From the 1903 film "The Great Train Robbery" to "Lethal Weapon 4," guns have provided Hollywood easy visceral thrills and box-office sales. On the surface, the movie business and the gun business would seem to have a symbiotic relationship. But nowhere is the gun so revered as in Hollywood. Guns, of course, pervade American popular culture, from prime-time television to cartoons to popular songs that extol the virtues of Glocks, Uzis and Desert Eagles. No" and TV series like "Gunsmoke" - but Eastwood brought home a lesson that the makers of any product, from Reese's Pieces to Coca-Cola, know: Get your product in a movie and receive millions of dollars' worth of free advertising.
Gun brands had gotten plugs from Hollywood before "Dirty Harry" - in movies like "Dr.
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