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Why Do Gangsters Aim Their Guns Sideways? Marine Marksman Sheds Light On Gangbanger Tactics
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| 4 October 2012
| Damien Gayle
Posted on 10/04/2012 8:21:47 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: MarkL
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posted on
10/04/2012 10:06:01 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: DogByte6RER
I don't know about this guy's explanation but I found that shooting my .45 sideways, causing the recoil to go sideways instead of up, made it a lot easier to get back on target. That's on the premise that you are using the point-and-shoot method and not aiming.
Point-and-shoot shooting can be very accurate. It's the essence of shotgunning.
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posted on
10/04/2012 10:14:34 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
To: Vendome
“If you need a quick shit that is very effective practice punching your target.”
The “I” and “O” really are close together on a key board aren’t they?
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posted on
10/04/2012 10:26:31 PM PDT
by
Holly_P
To: ETL
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posted on
10/04/2012 10:27:19 PM PDT
by
ArmyTeach
(Our liberties, we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
To: MarkL
Having been unwittingly caught up in a gang-banger, dual-pistol execution field-of-fire (New Orleans, 2006), I can tell you that there are so many bullets, pieces of brick, cars, and everything else flying around, the shooter is bound to hit something. I was flat on the ground. My partner got part of a round in the top of the skull, but he’s a marine, so it didn’t hurt much. There were two others wounded, one fatality. These guys don’t aim, and they don’t get usually get caught, either. They don’t expect to live long, and they most interested in speed and volume.
To: DogByte6RER
Doubtful that any of the gangsters have any concept of aiming, it’s point and shoot, that’s why so many innocent bystanders get shot.
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posted on
10/04/2012 10:29:22 PM PDT
by
Holly_P
To: DogByte6RER
Um, gangbanger style aiming is utterly ineffective. But it looks badazz, and that's what matters to the bangers.
And I'm OK with that because when the SHTF it gives me a tactical advantage.
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posted on
10/04/2012 10:31:57 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: MarkL
Not a hand gun shooter, but wonder if holding it like that would interfere with ejection of spent shells.
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posted on
10/04/2012 10:43:45 PM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
Not a hand gun shooter, but wonder if holding it like that would interfere with ejection of spent shells.Being left handed, and given the ejection pattern of my 1911, I'd wind up having the hot cases hit me in the knees or shins.
For a righty, my guess is that it would launch them over his head.
Mark
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posted on
10/04/2012 11:30:40 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Holly_P
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posted on
10/05/2012 12:00:41 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: DogByte6RER
With all due respect, this article is meadow muffins.
Front sight acquire and fire...and hold the damn thing correctly.
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posted on
10/05/2012 2:03:43 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
To: Roccus
Lol. Depends. One of my guns seemed to *always* give me a hot shell down my shirt front :). Whatever way it was aimed.
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posted on
10/05/2012 2:13:45 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
To: Vendome
The real fasties use wheelguns. Slide can’t cycle fast enough to keep up with an expert revolver shooter.
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posted on
10/05/2012 2:17:35 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
To: DogByte6RER
They think that’s the way you shoot it because that’s how it comes out of the box.
To: DogByte6RER
Sorry, but they do it to look cool (which they don’t). Some even hold it up too high to even pretend to be aiming.
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posted on
10/05/2012 4:04:41 AM PDT
by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: Hardraade; MarkL
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posted on
10/05/2012 4:11:04 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Vendome
If you need a quick shit that is very effective practice punching your target.
37
posted on
10/05/2012 4:18:27 AM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
To: expat2
” First, they are called “sights”, not sites.”
Really? Cite?
;)
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posted on
10/05/2012 4:52:01 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
(Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
To: DogByte6RER
The author says...
The problem with tilt style shooting is that it is almost impossible to acquire a reliable sight alignment.
and... ...you have absolutely no way of knowing if the weapon is tilted down below your field of vision from the back of the weapon.
and......you never actually take the same shot twice since you are never actually aiming the same way.
Then, from all those negatives, he somehow ends up with this...
This, Mr Davis adds, shows that there is in fact a rational method behind why gangsters aim their weapon side on.
Thanks anyway, but I think I'll stay away from both the method and the twisted nonsensical logic.
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posted on
10/05/2012 5:30:57 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: DogByte6RER
They do it because they believe it looks cool. End of story.
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posted on
10/05/2012 5:37:23 AM PDT
by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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