Which movies made you want to get a gun?

Bought my CZ 550 right after watching "No country for Old Men" even if there no CZ in the movie, just decided to get a scoped bolt action rifle...

The movie directly responsible for the first two guns I ever bought was "Dawn of the Dead" (the 2003 remake). I lived in Berkely CA at the time and saw zombies on the street every day, and they are just as scary up close in person as they are on the big screen.

I just KNEW I wanted a 12 gauge with a perforated metal heat shield like Ving Rhaymes wielded (the ex-USMC cop). That's why I've got a Mossberg 590.

Also knew I wanted a powerful handgun that would gladly get run over by a truck, dumped in the mud, set on fire, go thru the laundry and still pretty much work ok, but I just couldn't stomach getting a Glock - so I got a Ruger GP-100 instead. After a very sweet professional trigger job that got the SA pull down to 3 pounds even and the additon of some fiber-optic sights, it's one heck of a sweet handgun.

Hopalong Cassidy on black & white TV and Saturday Matinees...Even had a double rig Hoppy cap gun holster and guns...not to mention my Broom stick horse...

Bowling for Columbine made me want to get lots and lots of guns.

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YESSS!!!

I have had an interest in guns for as long as I can remember...so I can't say with certainty what movies got me "interested." I can say that as a child of the post-Vietnam/late Cold War era there were plenty.

Red Dawn did everything it was supposed to do to my young mind and impressed upon me the true rationale behind civilian firearms ownership. I was young...but not young enough to miss the import of several key scenes.

Namely...

1) Colonel Bella ordering his men to collect ATF paperwork form 4473 from the local sporting goods stores.
2) The boys getting word that Robert's father was killed for "aiding guerrillas."

Couple Red Dawn with gradeschool viewings of the 1957 Disney classic Johnny Tremain and I think you've got it.

EDIT I've long since developed the ability to parse the propaganda...but I recognize the early impact these movies had. I also read volume after volume of Mack Bolan novels (which had a "gun of the month" on the back inside cover of each volume) and non-fiction books by a writer named C.B. Colby that detailed all of the arms developed by all sides of the Cold War.

Red Dawn did makes it Ok and even cool for an American to wield an AK.

"The Blue Lagoon"

I wanted to shoot my TV.

Kelly's Heroes > Thompson MG
Walking Tall (The old Bo Svenson films, not the new garbage) > .357

Svenson also made me want to get a really big stick, too.

There was something really menacing about Denzel Washington wielding two Smith and Wesson 1911s in Training Day. It made me want to get one.



The gold-plated 1911s Nicholas Cage had in Face Off were cool too, but I wasn't going to rush out and buy some.




On a side note, I saw some talk about Dawn of the Dead 2004. I think it should be noted during the director's comments (on the DVD) they said they made a commitment to use regular guns found in American society- Glocks, shotguns, 1911s, hunting rifles, etc.

This is impressive because generally a Hollywood director or producer has access to a dazzling assortment of "cool" gun props to choose from. It is common for directors (who may lack firearms knowledge) to pick out "cool looking guns" that are less common (or may not fit the character/scenario)- such as Desert Eagles, tricked-out MP5s, .44 magnums, etc.

I was pleased to see the characters in Dawn 04 weren't running around with chrome-plated Desert Eagles.

I guess I always had an interest in firearms, but I must say that Terminator II was the movie that made my 12 year old mind want to own an entire collection of exotically dangerous and prohibited weaponry. Someday, someday...

Plus, I think that movie was the first I ever saw in which "realistic" gun reloading and ballistics were extensively portrayed.

Watching "Foxy Brown" made me want to buy a Bauer .25acp (Baby Browning clone).....and a polyester bell-bottom suit with matching hat.

South Park made me want a H&K G36

buck00 said:

There was something really menacing about Denzel Washington wielding two Smith and Wesson 1911s in Training Day.

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Those aren't 1911's. They have a slide safety.

I think they're 4506's.


-T.

Skunky, Deliverance made me wanna own as much as I could get my hands on... I figure if they'd capped the kid on bridge at the beginning, to show they were serious...

I would have to say all the Dirty Harry series. Then came the mtv westerns The Quick & The Dead & Young Guns. Then came the classic Eastwood westerns (Unforgiven, Outlaw Josey Wales, High Plains Drifter, Joe Kidd, Good Bad & Ugly, etc.)...

Oops.... it does show im a revolver guy!

a Bauer .25acp (Baby Browning clone).....and a polyester bell-bottom suit with matching hat.

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Red Dawn- like some have said, my impressionable mind at the time loved the idea of someone near my age getting their hands on that firepower.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome- the scene in which Gibson has to disarm before entering Bartertown gets me everytime!

Force 10 From Navarone- Classic

Good Bad and the Ugly-Because I like my Westerns with spaghetti and I love when Tuco disassembles several revolvers in the General Store to find the best 'fit'...great stuff!

Dirty Harry- Because, well, it's Dirty Harry

Deathwish

I'm sure I can think of a few more...

Well I already had 6 at the time, but "The Strangers" made my gf want to get her first

Deliverance: Since I have been to many places as shown in Deliverance, that movie certainly hit home for me. Never had a problem, by the way.

Red Dawn for the apocalyptic aspects.

Network news when they reported the Katrina aftermath.

The movie that got me into guns was, wait for it...
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
No, I'm not kidding.
I watched that movie for the second time in 2006, when my interest was primarily military aircraft.
I started to redesign, as was my habit, stuff in the movie, like her glider. Since the glider had a slot for her rifle, I kept looking at that. Soon, I was redesigning the rifle, which led to my first two gun designs, a .308-caliber SKS-like rifle and a .50 BMG loooooong rifle (I mean, like six foot barrel).
The rest is history. It was my compulsion for redesign that go me into guns, and Nausicaa was the movie that just made that click.
By the way, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is like the Star Wars of anime (not that anyone on this forum cares), i.e., it was a revolutionary work in the style and character of such pieces.

Deliverance made me want a bow.


-T.

Jaws

It wasn't movies, but video games that influenced me. Specifically, counter strike.

They piqued my interest, and then I started reading from there. Found glocktalk, THR, arfcom and others, and the rest is history.

My first gun purchase was a Beretta 9000s after seeing it in "Minority Report."