SIG Sauer P220R vs Beretta 92FS

[Yournamehere]

For continuity's sake he should have kept the Beretta. He is a movie character and in most cases they tend to keep their firearm as it's part of who they are (Harry Calahans .44 Magnum, anyone?)

Now from a technical or realistic standpoint, the Beretta still wins. Bruce Willis is left handed, which makes John McClane left handed, and the SIG series are pretty much right handed guns, whereas the Beretta is a lot more ambi freindly. The Beretta also holds a lot more shots, and what's interesting is that if you watch all the Die hard movies, he doesn't reload often in the early ones (they are either "off screen" or he has a magical Beretta mag that never runs out of bullets, or he just rarely expended all 16 shots). Whether or not this is a difference in the times where it was just movie magic or deliberate, we will never know but I'll assume overall it was just because he had 16 shots and frequently had reloads off screen.

Either way, within the first few minutes of the fourth film, he ends up using his P220R and reloading several times in Justin Long's apartment, all of which are incredibly difficult being he is under fire, and left handed. Having 8 or 9 shots doesn't help either as it makes these difficult reloads more frequent.

Overall the Beretta is a better gun as it is better for left handed shooters and people who require lots of shots for suppressive fire or duty, two things John McClane, being a cop and an action movie icon, desperately needs.

[ManiacallyChallenged]

Well, reloading does look super cool.
When I first saw DH4, I didn't realize he was having trouble getting the empties out of his SIG. I thought it was some stylized reload.

[Yournamehere]

I just rewatched it and he really shakes the crap out of the gun to get the magazines out, but that could just be a shaky hand due to fear. I also counted his shots. His first magazine fired around 15 shots, his second fired the true 8 rounds, and his last one around 20. Guess the capacity thing is shot to shit, but then again my comments are based in the real world. I think they switched to the 220R because it looks more cutting edge and modern (thanks to the rail) and that was one of the major themes in the new Die Hard movie. All the same, for alefty cop the Beretta is still the better choice.

I also noticed that when he reloaded it looked like he pressed the magazine catch on the right side. Is it possible to switch the mag catch out or is there an aftermarket or custom option for this? I pretty much thought that SIG didn't do this.