The X-Files - Season 3

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The X-Files - Season 3 (1995-1996)

The following firearms are seen in Season 3 of the television series The X-Files:

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Handguns

Smith & Wesson 5906

Having changed sidearms in both Season 1 and Season 2 both FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) begin carrying yet a different sidearm, in this case the Smith & Wesson 5906. Both Mulder and Scully use 5906s as their sidearms (marking the first and only time in the show both characters use the same weapon) for almost all of Season 3. Their superior, Assistant Director Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) is also seen using a 5906 as his carry weapon. Part of Smith & Wesson's 'Third Generation' semiautos, the 5906 is chambered to fire 9x19mm Luger (Parabellum) ammunition, has fully ambidextrous safety levers, a one piece rear wraparound grip and construction is all stainless steel. The S&W 5906s used by Mulder and Scully are later models with the rounded trigger guards, and also feature adjustable rear sights, black triggers and hammers.

Mulder and Scully carry their Smith & Wesson 5906s starting in "D.P.O." (S3E03) and continue to carry them for the rest of the season. In "Syzygi" (S3E13), Scully and Mulder's 5906s had accidental discharges (as did several other firearms).

NOTE: Several users have suggested that these pistols might be the Smith & Wesson 1076 in 10mm, which was briefly used by the FBI. This is incorrect; the 1076 has a single-stack frame, while the pistols in the show have double-stack frames, meaning that they can only be the model S&W 5906. The show's guns are not the .40-caliber 4006, because the 4006's frame features checkering on the grip, missing on the show's Smith & Wessons (the 5906 frame has vertical grooves on the grip). The model S&W 1076 can be easily distinguished from the S&W 5906, as the 1076 is hammerless, has no manual safety and a frame mounted de-cocking lever. This is a TV show, not real life, and movie/television armorers have always tended to use 9mm pistols rather than larger calibers, because 9mm blanks are more reliable to cycle in pistols than larger calibers.

Smith & Wesson 5906, late model with adjustable sights - 9x19mm

Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) aims her Smith & Wesson 5906 in "D.P.O." (S3E03).

Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) enters a room with his S&W 5906 in "Jose Chung's From Outer Space" (S3E20).

Walther PPK

In Season 3, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) can be seen carrying a Walther PPK as a back-up pistol to his main sidearm, kept in an ankle holster. The weapon is notably seen in the episodes "Nisei" (S3E09) and "731" (S3E10).

Walther PPK - 7.65x17mm (.32 ACP)

"..I got tired losing my gun." Mulder draws his backup Walther PPK in "Nisei" (S3E09).

Manurhin PPK

In the season opener "The Blessing Way" (S3E01) Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is seen reusing the Manurhin PPK she used during most of the first season - She carries it when the FBI confiscates her (then) assigned SIG-Sauer P228 service pistol that she carries primarily in Season 2.

Manurhin PPK, licensed French-made clone of the German Walther PPK - .32 ACP

Taurus Model 66

Near the end of the episode "Pusher" (S3E17), mind-controlling killer Robert Patrick Modell and Fox Mulder both use what appears to be a stainless early-model Taurus Model 66 revolver during a game of Russian Roulette.

Early model Taurus Model 66 with 6 round cylinder, blued finish and wood grips - .357 Magnum

The Taurus Model 66 by Modell's hands on a table in "Pusher" (S3E17).

The Taurus revolver lying next to Mulder's hands.

Mulder pulls the revolver's trigger (on an empty chamber).