In one episode of the old, cult-hit British TV show, “The Avengers,” the male character, Steed, faces off with a thuggish European counterpart. The latter snarls that the next time they meet, he will face Steed with “a well-oiled Beretta.” Steed, a clubby upper crust type who affects a bowler hat and walking stick, replies, “I prefer a Smith & Wesson, myself. Magnum.” Now, let’s set aside for a moment the incongruity of the suave, urbane Steed, a man of Continental tastes, preferring an American revolver to a fine European automatic. What the bad guy had right was the “well-oiled Beretta”
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