Editing James Bond (section)

=== Guns ===
For the first five novels, Fleming armed Bond with a [[Beretta 418]]{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=265}} until he received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, [[Geoffrey Boothroyd]], criticising Fleming's choice of firearm for Bond,{{sfn|Chancellor|2005|p=160}} calling it "a lady's gun—and not a very nice lady at that!"<ref>{{cite news|title=Bond's unsung heroes: Geoffrey Boothroyd, the real Q|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/5320024/Bonds-unsung-heroes-Geoffrey-Boothroyd-the-real-Q.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/5320024/Bonds-unsung-heroes-Geoffrey-Boothroyd-the-real-Q.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 November 2011|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=21 May 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Boothroyd suggested that Bond should swap his [[Beretta]] for a [[.32 ACP|7.65mm]] [[Walther PP#PPK|Walther PPK]] and this exchange of arms made it to ''Dr. No''.{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=132}} Boothroyd also gave Fleming advice on the [[Berns-Martin]] triple draw shoulder holster and a number of the weapons used by [[SMERSH]] and other villains.{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=15}} In thanks, Fleming gave the MI6 Armourer in his novels the name [[Q (James Bond)|Major Boothroyd]] and, in ''Dr. No'', M, the [[Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service]], introduces him to Bond as "the greatest small-arms expert in the world".{{sfn|Macintyre|2008|p=132}} Bond also used a variety of [[rifle]]s, including the [[Savage Model 99]] in "For Your Eyes Only" and a Winchester .308 target rifle in "The Living Daylights".{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=265}} Other handguns used by Bond in the Fleming books included the [[Colt Detective Special]] and a long-barrelled [[Colt Single Action Army|Colt .45 Army Special]].{{sfn|Benson|1988|p=265}}

The first Bond film, ''Dr. No'', saw M ([[Bernard Lee]]) ordering Bond (Sean Connery) to leave his Beretta behind and take up the Walther PPK,{{sfn|Black|2005|p=94}} which Bond used in eighteen films.{{sfn|Cork|Stutz|2007|p=265}} In ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' and the two subsequent films, Bond's main weapon was the [[Walther P99]] [[semi-automatic pistol]].{{sfn|Cork|Stutz|2007|p=265}}