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Coolest Gun Movies

May 24, 2013

Firearm enthusiasts are quick to point out the inaccuracies in Hollywood films featuring firearms. Can you blame us? Some of these movies, though, have affected our next gun purchase or made us think about situations for which we should be prepared. Many of these movies also take us back to simpler times, when dreaming of saving the day got us through that oh-so boring class.

Red Dawn	The Terminator	The Alamo	Die Hard
The Godfather	Zombieland	The Matrix	The Delta Force
The Road Warrior	Tremors

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Ben Starr wrote:
June 18, 2013

Got to be Dirty Harry movies!!

Ron Smith wrote:
May 26, 2013

Don't forget "Shooter" Love the .50 cal. Barrett.

Steve-O wrote:
May 24, 2013

No Dirty Harry? "This is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun int he world." And no Pulp Fiction? "We should have shotguns for this kind of deal!" And "Oh, man, I shot Marvin in the face!"

Joe Murray wrote:
May 23, 2013

CORRECTION: John Wayne often complained the film was 'un-American.'

Chris wrote:
May 23, 2013

Wasn't "Predator" the first time we'd ever seen a mini-gun being carried, not mounted on a tripod or mounted to the side of a helicopter?

Chris wrote:
May 23, 2013

Oooh, and the original La Femme Nikita!

Chris wrote:
May 23, 2013

What about RoboCop?

Joe Murray wrote:
May 23, 2013

Concerning 'High Noon' ... This film was intended as an allegory in Hollywood for the failure of Hollywood people to stand up to the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Sen. Joseph McCarthy Red-baiting era, according to IMDb.com, Internet Movie Database, and that John Wayne often complained that it was 'in-American.' Also, IMDb says it was Bill Clinton's favorite movie and that he watched it 17 times during his two terms as president.

Sejrec56 wrote:
May 22, 2013

How about he movie with Michael Douglas? ' Falling Down' the guns he gets from gangland,

tomd wrote:
May 21, 2013

Mel Gibson used the Beretta 92 in Lethal Weapon before Bruce Willis in Die Hard, so skip the Road Warrior (its a car movie more than a gun movie, anyway!!!) and replace it with the Lethal Weapon series.....

Jack wrote:
May 21, 2013

I liked the one (I can't remember the name) where the gun owner jammed the barrel up his rear and pulled the trigger by mistake. The result was fantastic.

Dkdent wrote:
May 21, 2013

Any Tom Selleck western and the Ghost and the Darkness

Your NameKenny Johnson wrote:
May 21, 2013

Gary cooper in Sargent York Using the 1903 Springfeild In 30-06 cal

Alex wrote:
May 21, 2013

The .44 AutoMag from Sudden Impact

D. King wrote:
May 21, 2013

The Professional's Beretta 92FS, except I bought an INOX one and had the compensator, slide, and skeleton hammer done in titanium Cerakote.

beagle wrote:
May 21, 2013

Gotta be "Rough Riders" and " Open Range"

Chad wrote:
May 20, 2013

Commando!! Love the scene where he breaks into the gun store. Fills his duffel bag with tons of guns.

Frederick Neal wrote:
May 20, 2013

The Outlaw Josey Wales,The Good,TheBad, and the Ugly! Any western with Clint Eastwood for that matter! Joe Kidd the shot from the opposite side of the Canyon!

Bill James wrote:
May 20, 2013

There are so many really wonderful films that feature firearms from early history to the SiFi versions of the future. If it shoots a projectile or a light ray ... I'd probably enjoy handling and certainly firing it. Movies have made guns magical devices to experience...but safety first and too often safety is not practiced by naive actors who leave their fingers on triggers in not action sequences. That sets a bad example for the untrained that get guns in their hands regard- less of their age. Film makers need more trained experts to correct those bad examples before they end up in the film in the first place or in the final cut.

Chris Y. wrote:
May 20, 2013

Saving Private Ryan and Blackhawk Down.

Allen Hawthorne wrote:
May 20, 2013

Jimmy Stewart in 'Carbine Williams' 1952 - not historically accurate but entertaining

Calvin reeves wrote:
May 20, 2013

Battleship it has everything from a m4a2 to a m134 mini gun to a Vulcan cannon and my favorite the 16''/50cal mark7 naval gun. Now that's a gun!

adrian wrote:
May 20, 2013

what? no "the way of the gun" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202677/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Way_of_the_gun

gunnut1 wrote:
May 20, 2013

The Wild Geese. Lots of FALS and other really odd guns. Dogs of War.

Jonathan wrote:
May 20, 2013

I was hoping Tremors would make the list! Everyone likes to make fun of Burt but if it weren't for him, the Graboids would've killed everybody. Something to be said about prepping!!

matt wrote:
May 20, 2013

What about Blackhawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, Act of Valor, The Thin Red Line, Tears of the Sun, Dirty Harry, Heartbreak Ridge, etc. Lord have mercy i could go on for days

Josiah hunt wrote:
May 20, 2013

100[%] agreement with all the 'DIRTY HARRY' comments!! .44 mag blows them all out!!!

NativeAmerican wrote:
May 20, 2013

Heat is a definite. The Patriot, love when the boys have to keep up with their Dad, and do. But definitely loved the first look at the gun room in Tremors, was wanting that room full of awesome.

Joe wrote:
May 20, 2013

Good list and really good suggestions. I'd add Heat but also COLLATERAL. whether you are a Tom Cruise fan or not, that scene in the alley was incredible and not many actors could've pulled it off. Michael Mann at the helm certainly helped.

Jared wrote:
May 20, 2013

HEAT!!!! Cops & Robbers, can't get much better than this.

karl wrote:
May 20, 2013

Mad Max's car is not V-8 Pursuit Charger, but a Ford Falcon XB "Interceptor".

Joe S wrote:
May 20, 2013

"Wildey will catch him"...one of the Charles Bronson Death wish movies

chip gunter wrote:
May 20, 2013

i am a fan of of the mini gun ventura used in predator...

Joe SC wrote:
May 20, 2013

I cannot believe you left Quigley Down Under. The rifle was as big a star as Tom Selleck and it has the best ending Every!!"I Said I didn't have much use for it, I never said I didn't know how to use it!

Glenn Thibodeaux wrote:
May 20, 2013

What about Dirty Harry???

Pete wrote:
May 20, 2013

I agree that Heat should be included. And though it's slapstick, I know a lot of people reading this list idolized "Tackleberry" from the Police Academy series.

Fred wrote:
May 20, 2013

Always wanted a Hawk MM1 grenade launcher as used in "The Dogs of War"

Gene wrote:
May 20, 2013

I liked the Finnish Jati submachinegun. The AKM's are actually Maddis from Eygt that were modified.

Boogerman wrote:
May 20, 2013

Walking Tall-baseball bat!

Ralph L. Bowers Jr. wrote:
May 20, 2013

Quigley's Sharps Rifle The Wild Bunch Death Wish Dirty Harry's 44 Magnum Full Metal Jacket We Were Soldiers So Many Movies and Guns. You should have made it a top 50 list at least !!!

dale wrote:
May 20, 2013

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

socalbowhunter wrote:
May 20, 2013

Yeah, and don't forget the Glock 7. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines here and it costs more than what you make in a month!

Cindy wrote:
May 20, 2013

I thought Quigley Down Under with that 1874 Sharps! Can't be beat as a movie or a gun!

Thommy wrote:
May 20, 2013

They were not the most popular actors of there time, this was a low budget, let them get some more exposure ( Patrick Swayze & younger) kind of film

Dan c wrote:
May 20, 2013

Enemy at the gates Mosin nagant

Chris wrote:
May 20, 2013

Shooter. Heat. Enemy at the Gates. Who's with me?

Art wrote:
May 20, 2013

Don't forget Death Wish III "My friend Wildey is coming"

Gary wrote:
May 19, 2013

What about Quigley Down Under? That 1874 Sharps was and still is one hell of gun!

Frank Borek wrote:
May 18, 2013

A "Pre-B" CZ-75 is briefly seen being used by a Soviet Paratrooper Officer at the start of the attack in Red Dawn. Also you forgot Zulu, and Rough Riders, with all those great, vintage rifles.

David Green wrote:
May 17, 2013

#1 Winchester 73 #2 The man who shot Liberty Valance. Both Jimmy Stewart!

Nick wrote:
May 17, 2013

Don Johnson still had the two best guns in Hollywood. (Miami Vice and Nash Bridges)

Dartssnake wrote:
May 17, 2013

El Dorado, John Wayne, James Caan, Robert Mitchum. 'Nuff said...

Dave wrote:
May 17, 2013

Would concur with the guys below--strike 'The Matrix' for 'Dirty Harry'--look what it did for .44 magnum sales-- and strike any of the 'Mad Max' movies for 'Heat'. If you feel Mel Gibson HAS to be on the gun list, include the first 'Lethal Weapon.'

Jason wrote:
May 17, 2013

FN FNC 80.....Heat....Al Pacino

Jase wrote:
May 17, 2013

Loved the 1892 Mare's Leg. Goes back to Steve McQueen's Wanted, Dead or Alive.

bikertrash wrote:
May 17, 2013

dirty harry,first blood,sniper,wild bunch,josey wales,unforgivin,The Last of the Mohicans

FatGunMan wrote:
May 17, 2013

You forgot Full Metal Jacket, Animal Mother Running while firing a M60 at the sniper.

Zermoid wrote:
May 17, 2013

The Road Warrior Possibly the birth of the prepper movement?

CH wrote:
May 17, 2013

I still want the "plasma rifle in the 40 watt range"

Bill Smith wrote:
May 17, 2013

I agree with Ian and would also add Ronin as a great gun movie.

AJ Mathias wrote:
May 17, 2013

It's not a Charger. He drives a 1973 XB GT Ford Falcon Coupe. Australian market only vehicle. http://www.madmaxmovies.com/mad-max-interceptor/

Joe Cha wrote:
May 17, 2013

Lord of War & Act of Valor are good ones.

John wrote:
May 17, 2013

What about "The Wild Bunch" and "The Wind and the Lion"?

bob bodron wrote:
May 17, 2013

Don't forget "The Wind and the Lion"

Raymond C. wrote:
May 17, 2013

I agree w/Ian. The omission of 'Heat' is equivalent of leaving a Glock off the editors list of carry guns. C'mon guys...

albert perez wrote:
May 16, 2013

Saved the best for last I see.

James Macklin wrote:
May 16, 2013

Reba short stroked the Model 70. Still it wasn't an anti-gun movie, as some are intended to be, to set the propaganda in thought.

Mark Wilson wrote:
May 16, 2013

You missed a major gun control factoid from Red Dawn... One of the invading commanders orders his men to go the local gun store to obtain information on gun purchases to facilitate identification of gun owners and confiscation.

Steve wrote:
May 16, 2013

Oops! I meant the model 29

Steve wrote:
May 16, 2013

What about Dirty Harry's S&W model 629?

Alan Thederahn wrote:
May 16, 2013

High Noon, You have a lawman standing for what's right, it's a western, and has epic of all guns the Colt Peacemaker

Ian wrote:
May 16, 2013

I'm surprised by the omission of Heat from this list. Certainly compared to most films there is a far greater degree of technical accuracy than is the norm, not to mention the shoot-out following the bank robbery is perhaps the first film to truly capture the sounds of an urban firefight. I'm a little disappointed in this list.

Cuban Pete wrote:
May 16, 2013

Winchester '73 starring Jimmy Stewart. Just an awesome gun movie.

Jack wrote:
May 15, 2013

No "last of the Mohicans" with Daniel Day Lewis?

Peter wrote:
May 10, 2013

The Road Warrior drove a blown 351 Australian Ford Falcon, not a charger. Still an interesting choice for a world without gasoline.