Maybe it’s like those old Rube Goldberg machines as in the beginning of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Some actually worked long ago.
The guy swore and shot wildly through the ceiling but hit a Bible in the neighbor’s pocket,ricocheted and glanced off a silver dollar and back downstairs to a metal popcorn bowl in the shooter’s apt.where it bounced upward and the bullet hit the dorky guy.
Ya got me.
Firing from the hip upwards, and recoil bent the gun back toward his face just as he squeezed off shot #2?