A complete list of the guns of James Bond from Ian Fleming’s books.
The table below provides a list of all James Bond’s guns that appear in Ian Fleming’s books.
Fleming made a number of errors with regard to the guns. The descriptions in the list are as described in the books with such errors marked with an asterisk.
| Book | Gun |
|---|---|
| Casino Royale (1953) | .25 Beretta in a chamois leather shoulder holster
Bond sleeps with a .38 Colt Police Positive with a sawn barrel under his pillow In his Bentley he has a .45 long-barrelled Colt Army Special* in a concealed holster under the dash |
| Live and Let Die (1954) | .25 Beretta
.38 Colt Detective Special with a sawn barrel. Bond finds this gun on Tee-Hee as he is lying dead or dying |
| Moonraker (1955) | .25 Beretta
Bond shoots a Colt Detective Special at the Secret Service firing range Long-barrelled .45 Colt Army Special* in car |
| Diamonds Are Forever (1956) | .25 Beretta |
| From Russia, with Love (1957) | .25 Beretta
Bond shoots Nash with his own electrically operated .25 gun hidden in War and Peace |
| Doctor No (1958) | Bond is forced to change to a 7.65mm Walther PPK carried in a Berns-Martin triple draw holster* by the armourer
He also carries a .38 Smith & Wesson Centennial Airweight, which he takes with him to Crab Key After surviving the obstacle course Bond arms himself with a .38 “regular model” Smith & Wesson from one of Dr No’s men He also picks up a Remington* carbine from a gun-rack prior to stealing the “dragon” marsh buggy |
| Goldfinger (1959) | Bond removes his Walther PPK and Berns-Martin holster hidden inside a hollowed out book: The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature
In the Aston Martin DB Mark III is a long-barrelled Colt .45 hidden in a secret compartment under the driver’s seat After killing Goldfinger, Bond picks up his Colt .25 automatic |
| For Your Eyes Only (1960) | In From a View to a Kill Bond uses a long-barrelled Colt .45 in France
For Your Eyes Only sees Bond carrying a Savage 99F with scope across the border from Canada into Vermont as well as his PPK in the Berns-Martin holster* In Italy during the events of Risico Bond uses his Walther PPK |
| Thunderball (1961) | Bond shoots a hammerhead shark with his Walther PPK after discovering the hijacked plane |
| The Spy Who Loved Me (1962) | Bond hands Viv his Smith & Wesson Police Positive* |
| On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963) | Bond carries his Walther PPK in a soft leather holster attached to his waist |
| You Only Live Twice (1964) | Temporarily assigned the number 7777 for a diplomatic mission, Bond heads for Japan unarmed |
| The Man With the Golden Gun (1965) | Bond tries to kill M using a cyanide gun
In Jamaica Bond carries his trusty Walther PPK on a holster inside his waistband Bond uses Scaramanga’s gold-plated, long-barrelled, single-action Colt .45 to shoot a plastic pineapple attached to the head of a singer |
| Octopussy & The Living Daylights (1966) | In The Living Daylights Bond uses a .308-calibre Winchester target rifle built for competition shooting fitted with a sniperscope on a mission in West Berlin |
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