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I was flipping through the channels and caught an old Miami Vice episode. There was a murder in the court room on trial. The lights go out and you hear a bunch of noise ending with the sound of a pump action shotgun. When the lights came on all of the court employees had a gun out pointed at the murder. The judge had the shotgun.
The judge states that he was glad they all believe in exercising their Second Amendment Rights. Gets a laugh and applause from the crowd and they all put the weapons away.
Let's ignore the fact they had a circular firing squad and trying to shoot someone in the dark. I just thought it was different to see guns not portayed in a bad light and mention of the Second Amendment on TV. Also, court officials carrying in a goverment building, including the stenographer. Citizens and lawyers may also have been carrying but the scene cut to quickly to tell for sure, all I could tell was there was a lot of guns pointed at this guy.
 
crockett had a 10 mm IIRC
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the venerable Bren Ten

How times have changed, a lot of the CSI type cop shows nowadays try with great effort to show guns in a negative light. That scene probably would be changed to include a hostage situation with the lights going out, and the perps girlfrined standing in front of him yelling at everyone to let him go, and ending with swat taking her out, and the lead character commenting something like "desperation and a gun will earn you a trip to the morgue":barf: needless to say, I like the tv land re-runs from way back.
 
Just a bit of trivia those of you might want to know!

In the pilot episode, Don Johnson carried a Browning BDA in .45 Auto. But once the series was picked up, they needed a stylish and new weapon for Sonny Crockett. In seasons 1 & 2, he carried a Bren Ten in 10MM Auto. However the manufacturer, Dornaus & Dixon went bust. So the ever up-to-date Sonny switches to a Smith & Wesson 645 chambered in .45 Auto for seasons 3 and 4. But wait, by the fifth season Smith and Wesson has a new gun and the ever fashionable Crockett upgrades to the new Smith & Wesson 4506, also in .45 Auto. The piece he carried in an ankle holster was a .45 Detonics Combatmaster.

About the shoulder holster. It had been made before Miami Vice, sold as the Original Jackass Rig. The Jackass Leather Company changed their name to Galco and then Miami Vice hit the air. The rig became so popular that it is now called the Miami Classic rig and can be bought from Galco's website and other places.

Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) had a Smith and Wesson Model 38 Chief's Special and a Model 37 Ithaca Shotgun cut down.
 
There are a few pro-gun messages in tv shows these days,but you kind of have to search for them.Jerico is pretty pro.Also on CSI one season,Grissam made a big deal of how he didn't carry....in the course of the episode someone tries to kill him.At the end of the show,they show him at the range w/ his Glock.:cool:
 
Actually in the pilot episode of Miami Vice Don Johnson carried a Sig Sauer P220 in 45 acp. I always thought it was hilarious that he carried a Detonic in an ankle holster. Lightweight shoes, no socks and a chunky old 45 Detonic strapped onto his ankle. Okay.
 
I thot Miami Vice started him out with a Detonics Pocket 9 on his ankle.

Sure, Gil Grissom can carry a gun, he is, after all, Authorized Personnel.
You and I are not.

Best not to get your firearms expertise from TV and movies. Unless you are studying to be a prop man.
 
Actually the Sig 220 he had in the pilot was originally sold under the Browning name. So same gun.

His Detonics was replaced by the S&W 4616 to match his 4506 in later seasons.

His back up in the pilot was a Sig .380 in his waste band before they went to the Bren Ten/Detonics load out.

I have these on DVD, just great stuff. The 80's rocked.
 
That scene was from the very first episode.

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I remember in the opening for one of the shows, a hit man executes a guy in a limo, then drops his gun and starts to walk away. A concerned citizen pulls his concealed weapon and attempts to hold the hit man for police. The hit man is standing a few feet away, arms up, facing the citizen. The guy playing the hit man was no actor, he had to have been a pro; he dropped his arms, drew, and fired in what looked like less than one second, dropping the citizen. I remember being stunned at how fast that could be done.
 
Damn

The guy playing the hit man was no actor, he had to have been a pro; he dropped his arms, drew, and fired in what looked like less than one second, dropping the citizen.
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That's pretty fast. In that amount of time I would have probably only given him two fatal wounds. :neener:
 
Yeah..all 5 seasons now.
They include the "lost episodes."

They are all double sided disks though, I hate that.
 
The guy playing the hit man was no actor
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LOL
Yeah, he must have been ex NSA or somethin.

Just kidding...It was pretty fast. I think he practiced in front of a mirror, but who knows...
 
LOL, the show was many moons ago, and I only saw it once. I thought it was an IPSC shooter they hired to play that small part. I doubt it was an actor.
 
Yeah...
What was I thinking...

Hollyweird actors cant do anything right when it comes to guns in movies...
:)
 
BOOM!
That Spas must have had some 40x46mmR HE in the tube (!)

I love how vice always had the shooters (hitmen) wearing yellow shooting glasses in public.
Real covert, eh ?

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The guy playing the hit man was no actor

LOL
Yeah, he must have been ex NSA or somethin.

Just kidding...It was pretty fast. I think he practiced in front of a mirror, but who knows...


Not only was the Miami Vice "hit man," Jim Zubiena, a professional actor, but he was also a very respected competitor in the Southwest Pistol League, IPSC, in Los Angeles.

I know. I used to shoot with Jim, and also knew his work as an actor. He and I talked many times about shooting, "the Business," etc.

The speed of his draw in that episode was not faked, or "speeded up" in the editing room. In SWPL/IPSC, he was extremely fast, and asccurate.

FWIW.

L.W.
 
How times have changed, a lot of the CSI type cop shows nowadays try with great effort to show guns in a negative light.
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And for some reason the gun is always a .380, like it's some kind of super weapon. Save for the few times they can nail the exact make/model of a gun just by looking at the spent casing, in which case it's a Glock.
 
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