>>64142853
Wut?
The whole point is Bond isn't a spy or extraterritorial policing agent. He's an assassin whose schtick is he's so obviously an assassin who stinks of cop he must really be a mildly self-delusional otherwise harmless spy or cop.
Thus in 'Spy Who Loved Me' he tells the mafiosi he's police. He isn't police. He has already decided they will never see another sunset. In 'Goldfinger' he says he's an agent. He isn't there to fine him and collect back taxes. He isn't on missions to put handcuffs on bad guys or steal the secret plans. He's there to kill someone and GTFO. He stops the nuclear bomb or saves Fort Knox or rescues the girl and the kid's kitty cat stuck in the tree on the side, that's swell.--but he's there to kill.
The gun is thus only so relevant. He'll beat your brains out with it if he has to. M may say go here or there and look around and not get into trouble, but Bond knows what his real mission is. His mission is make somebody completely, undeniably, and certifiably dead.
