Every Gun in "Dr. No" is Wrong
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Today Caleb Daniels, author of "Licensed Troubleshooter", joins me to talk about the guns shown in Dr. No, the very first James Bond film. Somehow, the film magazines to get every single gun detail wrong - sometimes with nested errors within errors. Even Bond's iconic Walther PPK never actually appears in the film! And yet, it remains a great film...so what were all the gun nerd quibbles with it?
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