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Tomorrow Never Dies marked the first appearance of the Walther P99 as Bond's pistol. It replaced the Walther PPK that the character had carried in every Eon Bond film since Dr. No in 1962, with the exception of Moonraker in which Bond was not seen with a pistol. Walther wanted to debut its new firearm in a Bond film, which had been one of its ...
Walther P99 with the slide locked back displaying its vertical barrel tilt. The Walther P99 is a short recoil-operated locked breech semi-automatic pistol that uses a modified Browning cam-lock system adapted from the Hi-Power pistol. The P99 has a glassfiber-reinforced polymer frame and steel slide assembly.
A PPK carried by Princess Anne's personal police officer James Beaton infamously jammed during a kidnapping attempt on the princess and her husband. [19] The fictional secret agent James Bond uses a Walther PPK in many of the novels and films: Ian Fleming's choice of Bond's weapon directly influenced the popularity and notoriety of the PPK.
Guns. The first Bond film, Dr. No, saw M ordering Bond to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK, [79] which the film Bond used in eighteen films. [80] From Tomorrow Never Dies until Casino Royale, Bond's main weapon was the Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol, and starting in Quantum of Solace, Bond returned to using the PPK. [80]
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Although Bond is using his six-bullet .380 Walther PPK pistol while Scaramanga uses the golden gun, Scaramanga states that "[He] only need[s] one"—Bond's superior number of bullets being offset by Scaramanga's advantages of fighting on his own ground.
No, saw M ordering Bond to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK, [182] which Bond used in eighteen films. [183] In Tomorrow Never Dies and the two subsequent films, Bond's main weapon was the Walther P99 semi-automatic pistol. [183]
Sinclair referred to the gun – made famous by Sean Connery in the 007 film Dr No – as a ‘James Bond ting’.