The 1972 Munich Olympics caused serious problems for West German police, as they realised that they needed to find a weapon which was more suitable for their needs. They called for a light, powerful and durable handgun which used the impressive 9mm cartridge. Three companies offered their designs, and by 1979, the P7 had been born. The all-steel design looks uncompromisingly handsome, and yet the P7 has been used in relatively few films. Alan Rickman's villainous character Hans Gruber in Die Hard is probably the most well-known usage of the P7, and at the climax of the film he uses it to threaten McClane into submission. The 9mm cartridge is used for this handgun - check out the link!!

In the first Die Hard film, German terrorists led by Hans Gruber take hostages at Nakatomi Plaza, but New York detective John McClane hides and picks them off one by one, complicating their plan to rob the vault. In Die Hard 2, McClane faces off against Colonel Stuart, who takes over Washington Airport with mercenaries to free a captured dictator. Die Hard with a Vengeance finds McClane down on his luck but forced into a deadly game by a terrorist named Simon, who has planted explosives around New York. McClane races to stop Simon once his real identity is revealed. In Live Free or Die Hard, McClane teams up with hacker Matt Farrell to stop cyber-criminals from attacking U.S. infrastructure, while villain Thomas Gabriel sends assassins after them.