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User talk:Potentpoefie
So far, you've made a couple of incorrect edits...
- (1.) The USP in Collateral is a .45. It has been confirmed by various sources, not the least of whom is armorer Steve Karnes, who is an administrator on this very site. 9x19mm pistols may be preferred in Hollywood, but that was not the case here.
- (2.) The Desert Eagles in The Matrix are indeed the .50 AE version. This has been confirmed by John Bowring, who was the movie's armorer, and it can be confirmed by looking at the bore in the screencaps provided. The .357 bore is MUCH smaller than the .50 bore.
- I may be wrong, but it looks to me as though the USP in Collateral actually does have the magazine "shoe". Look at this screencap (make sure you click on it twice to blow it up to its maximum size):
- But even so, isn't the mag shoe not such a good way to tell the USP-45 from the 9mm or .40 S&W variants? I've seen plenty of pictures of USP-45s (on HKPRO, no less) with magazines inserted that had no shoe. I have no idea, because I've only handled/fired the basic 9mm Variant 1 USP myself recently.
- As far as the use of 9mm guns in Hollywood goes, Steve has told us that this was the trend up until about the 1990s, because the older gunsmiths in the business found 9mm pistols easiest and most reliable to convert to blank-fire. Since then, younger armorers have started to solve the issues that other calibers had when "blanked". Nowadays, there are plenty of blank-converted pistols in .45 ACP, .40 S&W, and other such calibers being used in the industry. However, because the prop houses and armories acquired so many of the 9mm Berettas, Glocks, 1911 clones, etc. over the years, they still show up pretty frequently in our favorite movies and TV shows. -MT2008 13:44, 18 July 2009 (UTC)