why so many 9mm guns in movies/tv

[Krel]

Originally Posted by MT2008

Hmmm, I've definitely seen the Browning HP in plenty of 70s movies - "McQ", "Serpico", "The French Connection II", etc. Don't think I've ever seen the VP70 in anything made before the 80s, though...

Also, what do you mean that the P7 was the "big 9mm" of the 80s and early to mid 90s? Wouldn't that title be much more appropriate if given to the Beretta 92F?

I remember it in "McQ", the Duke bought it in the gunshop where he borrowed the Ingram. You would have thought he would have gone for a Colt Government model. I unfortunately haven't seen "Serpico", or any of the French Connection movies.

In the 80's the P7 was the flavor of the day, and so was in a lot of tv shows and movies usually used by the villain, but there were a few shows that didn't make it where the hero used one. I saw the VP70s in shows during the late 70s, like "A Man Called Sloane", but the P9S was more popular. It really stood out to me in "Endangered Species".

I really don't remember the Beretta being as prominent as the P7. But that could be that, as a south paw the P7 interested me very much. I could just never afford one.

I read an article in the 90s that said that most of the Berettas that you saw in movies and tv show were actually Taurus PT92s. Robert Urich's Beretta in Spenser: For Hire was a Taurus with Beretta grips on it.

David.