I know there are a lot of gun enthusiasts on here and when I ran across this, I thought I'd share...
How a fan letter changed James Bond's preferred pistol from a "ladies gun" to the Walther PPK.
Way back in 1964, the BBC aired a short film about Geoffrey Boothroyd, the pistol expert whose letter to James Bond franchise author Ian Fleming forever changed the super spy’s preferred weaponry and resulted in him being immortalized in the series as Bond’s chief weapons expert, Q.
The short film was also included on the 2007 Dr. No DVD, but it’s now available on the BBC Archives website, too. In a segment from the film that popped up on YouTube (embedded below), 1960s-era Sean Connery introduces Boothroyd, and then the pistol expert offers up a fascinating tour of the technology behind James Bond’s guns.
