Nick Cage said so. Maybe it's just 226 clones...

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When I bought my P226 in the mid 90's, my brother, then in the 82nd airborne, told me it was the finest combat pistol ever made.

I was pleased to pass it on to my D-I-L.

Not forgetting that Para has an entire section called the Lair for posts such as this...

Yes, any knock off the original is gonna suck..can't fathom a Temu P-226, my first issue.

^It was about the laugh, not the movie itself. Also why I didn't put it in the Pistol section.

I've seen Lord of War, but wasn't inviting other quotes from the movie.

Once upon a time, I bought a couple of P226 knockoffs from different manufacturers. One was from Zastava. I forget the other.

Never fired either.

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Originally posted by kkina:
^It was about the laugh, not the movie itself. Also why I didn't put it in the Pistol section.

I've seen Lord of War, but wasn't inviting other quotes from the movie.

That's not from 2005's Lord of War... It's from 2019's A Score to Settle, one of many low budget/direct-to-video films Nicholas Cage resorted to doing during the late 2000s and 2010s as his debt ballooned and his career slumped. (Though he's had a bit of a comeback in the past few years.)

At one point he was ~$6M in debt, partly due to his spending outstripping his income, and partly due to him losing his shirt in real estate investments during the 2008 market crash. And so for over a decade he was taking any role offered to him just for the paycheck, eventually clawing himself out of debt by 2022 without having to resort to bankruptcy.

^OK, thanks. The thumbnail said Lord of War, and it was a long time since I saw it.

LOL

I saw the clip and thought: "Damn, I didn't realize ol' Nick was looking so old back then, I need to watch LoW again!"

Now I need to watch both movies.

Whelp. There goes this afternoon...

IRL, how many 226 clones or copies are actually out there? The one made by Zastava in Serbia and sold as a __-99 by different importers has been around for over 30 years, and is much more Walther P-88.

There's also the Slovenian Rex Zero One, a few Chinese P226 clones like the Norinco NP22 family and the SDM XM9, the Iranian KOAM, and a Russian clone made by Techcrim (unknown designation).

As well as the Israeli Golan and the South African TZ99, which are licensed copies of the Zastava CZ99 you mentioned, if you count those too.

So... quite a few.

Granted, the Iranian and Russian ones wouldn't be around much, and the Rexs are available but fairly new, but the Chinese and Serbian clones are fairly widespread. (Outside of the US at least, in the case of the Chinese ones, due to our longstanding Chinese firearm ban.)

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Now I need to watch both movies.

Not necessarily. As I mentioned, Nic Cage made a lot of low budget crap from 2008ish-2022ish. Much of it not worth the wasted time.

For this one, review average on IMDB currently stands at 4.8/10, and Rotten Tomatoes has it at 19%.

Well, dang. Then I'll watch LoW and Raising Arizona.

Regarding the "clones".

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
and the Rexs are available but fairly new

A few (4-5?) years old, and now rebranded as the Steyr AT D. The original AREX versions do seem to have their staunch fans online.

"Nickle Plated Sissy Pistols"

According to old Mr. Jackson in that one movie.

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Originally posted by Jester814:
"Nickle Plated Sissy Pistols"

According to old Mr. Jackson in that one movie.

That was Tommy Lee Jones in US Marshals (not Mr. Jackson). And he was referring to Robert Downey Junior's Taurus PT945 (not a Sig P226 or clone).

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Originally posted by Fenris:
Once upon a time, I bought a couple of P226 knockoffs from different manufacturers. One was from Zastava. I forget the other.

Never fired either.

The Zastava 99 was an excellent pistol, at least shooting it accurately was easy. Had great ergonomics.

I had a Taurus 945 I quite liked.