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| Above, Sean Connery as James Bond with his Walther PPK. Photo by Eon Productions. |
The September issue of the National Rifle Association's American Rifleman arrived in the mail today and if one is a subscriber (through their membership) and is also a fan of James Bond 007, they're in for a treat.
There's an article on Bond's Walther PPK that author Ian Fleming had his secret agent armed with, "Unshaken: Walther's PPK". It gives a history of Walther pistols with a good mention of agent 007.
Originally, Bond carried a .25 ACP Beretta Model 418 semi-automatic, but a mishap happened when the Beretta's silencer got caught on a chamois shoulder rig forcing his boss, M, to have the agent to switch to the Walther PPK (in its original 7.65 mm Browning chambering).
Although Bond protested that the silencer was what got caught and could have happened with any gun, Q (quartermaster) replaced the Beretta with the "superior" Walther PPK.
In the movies, this switch of guns took place in 1962's Dr. No.
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