Lord Travis
I think they can't use the actual names for the guns because of some copy right.
I mainly think this way because in the original RE they actually had real names but when they remade RE1 for GC the names were changed on some of the weapons((Ex: In the original Barry's handgun was a Colt Python .357*real gun*, and in the remake it was just Magnum .44)). Not to mention in every game past the orginial RE1 and the DC version all the guns were named by what kind it was, not it's actual name.
I mainly think this way because in the original RE they actually had real names but when they remade RE1 for GC the names were changed on some of the weapons((Ex: In the original Barry's handgun was a Colt Python .357*real gun*, and in the remake it was just Magnum .44)). Not to mention in every game past the orginial RE1 and the DC version all the guns were named by what kind it was, not it's actual name.
If you check out Barry's .44 and the .357 in the REremake, the words "Silver Serpent" are seen on the barrels. I've never heard of this weapon...but I've seen models of revolvers that looked similar (they were .38 target revolvers) *shrugs*