M [to JAMES BOND] Take off your jacket. [BOND removes his dinner jacket to reveal a shoulder holster] Give me your gun. [BOND hands M his pistol] Yes, I thought so. This damn Beretta again.

Boothroyd, to 007, in Dr. No And so James Bond reluctantly retires his Beretta ... in both the original novel and the movie. Ian Fleming had Bond’s original Beretta catch in his holster in From Russia ...