DC>  The earliest was a .25 with the grips removed and replaced with
DC>  friction tape. This is an unsuitable weapon for defence. Also,
DC>  the chamois leather holster was unsuitable for defence. When
DC>  told, Fleming misconstrued the advice, and had Bond use, if I
DC>  recall, a Walther PPK in a Berns-Martin Holster. Berns-Martin
DC>  Holsters are only for revolvers. Later, I think Bond did use a
DC>  revolver in some books.
The Barreta .25 would not be my first choice, but it's small. It
wouldn't show under a jacket. In fact, I find the Walther to be too
small. I wind up holding it with three fingers, including the one on
the trigger. I didn't buy one for this reason, among others.
Bond later used a S&W .38 and a .44 magnum also.
I'm enough of a gun nut to know that Berns-Martin makes holsters,
but not enough to know they only make them for revolvers.
DC>   >    It's easy to fall into the pit if the writer isn't familiar with 
the
DC>   >    subject and the reader is. If one is writing, it pays to do a 
little
DC>   >    research. To get caught on a technicality is one thing, but to put
DC>   >    cylinders on a Browning is like having your Pony car wearing shoes
DC>   >    instead of tires.        (8-}
DC>  No, it's a matter of forgetting whether you had a pony car or a
DC>  pony. For someone who doesn't know or care much about firearms,
DC>  it's an easy mistake to make, whether the character had a
DC>  revolver or an automatic, 100 pages back. (Usually the plot
DC>  doesn't hinge on the detail.) Thus, I think Christie did make the
DC>  mistake in the first of the Tommy and Tuppence novels (N or M?),
DC>  back at the beginning of her career, and later had Adriane Oliver
DC>  complain of people who notice things like that.
It's hard not to notice that the hero is suddenly putting a saddle
on the Mustang that he was driving just a few chapters before.
If I didn't notice, then I must be asleep. Either way, they lost the
reader, something no writer should do.       (8-}
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