September 22, 2017, 08:16 PM | #1 |
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Weird gun from "Red Heat"
What kind of gun does Arnold have here? Something odd about it...
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September 22, 2017, 08:20 PM | #2 |
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Desert Eagle with the longer barrel on it
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September 22, 2017, 11:39 PM | #3 |
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The gun is a reworked Desert Eagle .357, modified to make it look more like a larger Walther P.38.
It is described as shooting a (fictional) Podbyrin 9.2mm cartridge.
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September 22, 2017, 11:42 PM | #4 |
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Only Arnie can make a DE look small.
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September 23, 2017, 12:41 AM | #5 |
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Ehhh, it didn't even "Shoot through schools".
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It's what you get when the director asked the armorer to make a "P38 on steroids"
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/(Red_Heat)..._9.2_mm_Pistol
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Nah, that's the Eighty-Eight Magnum that does that! That is one of my favorite lines from the movie Johnny Dangerously. "My mother hung me from a hook on the back of a door once. Once!"
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I didn't know that. I wish I could get my hands on my friends' .357 Mag Desert Eagle to convert it.
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I am glad somebody got the reference, I was feeling old.
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Any self respecting P-38 would take offense to that gun.
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What you see in movies is not real. What you hear in movies is not real.
Write that out 100 times.
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True, but what you see in the moves sometimes BECOMES real, years later.
When the Terminator was made, there was no laser sight small enough to FIT on a handgun. Today, there are lasers small enough to fit INSIDE a handgun!
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