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Re:The Gun Industry's Lucrative Relationship with Hollywood by icebraining on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:54AM (#13200349)
There are many, many films and TV shows starring the Desert Eagle, though: http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Desert_Eagle

Besides, there's a third possibility: that the Desert Eagle is simply a "cooler" weapon than the M&P, and hence chosen by gun ranges users and by film and video game producers for the same reason.

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Re:The Gun Industry's Lucrative Relationship with Hollywood by pps43 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @11:24AM (#13201217)
That's partly because M&P hasn't been around that long. Among recent movies (released after 2005 when M&P was created), imfdb lists 10 with DE and 16 with M&P.

TV is 11 DE vs. 23 M&P, and video games 9 DE to 1 M&P.

So if you think that movies and TV shape demand, you would expect to see more demand for M&P at the ranges.

In reality the distribution of guns people ask for at the ranges is a lot closer to what's in video games than in movies/TV.

There are many "cool" guns, but if they're not in video games, nobody cares.

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