The Sig-Sauer X5 in From Paris With Love has a removable grip?

[Saakee]

In the film, John Travolta's gun, Mrs Johnson I believe is his name for it, is smuggled in to France inside three energy drinks, one holds the slide, an other seems to hold the grips/straps on the hand hold area (not sure how to put it), and an other held the upper part of the receiver that the slide mates to.

From the image I've uploaded, it looks like it was cut after the factory by a gunsmith to make this breakdown (At least, I just presume it from the slightly ding-y look of the edge and seeing others online without any sort of seam there).

Am I wrong? Is this a factory design? Because I gotta admit, if it's from the factory like this, I really want one. And if it's not factory design, is this hollywood 'magick' feasible to do to a real gun or is that just a horridly bad idea? (Please don't ask why I'd want this on a gun, sometimes we fall in love with an idea, even if there's no real use for it besides the ooh-aah factor.)

 

[Telekinesis]

That's definitely not a factory design and there is no feasible way to do that to a Sig gun based off the P series. Apart from the grip panels, there's no way to attach the bottom of the gun, and I definitely wouldn't want to bet the functionality of a gun on two thin pieces of plastic. Also, if you look at a picture of a Sig with the grips off, you'll see a spring at the back of the grip. Without the lower portion of the gun, there would be no way to keep that spring under tension.

Keep in mind that the X5 is a competition pistol. Removable parts are not the best way to keep accuracy, especially when the modification isn't required by the end user. You don't see many folding stocks in long range rifle competitions either.

 

[Saakee]

Figured. Oh well, it was an amusing thought while it lasted. Still, a nice popcorn flick.

 

[Plan2Live]

Movie fluff. If the scenario was real and if the Operator wanted a specific weapon it would have been brought into the Country in a diplomatic bag, not smuggled in inside drink cans. But more than likely, a real operator might request a particular make and model weapon but it would just be a generic weapon not a specific serial number. One man, any weapon.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

I watched that film. Another nearly two hours of my life, down the drain.

This "takedown pistol" can go into the fictional gun archives, like Ah-nuld's "Podbyrin 9.2 'milla-meeta'" in one of his early films, Red Heat.