Trivia Questions. History of cartridges.?

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Which Walther pistol was used in the famous James Bond movies with Sean Connery? Who was the first to come up with "bottleneck cartridges" like the .32&.25NAA, .357Sig, etc. And what was the first semi-auto chambered in .22mag?
Bottleneck cartriges for pistols, sorry.
 
These are off the top of my head, I may be completely wrong on all counts.

Walther PPK
By bottleneck cartridges, do you mean pistol or rifle, or all combined?
Regardless, I think it's the Winchester 44-40, which has avery slight neck to it.

First 22 mag semi auto pistol. I want to say the AMT auto mag. Or was it the Grendel?
 
James Bond, Agent 007, was issued a 7.65 mm. Browning (.32 ACP) Walther "PPK" (Polizei Pistole Kurz) that was a 1931 shortened version of the 1929 "PP" in the 1958 novel "Dr. No", after using a Beretta .25 ACP pistol since "Casino Royale" the first "007" novel that debuted in America in 1953. "Dr. No" was the first "007" "Cubby" Broccoli movie in 1963, and it has an early scene with him being given the "PPK" to replace a Beretta .32 ACP, so the dialog was inappropriate. Geoffrey Boothroyd wrote Ian Fleming to tell him a ting .25 ACP was underpowered for such a man as 007 and he should replace it with a Walther "PPK" or a Smith & Wesson "Centennial", and 007 got both handguns in the novel. The movie armorer who gives 007 the "PPK" is Major Boothroyd and later called "Q".
The Winchester 1873 lever action rifle used a slightly bottlenecked .44-40 (.44" nominal diameter bullet with 40 grains of black powder behind it) cartridge originally, and it in 1875, it was also used by the civilan "Frontier" version of the Colt "Single-Action Army Metallic Cartridge Revolver" nicknamed "Peacemaker". The US Army used the .45 Colt version since 1871, and cowboys used the .44-40 version since 1875. There were bottleneck rimfire cartridges before any centerfire cartridges were made, but I thrink they were used only in rifles. Spencer began in 1860 with a .56-56 round that was used in the Civil War. The 56-50 has the same basic shell with a smaller diameter bullet.
Harry Sanford's AMT Auto Mag II was the first .22 WMR semi-automatic pistol in 1987. It was a smaller version of his 1971 .44 Magnum pistol. After folding and having new owners several times, this pistol is now sold by High Standard.
EDIT: Durden is wrong. 007's Beretta .25 and his Colt .45 he carries in the first five novels had no model numbers given. Ian Fleming was naive in such subjects. We aren't even told if the .45 is a revolver or a semi-automatic.
 
Since the other questions have been answered, I figured I'd toss this in for trivia. In the novels, Bond is introduced using .25 autos. Most attribute this to the baby Browning, which he DOES carry in later novels, but his first is the Beretta 418 (if memory serves me correctly).

The rest has been answered, I believe.
 
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