Answer: Clarence is holding a cut-down Remington 1100. RoboCop's "Auto 9" is actually a Beretta 93R machine pistol. Long before he was the curmudgeonly dad on That 70's Show, Kurtwood Smith played the cruel and villainous Clarence Boddicker in Paul Verhoeven's dismally brutal '80s classic. He uses a sawed off Remington 1100 semiauto with a heat shield in the first part of the movie, which he uses to "kill" Officer Alex Murphy. (Technically, Murphy is shot by what amounts to a firing squad, but I can't even show you a photo of that bloody scene.) Someone had to be the bad guy and shoot Murphy so he could come back as: RoboCop and his awe inspiring Auto 9 (top), which is really a Beretta underneath. The 93R (left) is a fully automatic version of the Beretta 92FS (right, and the current U.S. military sidearm, the M-9) pistol. In fact, you will see a lot of movies try to pass a 92FS off as a full-auto 93R. You can easily spot a fake. The 92FS has an integrated safety/decocking lever on the slide. The fire selector/safety on a 93R is mounted on the frame. RoboCop's gun, that awesome one that he keeps in a hollow compartment in his robot leg, is a 93R with a few embellishments, namely an elongated, ported barrel, and a giant shroud that covers the extra barrel length and extends beneath the slide to the trigger guard. Topped with big sights, the gun also has an extended magazine and custom grips, making it nearly unrecognizable. Robo fires the gun in bursts, but no magazine in the world could hold the amount of ammo he goes through. I don't believe he reloads once in the whole film. But he just looks so robot-satisfied behind that Barrett, doesn't he? RoboCop: "Dead or alive, you're coming with me." Bob Morton: "Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. His name, is RoboCop."

David Maccar