Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

The following guns were used in the film Beverly Hills Cop

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Beverly Hills Cop (1984) - note the erroneous Colt 1911 Eddie Murphy is holding, in place of the Hi-Power used in the film

Browning Hi-Power

The weapon used by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) in this movie is a Browning Hi-Power pistol. In the second screen cap, note the external extractor. The manufacturer, FN, switched from an internal extractor to the external extractor in the early 1960's. This help date Foley's gun as a post-WWII pistol.

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Browning Hi-Power - 9mm

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A Beverly Hills Cop holds Axel's Browning Hi-Power.

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Axel Foley kills a henchmen with his Browning Hi-Power.

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Axel and Taggert fire at an Uzi-wielding henchmen.

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Axel reloads his Browning Hi-Power.

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Axel fires his Browning Hi-Power at a henchmen. Eddie Murphy does a pretty good job at keeping his eyes open, unlike pretty much everyone else in the movie.

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Axel with his Hi-Power.

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Axel turns around when he hears Zach pump his shotgun, Hi-Power in hand.

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Axel fires at Zach.

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Axel with his Hi-Power just before Zach fires at him.

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Axel searches for Maitland.

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Axel aims his Hi-Power at Maitland.

IMI Uzi

Maitland's thug use IMI Uzis during the final gunfight at the end of the film.

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IMI Uzi - 9x19mm

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One of Maitland's thugs fires a Uzi.

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One of Maitland's thugs peeking around the corner with an Uzi.

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One of Maitland's thugs gets shot by Axel, Uzi in hand.

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Two of Maitland's thugs reload their Uzis.

Colt Detective Special

A nickeled, 1st generation version of this revolver, without the enclosed ejector rod, is carried by Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold).

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Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) aims a pre-1972 Colt Detective Special at the end of the film.

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Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) reloads his pre-1972 Colt Detective Special

Smith & Wesson Model 19

The 2.5"-barrel version of this revolver is used as a service handgun by John Taggart (John Ashton).

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John Taggart (John Ashton) fires his Model 19

Custom Smith & Wesson Model 629

A short, 2.5"-barreled, Mag-na-ported .44 magnum handgun is used by Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff).

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3" barreled S&W "Lew Horton" 629

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Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff) fires his 629 at Axel Foley

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Maitland holds the 629 on Jeannette "Jenny" Summers (Lisa Eilbacher)

A similar gun can be seen in other movies, like Extreme Prejudice and The Hitcher (1986).

Smith and Wesson Model 639

We can see several times one of these 2nd generation S&W pistols, with adjustable sights (probably, the same gun was used in all the scenes).

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S&W 639, 9 mm, with adjustable sights

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One of the Maitland's bodyguards with a 639

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Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) fires his 639 into Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff)

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Detective Jeffrey Friedman (Paul Reiser) with a holstered 639

Dan Wesson revolver

One of the Beverly Hills PD officers uses a 4" barreled revolver with enclosed ejector rod and ventilated rib. At first sight it looks like a Colt Trooper, but looking closely, it can be identified as a Dan Wesson revolver.

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Dan Wesson revolver in "Beverly Hills Cop"

Note that the cylinder opening latch is located ahead of the cylinder, a feature only found in Dan Wesson revolvers (arrow)

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Dan Wesson revolver in "Beverly Hills Cop". Note cylinder latch ahead of the cylinder -arrow-

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Dan Wesson revolver. Note cylinder latch ahead of the cylinder

Ithaca Shotgun

A Ithaca shotgun is used by one of the strip club robbers and John Taggart (John Ashton).

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One of the strip club robbers holds a Ithaca shotgun

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John Taggart (John Ashton) fires a Ithaca shotgun at the end of the film

Double barreled shotgun (unknown brand)

Used by the other strip club holdup men

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Unidentified firearms

We can see several handguns that are hard to identify precisely:

In the opening scenes, we can see several revolvers with fixed and adjustable sights, used by the Detroit PD officers. They are probably S&W model 10 & 19

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Another officer in this scene uses an auto pistol (S&W?)

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Gilber R. Hill, in his role of Inspector Todd, carries an auto pistol inside the waistband. It doesn't seem to be the S&W 639 seen in other scenes (I think that this pistol has fixed sights)

It could be a Colt MK IV series 70, the grips definitely look like Colt grips.

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