{"id":81257,"date":"2017-10-25T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=81257"},"modified":"2017-10-25T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:27:46","slug":"357-magnum-research-desert-eagle-history-movies-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/357-magnum-research-desert-eagle-history-movies-action\/","title":{"rendered":"A .357 Magnum Research Desert Eagle \u2014 History, Movies & Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe fact that you\u2019ve got \u2018Replica\u2019 written down the sides of your guns\u2026and the fact that I\u2019ve got \u2018Desert Eagle point five O\u2019 written down the side of mine\u2026 should precipitate a shrinking of your presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus uttered Bullet-Tooth Tony in the Guy Ritchie movie Snatch<\/em>, generating some of the coolest gun-related dialogue ever put to celluloid. If you haven\u2019t yet seen the movie then stop what you\u2019re doing and surf on over to Amazon.com. They will rent it to you for $3.99.\u00a0 It will change your life.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to its broad cinematic exposure in movies, TV, and video games, the Magnum Research Desert Eagle is one of the most recognizable firearms in the world.<\/p><\/div>\n

Origin Story<\/h2>\n

The Desert Eagle is a unique and iconic firearm. Though the Deagle, as most die-hard fans refer to the gun, has long been associated with the nation of Israel, naturally a gun this manly was originally born in America. The U.S. patent application for this gas-operated pistol was approved in January of 1983 under the auspices of Magnum Research Inc. The gun earned a second patent in December of 1985. After Israel Military Industries refined the design the gun went into volume production.\"A<\/p>\n

IMI built the gun until 1995 when MRI shifted production to Saco Defense in Saco, Maine. In 1998 MRI returned manufacturing back to IMI, now reorganized as Israel Weapon Industries. Since 2009, MRI has produced the Desert Eagle in the United States at its facility in Pillager, Minnesota. If ever there was a better town in which to produce guns than Pillager, Minnesota, I have yet to hear of it. Pillager just looks cool stamped on the side of the piece. Kahr Arms<\/a> purchased Magnum Research in 2010 and they produce the Desert Eagle to this day.<\/p>\n

I am pretty old, and I recall when the Desert Eagle first hit the streets. The first commercial chambering was .357 Magnum followed soon thereafter by .44 Magnum. Interestingly, the gun was actually marketed for military use back in the day. The angle was that this was an incredibly robust gas-operated handgun that offered unprecedented firepower in a handheld package. Nowadays we realize that there really isn\u2019t much practical military application for packing a 4-pound semiautomatic .44 Magnum pistol, but these were the heady days of Dirty Harry so nobody was really thinking clearly.<\/p>\n

SPECS<\/h2>\n