By now, regular readers of the gunblogosphere should be more than familiar with just how whacky-assed some people (*cough*) can get with their firearms and those firearms’ accessories, as evinced by the… interesting… contraption photographed to the right. No one really understands the mentality that would convince a person to perform those kinds of unnecessary perversions of a perfectly functional firearm (*ahem*), but I just found out yesterday that it is well past time for folks like that to step up their game:
That, dear friends, is a Smith and Wesson 629 with an extended (8+ inches?) barrel, a Surefire flashlight, and a Cooey/Sears Model 684 single-shot shotgun, recently featured in Red
In short, you are looking at the modern adaptation of the LeMat revolver, in all of its absurdly massive glory. I guess some ideas just never go out of fashion…
And yes. I want one. Without the flashlight, though… And a little more integrated could not hurt.
(Is anyone else bothered by the flashlight being on the left side of the firearm? With Malkovich being right-handed, the holster must be uncomfortable…)
(Image courtesy of IMFDB.com and Movie Armaments Group.)
h&k 45 or glock 30 for quality? anyone
I’ve been wondering if I could get something like that Cooey/Sears past BATFE in .410/.45…
It wouldn’t be good for much, but it would be better than the judge.
RED was such a good movie!
IMFDB is my new favorite movie website. I don’t know how many times I wished for something like it, and when I found it, it became a horrible addiction.
@ Andrew Sarchus: In that arrangement? Well, considering that it would have six chambers of actually-useful ammunition, and one of semi-dubious, I can at least see it beating the pants off the Judge
. Dunno about legality, though… I assume with a rifled barrel, the underslung shotty would pass muster, but I have no idea (I am not a lawyer, do things on your own risk, etc.).
@ Weer’d Beard: Indeed it was! Massive amounts of gunporn, skilled actors doing what they do best, and a decent story. What more could you ask for?
@ bluesun: Agreed. It is totally possible to lose yourself for hours in that thing… and then get massively frustrated at what is legal for the movies, but not for us.
You want to really lose yourself for hours clicking around, check out tvtropes.org (RED’s page, so spoilers abound).
Unlike wikipedia, they don’t take themselves seriously at all, so pages have hilarious names and hilarious examples, and the pages for specific books/shows/movies have pages tropes that show up.
It’s awesome, and you’ll hate me forever for wasting your time.
[...] Uhm, Ok then. [...]
Heh, yes, I have lost multiple weekends to that particular webpage… they seem masters of weaving relatively unrelated stories together in improbable and crazy fashions. Intentionally, at that.
TVTropes is a weaponized wiki…
No, that would be IMFDB
.
IMFDB is a wiki about weapons. TVTropes is pure timewasting, a weapon of mass distraction. There’s a difference…
Is anyone else bothered by the flashlight being on the left side of the firearm? With Malkovich being right-handed, the holster must be uncomfortable…
SOB holster, overhand draw.
Ok, I’m stretching.
Like I said – uncomfortable
.
I suppose I could see a dangly, under-shoulder holster, but even that would be awkward.