Cool and interesting. Thank you!

>("delivery like a brick through
>a plate glass window," as Major Boothroyd says in the 1962 film
>version of Doctor No).

As an aside(lots of asides here), that particular swap IS a step down. The talk-y parts of the scene are straight from the book, but the gun-y parts aren't, and so Bond swaps a 9mm Short/.380 ACP Beretta M1934 for a 7.65/.32 Walther. In the book, the makes are the same, but the Beretta is a .25 model, the M418.

>I should note at this point that the Type 14 Nambu is not the
>Nambu pistol that is famously so unsafely designed that it will
>occasionally shoot its owner out of pure spite. That's the Type 94.
>(Seriously, it has an external trigger mechanism, so you can fire it
>by pressing a spot on the side of the gun that has nothing evident to
>do with the trigger. This would occasionally happen to, for instance,
>airmen or tank crewmen who were daft enough to take the flagrant and
>provocative action of loading it, holstering it, and then sitting
>down.)

Seriously? Oooo-kay. Ow. Jeez Louise!

Well, as noted above, cool and interesting!

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