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The Coolest Movie Guns

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Firearms have been a part of the movies since “The Great Train Robbery” flashed onto the Silver Screen in 1903. In many movies the gun is as important as the character, and often is what makes a scene iconic. AmericanRifleman.org has put together a list of 10 favorite movie guns and why they are so remembered.

  • M134 Minigun from “Predator”
  • Smith & Wesson Model 29 from “Dirty Harry”
  • Suppressed Remington 11-87 from “No Country for Old Men”
  • John Wayne’s Winchester Model 1892 from “True Grit”
  • Colt AR-15 with M203 Grenade Launcher from “Scarface”
  • Smith & Wesson Mk II Hand-Ejector from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
  • M60 Machinegun from “First Blood”
  • FN FNC-80 from “Heat”
  • Walther PPK from the James Bond Movies
  • Colt Navy 1851 Cartridge Conversion from “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”
Colt Navy 1851 Cartridge Conversion from “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”
Posted by: Paul Rackley

Colt Navy 1851 Cartridge Conversion from “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”

In “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” Clint Eastwood’s character still doesn’t have a name, though he’s called Blondie throughout the movie. Despite the fact that the Colt Navy 1851 Cartridge Conversion that Blondie carries throughout the film requires some imagination to be believable, it looks great with its rattlesnake grips in what could be the greatest three-man standoff of all time, let alone in this Western classic.

  • Mark

    10/5/2011 2:38:05 PM

    The fact that it is credible to the conversion of the metal cartridge 51 Navy Clint shows only your ignorance of deep knowledge of the Colt revolver. For your information the revolver used by Clint is a Colt 1851 Navy Conversion Richard ..... already in use during the Civil War. Maybe next time before you make judgments lapidary .... STUDYING. Hello mark

  • Sadat Blenishti

    4/14/2011 8:04:42 AM

    I'm sorry but you forgot the M1911 that Pike Bishop (William Holden) used in the movie ''THE WILD BUNCH''. Sincerely yours, Sadat from Kosovo.

  • brett m

    1/5/2011 4:07:47 PM

    What about the Springfield '03 in Saving Private Ryan that Barry Pepper's character manhandles left handed!

  • Bill Cosens

    11/28/2010 8:21:21 AM

    Don't see "The Rifleman" rifle that Chuck Conners used, nor the sawed off rifle that Steve McQueen used in "The Bounty Hunter".

  • xskills

    11/24/2010 1:43:47 AM

    they also forgot about the Glock 18 from The Dark Knight

  • Leonard M. Urban

    11/21/2010 3:22:44 PM

    You left out Charles Bronson's Wildey Survivor in "Death Wish 2", Don Johnson's Bren 10 in Miami Vice, and Clint Eastwood's Automag .44 in a later "Dirty Harry" incarnation.

  • davearmie

    11/20/2010 9:59:54 PM

    What about the sawed-off 1897 Winchester shotgun from "Terminator"? I know that any top-ten list will leave out something. It's just that I've never heard of a few of these movies.

  • Mark Hutchens

    11/18/2010 10:43:01 AM

    You missed the super 44 mag that Clint Eastwood used in one of the Dirty Harry series movies

  • jeffc

    11/18/2010 12:49:07 AM

    dissapointed. not one single desert eagle even mentioned, and theyre in COUNTLESS movies, always as the "bada**".

  • Jim Doolittle

    11/17/2010 6:24:08 PM

    Hi, How about the .44 Auto-Mag, also from Dirty Harry?

  • Cymond

    11/17/2010 5:39:20 PM

    Mike, the Beretta 92 is not a blowback. It uses a unique locking mechanism with a wedge under the barrel. The wedges are known to sometimes break after about 10,000 to 15,000 rounds, but a replacement wedge only costs about $35. Factory spec calls for a 13 pound recoil spring, so it isn't that hard to pull the slide. And recoil is comparable to any other 9mm that I've fired.

  • TONY CARUSO

    11/17/2010 6:46:20 AM

    HOW ABOUT PAHOO'S ON THE HIP SAWED OFF DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN, FROM YANCY DERRINGER?

  • SFC P. Fycyk III

    11/17/2010 3:43:00 AM

    What no Colt Walker from The Outlaw Josey Wales? Or the M-14 from Full Metal Jacket.

  • Glen

    11/17/2010 2:56:24 AM

    How about Barnaby Jones and that snubby revolver which he shot from the hip and never missed? Sorry, that was from TV and not a movie, but I had to throw it in. Since many of the guns of these movies were not real or modified heavily, I submit Hellboy's huge revolver.

  • Jeremy

    11/16/2010 9:37:14 PM

    What about the Cheyenne Tactical rifle in Shooter?

  • Paul R.

    11/16/2010 9:32:53 PM

    Missing the Sharps from Quigley Down Under, and the Martini-Henrys from Shaka Zulu

  • steve

    11/16/2010 7:09:08 PM

    The one movie that should have been there with a woman was Underworld. She hab HK fully automatic hand guns. The sexiest thing in the world is a beautiful woman with fully automatic hand guns.

  • Bill G

    11/16/2010 4:56:17 PM

    First,Patton had Ivory Grips as Pearl was for Pimps.Where was Frank Bullitt's Cobra and shoulder holster?Matthew Quigley's Sharps,so Tom Selleck should be knocking on your door.

  • Jeff

    11/16/2010 4:43:30 PM

    You forgot the M1 Garand from Saving Private Ryan. Or the Tommy Gun.

  • Mike Franklin

    11/16/2010 3:12:01 PM

    Why is it that in every movie with a simiauto, the gun is a Berrta 9mm? It is my experiance that the Bretta is blow back, thus extremely hard to chamber a round, especially by women, and the recoil is very hard. Good gun for the military, but not every day use by amatures.

  • Ron B

    11/16/2010 3:12:01 PM

    Hey, Steeve McQueen's Ballanger from the old B&W TV series, Bounty hunter shoulod be here too.

  • don

    11/16/2010 2:33:25 PM

    How about the wildly475 in Charles Bronson's death wish . truly a one-of-a-kind awesome weapon

  • Rikkor

    11/16/2010 12:41:15 PM

    Where in the heck is Quigley's rifle?

  • steve

    11/16/2010 11:57:49 AM

    what about the semi-autos used in the Lara Croft Tomb Raider movie??(still not sure which pistol was used)

  • Scott

    11/16/2010 11:53:57 AM

    In addition to the Sharps of Quigley, I would add the Freedom Arms .454 Casull of Alien Nation; the GE 134 Minigun of The Matrix; and maybe the .44 AutoMag Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact.

  • Tom F

    11/16/2010 11:40:29 AM

    Of course you have Dirty Harry's .44 but how about his .44 Auto-Mag?

  • Bill Gridley

    11/16/2010 10:48:35 AM

    Where is Frank Bullitt and his shoulder holster?I believe he used a Colt Cobra. And Matthew Quigley's Sharps.Mr.Tom Selleck should be tapping on your door with the butt of that rifle.Last of the Mohicans.Show us more.

  • Matt

    11/16/2010 10:39:02 AM

    Quigley Down Under, with that Sharps Rifle should be in here somewhere I think.

  • Ray

    11/16/2010 10:25:23 AM

    I can't believe that you missed the 2 Pearl Handle 1911's Patton carried.

  • Brian

    11/16/2010 10:19:05 AM

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's Colt was uninspiring. The 1858 Remington New Army Conversion he uses in Pale Rider is much more impressive.

  • Tom

    11/16/2010 9:18:26 AM

    How could you ignore the film where the gun was the lead character, overshadowing even Jimmy Stewart in Winchester 73?

  • Don

    11/16/2010 9:07:16 AM

    Wolverines! AK's, RPK's, RPD's, and RPG's--what's not to love about the iconic use of 80's-era Soviet weapons against themselves on American soil??? I submit Red Dawn as one of the greatest "gun movies" of all time . . .

  • Mike

    11/16/2010 9:03:24 AM

    Arnold's 10ga. Winchester 1887 Lever Action in T2 is both an homage to The Duke and a classic in and of itself.

  • John

    11/16/2010 8:57:49 AM

    Missed some good ones from T V. The sawed off model 94 of Steve McQueen in the Bounty Hunter and the pearl handled colt of Pallidin in Have Gun Will Travel.

  • Tom

    11/16/2010 8:30:23 AM

    Arnold's MP5 SD with M203 from "End of Days". Thump, thump, thump whooomp.

  • Jerry

    11/16/2010 8:30:16 AM

    Don't forget the Desert Eagles with the huge barrel extensions in Boondock Saints II !

  • joe

    11/16/2010 8:08:07 AM

    What about the two French revolvers Brendon Fraser had in the "MUMMY"?

  • Nick

    11/16/2010 8:05:26 AM

    HEY! What about the longslide 1911 in TERMINATOR????! Can't believe you forgot that one... and Quigley's rifle w/ long rear tang sight in Quigley Down Under....??! Wow...

  • Ray

    11/13/2010 8:44:30 AM

    You have to include Robocops Beretta 93. Who didn't that that gun was cool.

  • Justin Turner

    11/12/2010 7:47:44 PM

    Nice Collection, But you left out the 45-110 Shiloh Sharps 1874 Breech Loader