jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (12/13/85)
Article: 12:7 Ok, this is hardly of earthshaking importance, but it might be good for Trivial Pursuit in a few years. What does Crockett on "Miami Vice" carry? And what's a reasonable price for one? A friend of mine swears its an AMT Hardballer .45; I've never gotten a close enough look to recognize it. [I'll cast my vote for the Hardballer Longslide.. -jh] J. Johnson ihnp4!ihdev!rastaman
jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (12/18/85)
Article: 12:17
Hi,
I read somewhere that it was a Bren 10mm. They are still supposed to be
relatively new and not widely availiable. It's just what I've heard though so
it could be wrong.
Dan H.jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (12/18/85)
Article: 12:15 I thought that he carried a Bren Ten. There is an amusing article mentioning this in [I think] the latest Soldier of Fortune. Whereever the column was, it mentioned that a recent episode showed him ejecting and *dropping* his Bren Ten magazine. Now, if you've been following the Bren Ten saga, you'll jknow that the guns are more plentiful than the magazines (and the guns are still fairly rare) -- the manufacturer had a reall mess-up when it came to getting the magazines produced. So the column relates that, the day after the episode was shown, having identified the site from landmarks visible on the TV, some Bren Ten owners descended on that filming location like locusts, searching for that discarded magazine, and that one found it. Now, the whole piece reads like an April Fool article, so I put no credence in it being factual. But it was amusing. The piece ended with a slam at Dornaus & Dixon (if I spelled that right), the Bren Ten makers, for supplying magazines to film companies when people who had paid for their guns years ago still haven't gotten them, or gotten them without magazines! Ah, well... Who knows.... (As for price for a Bren Ten, well, considering what I've read, I wouldn't pay too much for one myself. They probably are commanding high prices amongst those who want them, if you have one to sell complete with magazine or one of the early commemorative special models.) Regards, Will UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (12/18/85)
Author: 12:16 Crocket carrys a Bren 10 in the shoulder rig. It was identifed as such in one episode where he was practicing on a range run by some Nazi. The Nazi was a contact for a gun runner that had some MAC-10's for sale. The pistol in his ankle rig looks like the chopped Detonics 45. Speaking of TV cop guns. Is Lady Blue's piece a Dan Wesson? My guess is that it is. John Mireley
kab@hal.UUCP (01/05/86)
Article: 1:4 The AMT (Arcadia Machine Tools) Longslide Hard-Baller is a Gawd awfully large gun, and quite easy to spot. My guess is a Colt Gold Cup (Customized). It comes in satin nickel, at a cost that is in league with the jackets he wears over tee-shirts!! His "image" is 1st class . . . No Star-PD's in his arsenal. -----------------------------> Now its my turn. What kind of gun does James Bond prefer . . . Even to the chagrin of his Superiors? Hint: They like the Walther PPK KAB