TGIF Harless friends and fans! Here is our third weekly firearm film fact. Have a film you want to know more about? Hit us up!
Dirty Harry (1971)
Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan
Smith and Wesson Model 29 - .44 Mag.
This Smith and Wesson Model 29 was used by Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry and Magnum Force (1972). It was a gift from Eastwood and Warner Brothers to film writer / director John Milius, who wrote significant parts of Dirty Harry and is credited with writing the screen play for Magnum Force. The pistol received notoriety as being the "most powerful handgun in the world" and prompted civilian Model 29 purchases to skyrocket following the film's success.
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TGI Friday the 13th Harless friends and fans! In honor of paraskevidekatriaphobia, we are featuring the firearms of the horror flick series featuring our beloved hockey-masked friend Michael! In Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, there was a large assortment of firearms: The Beretta 92F, the Smith & Wesson Model 60, the LAR Grizzly Win Mag, the Ruger Super Blackhawk, the Smith & Wesson 459, the Remington 870, the Spanish Zabala, M16A1, and the Browning M1919A4! Damn!
The fear of Friday the 13th is called friggatriskaidekaphobia (also paraskevidekatriaphobia), from the Norse God Frigg, the goddess of wisdom after whom Friday is named, and there is quite a bit of evidence that people adhere to it. Scandinavians believed 13 signified bad luck because their 13th mythological demigod Loki was an evil one who brought great misfortune upon humans.
Others believe it’s originates in the fourteenth century when 1307, when on a Friday the 13th, the French king gave the orders to arrest hundreds of Knights Templar.
Do you possess a fear of Friday the 13th?
