Secret Agent Handgun

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

If I needed a gun, it would be whatever POS handgun I could buy off the street to be used and tossed.

Your real weapon would be a rock solid identity and backstory, and maybe a few disposable passports if SHTF. Spies generally do very little killing. It's intelligence gathering, not assassination. When "wet jobs" are needed, it's usually contracted out to locals so that it can't be traced back to official channels. And that is very rare.


Not to be a spoilsport and to answer the actual question, I would pick an HK P30 =)

 

[zxcvbob]

an icepick.

 

[devans0]

That plastic gun that wouldn't show up on scanners or x-rays.

 

[az_imuth]

I'd use my "Secret" Special Agent boot knife, of course. Unlike those noisy guns, it's completely silent, although a bit messy.

 

[fasttheo]

The Equalizer's "ballistic knife" (fast forward to 1:00)

http://youtu.be/BFwm98phlIQ

 

[ForumSurfer]

To quote John McLane..."That punk pull a Glock 7 on me, you know what that is?
It's a porcelain gun made in Gemany. Didn't show upon your
airport X-Ray machine here, and it cost more than what you make
in a month."



I'd expect I'd go with whatever fit my cover story. I can't be some poor guy on the come-up in the local gang if I'm packing a $4000, 6" 10mm STI and I can't infiltrate some high stakes Texan oil baron/Embezzlement ring with a .32 chrome Jennings.

 

[Jim K]

Too many people watch too much James Bond nonsense. Spies don't carry guns. Period. An agent who is caught or even questioned might talk his way out of trouble. But an agent caught carrying a gun will have a very short acquaintance with the target country's "justice" system.

Jim

 

[Certaindeaf]

^
So you're a proponent of ye olde cyanide capsule?

 

[PaulKersey3]

So that diplomat (blown agent) in Pakistan killed those ISI motorcycle punks with kindness? C'mon dude!

 

[DAP90]

This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8GrN83VITM

Don't mind me and my flashlight

 

[CZguy]

Too many people watch too much James Bond nonsense. Spies don't carry guns. Period. An agent who is caught or even questioned might talk his way out of trouble. But an agent caught carrying a gun will have a very short acquaintance with the target country's "justice" system.

No, no, no..........sixty years worth of Hollywood movies shattered.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

But isn't that the measure of an agent? The good ones don't get caught............ As far as Bond, forget the movies. Read the books. Most of the time Bond WAS unarmed, but was "licensed" on certain occasions to kill a designated enemy or agent. For that, the little Beretta was the choice. At the time (1950's), it could probably have been smuggled into most countries, and used at contact distance to assassinate the target. Fleming came from a time and place where real agents did exactly that, and gleaned his knowledge of clandestine operations from those in the field.

 

[sawdeanz]

How about a suppressed Nagant Revolver? Quieter than an auto and no cases left behind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvF4yurWSc0

 

[talldragon]

Since this is all imaginary,I would go with this one:

 

[Pilot]

Ill be a pain in someones side and say a HK mp7

If you mean the HK P7, I would tend to agree. I've always thought that should have been the "Bond" gun once it was introduced in the 70's, but as Bond was largely a Walther guy, they gave him a Walther P-5 at one point which is another good choice. Interestingly similar to the U.N.C.L.E. P-38.

 

[mac66]

In the books, James Bond carried a variety of handguns including a "long barrel Colt 45" which he always kept under the dash board of his Aston Martin. He also carried a Smith and Wesson 38 spl. snub nose in at least one of his books as well as a bunch of other pistols. His Beretta was a .25 acp and his Walther was a .32 acp.

It is pretty clear from reading the books that author Ian Fleming didn't know much about guns.

If is was me, I would be happy with one of those ".25 calibre", take down sniper rifles Bond used to shoot down a helicopter and kill bad guys.







Maxwell Smart used one made up to look like a Thompson

 

[mac66]

How about the "I Spy" tv series guys Robert Culp and Bill Cosby

 

[EvilGenius]

With the same suppressor that hickok45 had on the HK 45 tactical, but in flat black.

Edit:

And/or one of these.

 

[PaulKersey3]

Fleming himself carried a 6.35mm baby Browning when he was in Brit Naval Intelligence during the war. When he later armed Bond in his novels with the Beretta M418 it was from experience. An actual armorer who was the inspiration for Q wrote Fleming complaining about Bond's anemic "lady pistol" and encouraged Fleming to rearm Bind with something a little harder hitting. A guy did a Bond 418 beretta custom job a few years back. I'll see if I can dig up the pics.

 

[PaulKersey3]

Skeletonized like it sez in the book!

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

^^^Very unique reverse threading; very rarely seen. You can poo-poo the Bond books, but they are more real world than the movies. To think that the setup above (Beretta .25) with suppressor) would not be effective is being a little naive. A .25 in the throat, towards the brain, or in the eye, is about as deadly as it gets. A bullet doesn't have to penetrate skull, or bouce off bones if the shooter is very close to the target. Once again, a skilled agent tries not to get into running gunfights, but may be tasked to eliminate an enemy at close range. For long range, we have rifles.

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[/IMG] ^^^^^^^^^^^Two reason why Fleming might have liked these guns.

 

[Ryanxia]

I hate to be boring but I'm thinking Glock 23 in 9mm with suppressor.

 

[stonecutter2]

Suppressed Walther TPH .22LR.

Less noise, less mess.

No need to blow through their skull, just into it.

 

[Tango57]

IF I were a spy, I'd be a cool one, of course. And what would be cooler than a Gyrojet?


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[x_wrench]

a nuclear rifle! lol. more likely a ruger lc9. very concealable, just enough (barely) power, and a nice flat basic black. what else could you ask for? i'd keep the nuclear rifle back at the hotel room for back up.