From the Feb. 6, 2013, Chicago Tribune by Rebecca Keegan.
Ever wonder what kind of guns you are seeing used in the movies? Now, you can find out. Well, that is a Glock-17 in "Skyfall" and Zero Dark Thirty." James Bond's sidearm of choice is a Walther PPK/S and the long-barreled rifles the Prohibition agents use in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" are Winchesters.
You can find out your gun needs at the Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDB), a fan-build catalog of the weapons started by Christopher Serrano, 29, of Glendora, California. He and 300 regular volunteers have catalogued the weapons in 11,500 articles and not just firearms, but underwater firearms, missile launchers, flame-throwers and others.
It is somewhat like Amazon's Internet Movie Database (IMDB).
Jaime Foxx in "Django Unchained" carries a variant of a Sharps rifle and Remington 1858 Cattleman's Carbine.
Pop culture movies and guns go back to 1903's "The Great Train Robbery" and you can find all of them at IMFDB. In case you're wondering, the gun Clint Eastwood used in "Gran Torino" was a M1-Garand.
"Bang Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down." --Cooter
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