Tomorrow Never Dies
At the start of Dr. No James Bond is armed with a Beretta 418, but he ends up with a Walther PPK as his gun of choice. That’s the same gun he would go on to use through every movie until the end of Tomorrow Never Dies, at which point he gets a Walther P99. The PPK was first used by German police officers in 1931. For a 75th anniversary of the gun, Smith & Wesson, which now makes Walther guns, issued a version with a gold-plated logo and in a press release called the gun “the pistol that helped make James Bond famous.” The P99, Bond’s newer gun, has a longer barrel and a larger magazine capacity than the PPK. In the Skyfall trailer, we see Bond going back to his roots when Q presents him with a PPK — but one that’s been specially matched to his palm print so that nobody else can use it.