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Bren Ten
Bren Ten
The Bren Ten was a semi-automatic pistol designed around a new, more powerful round: the 10mm Auto. The gun was a bigger and a stronger version of the 9 mm CZ-75. The Bren Ten was produced only in small numbers before the company went bankrupt. A subsequent attempt to resurrect it by Perigrine Industries as the Falcon and the Phoenix were also unsuccessful as that company too dropped production of the pistol. However, it is to be brought back again by Vltor Weapon Systems as the Fortis Pistol.
The Bren Ten is used by the following actors in the following TV-series:
- Don Johnson in Miami Vice (five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989)
Miami Vice and the Bren Ten
The Bren Ten is perhaps most notable for having been Sonny Crockett's pistol in the television series Miami Vice. He wore it in the first and second season of the show - except in the pilot episode, where he used a SIG-Sauer P220 - from 1984 to 86. The two Bren Tens used in the show were customized, applying chrome to the slide in order to make it more visible during night scenes. (Reportedly, the guns were altered to fire .45 ACP blanks, a modification that led to numerous malfunctions during filming.)
The highly popular show generated intense interest in the pistol, although the company was not able to deliver on this demand. When the company went bankrupt, the product placement position went up for grabs, being filled by the Smith & Wesson 645, and later the Smith & Wesson 4506.
The gun is considered a collector's item. Due to the TV-series it has become popular for owners to give the Bren Ten the "Miami Vice treatment". "Miami Vicing" a Bren Ten consists of taking a full-sized Standard Model and hard chroming the pistol's slide to replicate the finish of the gun used by Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) on the television series Miami Vice. This is a relatively simple process and nothing else is required to duplicate the Miami Vice Bren Ten.
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NOTE: Crockett's interim gun, while functionally a SIG Sauer P220, was a Browning BDA. Browning imported these guns in several calibers, along with other pistols (including a .380) under the BDA brand.
The Bren Ten (standard 2-tone, fullsize version) also appears in the hands of two-faced agent 'Practiss' in the film The Last Action Hero.