A detailed article in Soldier of Fortune in the mid-1980s shed a lot of insight into the weapons & SFX of NBC's hit cop series: Miami Vice.
Det Sgt James "Sonny" Crockett used a 10mm Bren 10 from D&D in the first few episodes but when the company had problems, the show producers moved to the S&W 645 .45acp.
In the TV show pilot(a series first episode), Crockett used a SIG P220 .45acp(imported by Browning in the 1970s-1980s).
The Bren 10 was considered new & experimental by many US police agencies in the early 1980s.
For more details see;
www.imfdb.org .
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