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Bond firearms: Ian Fleming

Firearms mentioned by Ian Fleming:

  1. Casino Royale
    • Beretta 418, Bond’s issued sidearm
    • Colt Police Positive with sawn barrel. Bond keeps one under his pillow while he sleeps
    • Long-barreled .45 Colt Army Special, which Bond keeps under his Bentley’s dashboard
  2. Live and Let Die
    • Beretta 418, Bond’s issued sidearm
    • Colt Detective Special. Bond takes this off Tee-Hee’s corpse and uses it to kill two more of Mr Big’s men in the car park
    • Champion speargun. Bond uses this to fend off a barracuda during his swim to Mr Big’s island
  3. Moonraker
    • .38 Colt Detective Special, Bond’s gun he uses when training at the Services Shooting Gallery
    • Beretta 418, Bond’s issued sidearm
    • Long-barreled .45 Colt Army Special which Bond keeps under his Bentley’s dashboard
  4. Diamonds Are Forever
    • Beretta 418, Bond’s issued sidearm
  5. From Russia with Love
    • Beretta 418, Bond’s issued sidearm
    • Red Grant’s .25 electric gun hidden inside a hollowed-out copy of War and Peace
  6. Dr No
    • Walther PPK, Bond’s new issued sidearm
    • Beretta 418. James Bond is forced to hand back this gun over to M
    • Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight for “long-range work”. Bond decides to take this to Crab Key island instead of the PPK as there will be no time for close encounters
    • Smith & Wesson .38. Bond finds this gun on Crab Key and uses it to kill three of Doctor No’s men
  7. Goldfinger
    • Bond carries his Walther PPK in a hollowed-out copy of The Bible to be Read as Literature
    • Long-barreled .45 Colt Army Special which Bond keeps in a trick compartment under the driver’s seat in his Aston Martin
  8. For Your Eyes Only
    1. From a View to a Kill (short story)
      • Long-barreled .45 Colt Army Special. Bond’s issued sidearm as he hunts for a Russian spy
    2. For Your Eyes Only (short story)
      • Walther PPK, Bond’s issued sidearm
      • Savage 99F. Bond is given the gun by an Canadian police Colonel, a “Colonel Johns”
    3. Quantum of Solace — No gun is mentioned or used
    4. Risico (short story)
      • Walther PPK, Bond’s issued sidearm
    5. The Hildebrand Rarity (short story)
      • Champion speargun. Bond used this to kill a Stingray in the Seychelles
  9. Thunderball
    • Walther PPK, Bond’s issued sidearm
  10. The Spy Who Loved Me
    • As this book is told from the point-of-view of the “Bond-girl”, the identity of Bond’s gun is not mentioned. But it is presumably his Walther PPK
    • Smith & Wesson Police Positive. Bond gives this gun to Vivienne Michel “in case she needs it”.(Fleming likely intended this to be a Colt Police Positive, but he had suffered a heart attack during the final editing process and the error was never corrected)
    • Submachine gun. Bond mentions in an anecdote that he used a submachine gun on his last mission in Canada, and that he fired from the hip which is “the correct way to fire” an automatic weapon
    • Bond keeps a gun under his pillow as he sleeps, but this gun is never identified
  11. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
    • Walther PPK, Bond’s issued sidearm
  12. You Only Live Twice
  13. The Man with the Golden Gun
    • Cyanide gun
    • Walther PPK, Bond’s issued sidearm
    • Francisco Scaramanga’s gold-plated single-action Colt .45 which Bond uses once to shoot a pineapple off a showgirl’s head
  14. Octopussy and The Living Daylights
    1. Octopussy (short story) — No gun is mentioned or used
    2. The Property of a Lady (short story) — No gun is mentioned or used, though the cyanide water pistol from ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ is alluded to
    3. The Living Daylights (short story) —
      • Winchester .308 International Experimental target rifle. Bond uses this to shoot a KGB assassin in West Berlin
      • AK-47, used by the KGB assassin Trigger. Bond identifies it as a “Kalashnikov”, but incorrectly as a “submachine gun”; The AK is an assault/automatic rifle. Actually, such a weapon would be a terrible choice for a sniper, as it is quite innacurate at long ranges, though Bond quips that it would turn the target into “strawberry jam”
    4. 007 in New York (short story) — No gun is mentioned or used
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