How a Mercenary Movie Invented a New Type of Weapon

[Graham1973]

An article I stumbled across featuring a rare case of fiction inspiring real world firearms development....

It is hard to overestimate just how much movies shape modern gun culture. Like many, I attribute my fascination with firearms to Hollywood movies. But I am only aware of one instance when a movie gun accidentally created a new type of armament.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/how-a-mercenary-movie-invented-a-new-type-of-weapon-44828626