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I'm far better with a handgun than I am with a long gun, but a pistol shot freehand by an excited person is always a stretch. If this guy had a rifle, and assuming no buck fever, he shouldn't have had any problem taking a windshield at reasonable distance. The fact that he even shot under these circumstances demonstrates he's already lacking something upstairs.

Of course. I'm just trying to explain the mechanics. The original poster tried to blame a miss on a short barreled pistol in a small caliber. The point I tried to make is that only sight radius is the excuse.
Take a pistol and rifle in the same caliber, same scope and there isn't a large difference.
A couple of years ago, there was a guy who wrote a letter to the NRA and explained what he was doing. He was taking a Thompson Contender and a ten power scope and he was getting unbelievable groups out to hundreds of yards.
Ironically, the article now claims he used a rifle. At a helicopter that was so close it threatened his house.