Smith & Wesson 659

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Tracing its lineage back through to the Model 39, the 659 is a Stainless Steel Variant of the Model 59 - with a high capacity double stack 9mm magazine. Whilst this model is now out of production and has been superseded by more recent evolutions, it earns its place here by virtue of being the standard issue firearm to all of the Reservoir Dogs heist crew. Ever listen to K-Billy's "Super Sounds of the Seventies" weekend? K.B.I.L.L.Y.

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9mm

Just about the most prevalent cartridge in the world today, surely everyone has heard of a 9mm - be it in the battlefield as the standard NATO handgun cartridge or the mean streets of your local ghetto, the 9mm Luger/Parabellum is absolutely everywhere. Introduced in 1902 the 9mm has become accepted world-wide as the de facto handgun round, boosted in the 80's with the US Army's adoption of the M9 (essentially a Beretta 92F), which uses these 9x19mm cartridges. Beloved of rappers, cops, robbers and just about every armed force...

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Reservoir Dogs

A group of specialist criminals work together on the ultimate heist. Its failure proves that one of them must be an undercover policeman. Mr Blonde, Mr Blue, Mr Brown, Mr Orange, Mr Pink, Mr White, Joe Cabot and Eddie... eight men, all out to get each other. But who was the informant, and who caused the diamond heist to fail? When some of them leave on the trail of the diamonds, desperate to get them back, Mr Blonde is killed. Joe blames Mr Orange, but Mr Orange claims Mr Blonde...