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Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:12 pm
by Chuck
Found this wee estory by accident.
just wondering what our pistol shooters on here think of the experts explanation
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... nique.html
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:22 pm
by meles meles
'ollyocks.
There's a better explanation out, proposed I think by the FBI / NYPD, who looked into it. There's a film out there somewhere in which the 'hero' shoots a gun in this manner. It's entirely a Hollywood invention but looks cool, and looking cool matters 'in da hood'.
The NYPD are rather content with this shooting style and are keen that 'gangstas' carry on looking cool. It seems that many pistols used in this manner tend to fail to eject cleanly and so jam after only one or two shots, resulting in lives saved.
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:37 pm
by Chuck
Next they'll be trying to "curve" bullets round obstacles :lol: :lol:
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:46 pm
by meles meles
p**f-jets, ooman. p**f-jets. DARPA have done it already...
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:49 pm
by tackb
I understand American gangstas using this method but uk gangstas couldn't because pistols are illegal here in the good old uk?
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:52 pm
by meles meles
Exactly, ooman. They have to apply for a FAC and show good reason for ownership, i.e. intimidating the gang in the next postcode / teaching them some respect, and by the time the paperwork comes through they have either grown up and moved on or been stabbed to death.
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:01 pm
by Chuck
meles / tackB :lol: :lol:
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:45 am
by Doz
Some of the comments underneath the story are quite funny. I particularly liked:
"That also helps explain why gangstas can fire off two hundred rounds in a gunfight and nobody gets hit."
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:50 am
by Polchraine
meles meles wrote:Exactly, ooman. They have to apply for a FAC and show good reason for ownership, i.e. intimidating the gang in the next postcode / teaching them some respect, and by the time the paperwork comes through they have either grown up and moved on or been stabbed to death.
postcode? surely you mean 'hood or sett !
Re: Why ganstas and movie folks hold their guns sideways
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:42 am
by Chuck
I just wonder where they found this "expert"..............Can you imagine him training our police and military to do this...jeez.
"yo' homey......step away from the rides or I'll bust a cap in your ass...NOW!!!!.....SIR!.."