The "Auto-9" is a fictional machine pistol featured in the RoboCop series of movies. The original Auto-9 was a heavily modified Beretta 93R that was originally built for the titular protagonist of the 1987 film RoboCop, fitted with an extended casket-shaped barrel. Originally, the character was to use a Desert Eagle handgun, which at that time had only been recently introduced to the market. However, while the Desert Eagle looks big in the hands of a normal person, all of RoboCop's extra bulky armor made the Desert Eagle look relatively small in comparison. Therefore, the Auto-9 was made for RoboCop. Extra paperwork had to be filled for the Auto-9 to be allowed into the United States, because while technically a "pistol", for all intents and purposes it was a high caliber near-automatic we