[C19fan]

“crafting guns for everyone from Napoleon and Winston Churchill to Ernest Hemingway and James Bond.”

According to the movies Q made Bond get rid of the Beretta, paraphrasing more suited for a woman's purse, for the Walther.

[Rockpile]

Bond should not be allowed to have guns. He loses at least one in every movie not to mention all the wrecked vehicles.

[slumber1]

According to the movies Q made Bond get rid of the Beretta, paraphrasing more suited for a woman's purse, for the Walther.

Bond author Ian Fleming knew spycraft having worked for British Intelligence during WWII but he didn't know much about guns. In the first few Bond stories he had the secret agent carrying a .22 caliber Beretta. One of his readers wrote and told him the .22 was more of a womans pistol, hence Fleming upgraded Bonds firepower to the Walther.