The gun Bond SHOULD have had...

[tetchaje1]

380ACP
Mauser HSc or Hsc Super (to be more progressive with the .380...)
SIG 232

9mm
Walther P5
HK P7M8
SIG 225

 

[Nightcrawler]

The Hi Power is an exceedingly Euro design. It isn't nearly as popular here as it is in the rest of the world, and it's been the Sidearm of Canada, England, and Belgium. FWIW, it was never produced in the United States.

Good Bond Guns? (For a modern Bond.)

Walther P5

H&K P7

H&K P9

Sig P225

Sig P239

All Images courtesy of World.Guns.Ru.

 

[Cosmoline]

BAH! I say. BAH HUMBUG to your new polymer big bore nonsense.

Bond's choice remains as good today as it was then.