Lack of Classic Guns

Yeah, exactly. And you don't see to many of those movies anymore, unless they're movies that take place in the past (like "No Country For Old Men"). I think a good example of the black synthetic vs wood is "Miami Vice". In Seasons 1 and 2, the Mossbergs that the Vice cops carried were wood, but toward the end of Season 2 and on, they became black synthetic. This was the start of that trend it would seem.