the end of the cold war, was put on weapons. They were able to make top of the line weapons, tanks, jets, but could not make a working refrigerator, or give every citizen a bed.
I read a book about the AK-47 called The Gun, by C.J. Chivers. It talked about the process through which the AK was made, Kalashnikov himself, the derivatives of the rifle, and the political reasons for its widespread use. That is partly what is influencing me to get a genuine Russian-made SGL-21 71, and will most likely lead me towards collecting AK's

 

[TexasBill]

Like millions of American kids, I was entranced by Roy Rogers, Wild Bill Hickock, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, Paladin and all the other Western heroes of the 1950s and 1960s. However, I never did have a passion for a Colt SAA.

I had both the Model 29 and the .44 Auto Mag before Dirty Harry. I also had the .357 Auto Mag.

However, Broderick Crawford playing Dan Mathews in Highway Patrol, Lee Marvin in M Squad, Mike Connors in Tightrope, Craig Stevens in Peter Gunn, Ephrem Zimbalist in 77 Sunset Strip, and countless cops and PIs from that era made a .38 Special snubbie a must-have. In fact, several must-haves and one still-have.

And, yes, a certain suave British secret agent influenced my purchase of a Walther PPK. I still have a Walther .380, but it's now a PK380. Perhaps Mr. Bond will use one of these in a future film.

 

[ObsidianOne]

Well I guess I belong to the club now, bought a Mosin Nagant 91/30 and I can't help but to feel my love of these rifles is somewhat connected to Enemy at the Gates.

 

[gf1723]

The movie Heat kind of influenced my AR-15 purchase. Even though it's an older movie, it's been one of my favorite bank robbery movies! Not going to lie either, the video game series Left 4 Dead also somewhat influenced the AR-15 buy.

I almost bought a HK USP from the movie Collateral. I ended up with a 1911 instead, but will think about an HK USP as a future carry.

 

[NoirFan]

Basically any gun that Phillip Marlowe or Sam Spade carried in those old pulp detective novels, I would like to have. Short-barreled .38s, Lugers that would somehow disappear into a pants pocket, 38-44 'hand cannons', all that stuff.

I also like pre-AR15 police/military long guns for that same reason. Lever-action rifles, M14s, .351 Winchesters, wood-stocked riot shotguns and the like.

 

[alemonkey]

Quigley Down Under came out when I was a teenager and I have wanted a Sharps ever since then. I finally bought one about 5 years ago:

 

[Airburst]

Both the local media and national media. I was living in San Diego at the time and a horrific robbery/murder occured in the Gas Lamp and basically this scumbag walks up to a couple in the street, demands money and when it didn't immediately go his way, he shot the guy in the head and ran off. I think he got twenty bucks or so. I went out and bought me a FEG 380 that I carried in my briefcase when I was walking downtown, seeing my accounts. (I still have that gun and I shoot it quite well) I also bought me a TEC DC9 when the PRC banned a bunch of assault weapons. I still have that too, but it is broken right now and sits in the back of my safe, dreaming of the time it will see the light of day. Also bought me a post ban MAK90, cause well you know why.

 

[Rembrandt]

Vic Morrow (Sgt Saunders, TV series "Combat"), always wanted a Thompson.....unfortunately I've yet to get the real thing, perhaps a semi-auto version will do.

 

[Shoot66]

The 1911. In Europe, where SIG-Sauers, HKs, Walthers, Glocks and CZs are the daily tools, the 1911 is generally considered an outdated concept.