Guns in the Movies - like this S&W Model 29
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Today we have not so much an examination of a specific firearms, but rather a look at how Clint Eastwood’s film portrayal of Dirty Harry Callahan drove a huge wave of popularity of the Smith & Wesson Model 29 - “the most powerful handgun in the world.”
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