Movie Firearms Database

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Want to know what firearms Clint Eastwood used in High Plains Drifter? You can look it up: guns used in High Plains Drifter.¹

Internet Movie Firearms Database

The Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDb) is an online database of firearms used or featured in films, television shows, video games, and anime. It includes articles relating to actors, and some characters, such as James Bond, listing the particular firearms they have been associated with in their movies.²

Guns in Films

The Alec Baldwin case has guns in movies in the news. Baldwin faces criminal charges in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie "Rust." Baldwin was the film's lead actor and a producer. He was holding the prop gun that went off during a rehearsal. The bullet killed Hutchins and wounded the director, and the production's armorer was also charged.³

In the context of an increasing number of high-profile mass shootings in the United States, “Gun Violence Trends in Movies” examines the potential source of increased aggression in youth. The authors note that previous studies of the “weapons effect” showed that the presence of guns could increase aggression. This article explores the trends in the presence of gun violence in movies.⁴

There are weapons used by 15,211 actors in the Internet Movie Firearms Database. Here are a few:

• Barbara Stanwick used a Smith & Wesson .32 Hand Ejector Third Model in Double Indemnity.

• Matthew McConaughey uses a SIG-Sauer P226 as Detective Rustin Cohle in True Detective.

• Robert Mitchum uses a Colt Model 1903/1908 in The Big Sleep

  

  Robert Mitchum

Violent Cinema Analysis has a long History

Barranco, Raymond E., Nicole E. Rader, and Anna Smith. “Violence at the Box Office: Considering Ratings, Ticket Sales, and Content of Movies.” Communication Research 44, no. 1 (2017): 77–95.

Prince, Stephen. Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies. 1st ed. Austin, Tex: University of Texas Press, 1998.

Schechter, Harold. Savage Pastimes: a Cultural History of Violent Entertainment. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

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2. Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games (imfdb.org). It is similar in function (although unaffiliated) to the Internet Movie Database for the entertainment industry.

3. Mandalit del Barco, Alec Baldwin charged in 'Rust' shooting. NPR. January 19, 2023.

4. Dillon, Kelly P, and Brad J Bushman. “Effects of Exposure to Gun Violence in Movies on Children’s Interest in Real Guns.” JAMA Pediatrics 171, no. 11 (2017): 1057–62. See also Bushman, B.J, P.E Jamieson, I Weitz, and D Romer. “Gun Violence Trends in Movies.” Pediatrics (Evanston) 132, no. 6 (2013): 1014–18.