I should, probably, have known better than pass on criticism of 007’s pistol grip. Here’s one former marine:

“I spent six years in the Marine Corps as an infantry officer. At that time, an officer’s side arm was the M1911A1 45 cal. pistol (it’s now a 9 mm.). We were all taught to fire the pistol and qualified with it annually. We were taught to rest the butt of the pistol in the palm of the left hand and hold the grip with the right; it was a two-handed grip and altho’ I never heard the term “cup and saucer”, no one outside the movies and your correspondent’s fantasy world fires a pistol with one hand.”

Arguing with the Marines is not, I believe, a prudent policy. And so I shan’t.

Then there was this comment from another correspondent:

“Then the best combat pistoleros in the world, IPSC shooters

, apparently “shoot like a bunch of

little girls,” eh? Including the Navy Seals, Marine Recon, Army Special Forces, etc.,

and even the father of American combat pistol instruction, Colonel

Jeff Cooper.”

And I’m not arguing with those guys either, although there was this from another e-mail:

“Well…in Casino Royale, he used the Beretta… a gun fit for a “lady’s hand bag,” as Major Boothroyd put it.”

Topic closed, I think, before K-Lo tears the keyboard from my cold dead hand.