American Dragons (also known as Double Edge) is a low-budget 1998 crime thriller. It stars Michael Biehn as an NYPD Detective who partners with a South Korean detective (Joong-Hoon Park) to solve a series of murders which threaten to bring the city's Italian Mafia and Japanese Yakuza to war with each other.
The following guns can be seen in this movie:
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Detective Tony Luca (Michael Biehn) carries a Smith & Wesson Sigma SW9F as his sidearm throughout the movie, even though the NYPD neither issues nor authorizes this pistol in real life. Rocco (Don Stark) briefly handles Luca's Sigma and tries to shoot a cop with it during their first meeting.
Due to a continuity error, Luca's Smith & Wesson Sigma SW9F magically transforms into a Smith & Wesson 5904 when he knocks the gun out of Rocco's hand to prevent him from shooting a police officer.
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Beretta 92FS
Many of the Italian Mafiosos, including Rocco (Don Stark), carry the Beretta 92FS as their sidearms, which is fitting for them since the Beretta is an Italian-made weapon. In the opening scene, two mafia thugs carry 92FS pistols fitted with suppressors, one of which is briefly used by Detective Luca to wound a thug.
During the shooting at the bowling alley, Rocco (Don Stark) carries an IMI Desert Eagle Mark VII in .357 Magnum as one of his weapons, which is used akimbo with an Armsel Striker. When he loads the gun, there is a very nice close-up of the slide in which it is possible to read ".357 Magnum" (the caliber can also be discerned from looking closely at the bore aperture).
A Paratrooper version of the FN Minimi is used by one of the drive-by shooters during the attempted hit on Detective Luca and Detective Kim (Joong-Hoon Park).
A Smith & Wesson Model 686 is used by one of the Italians during the bowling alley shooting. Later on, this same gun is used by Detective Luca when he and Kim visit the temple where Rocco and the assassin have been hiding out (it seems rather odd that he trades his S&W Sigma SW9F for this weapon).
When Luca and Kim capture Matsuyama (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) at a meeting in which his men are all fully armed, one of the Yakuza thugs is armed with a Ruger MP9.
A two-tone Kimel AP-9 (with a stainless upper receiver/barrel shroud) can be seen in the hands of one of the Yakuza gunmen during the scene in which Matsuyama gets captured.
One of the Yakuzas in the opening scene carries a suppressed MAC-10 machine pistol that he uses to shoot at the sword-wielding assassin rather unsuccessfully. Another MAC-10 (without a suppressor) is carried by a Yakuza in the scene where Matsuyama is captured.
Detective Kim (Joong-Hoon Park) can be seen using a stainless pistol which appears to be a Walther PPK/S when he and Luca capture Matsuyama, but it is hard to tell because the weapon is never seen clearly.
During the film's climax, Detective Luca draws another compact revolver from an ankle holster, which he seems to carry as a backup piece. He uses it when facing off against Rocco.
