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Samsung - Samsung promos. Its impracticality is shown in that Derek is able to disarm him with relative ease. Battlefield Earth 's villains use guns that are apparently designed to be shot this way. Not surprisingly, they're all terrible shots. Blade in the Blade movies and the short-lived TV series' does this.

In The Bourne Identity , Jason manages to disarm a mook by flipping the gun towards him which would be a forward flip away from the mook , and then, without bothering to correct it, he sticks his pinky in the trigger guard and shoots the mook.

He then comes under attack before he's able to correct the grip, and dual guns the other mook down. Tellingly, she never holds her guns like this when she is actually killing someone, so Santiago was probably never in any real danger from her and she was just holding the gun like this to scare him. In Brotherhood of the Wolf , Fronsac fires two flintlock pistols this way during a target practice sequence.

Hilarious in Hindsight if you know anything about flintlock weapons: not only would aiming them that way make an already-inaccurate weapon even more so, but they simply wouldn't be able to fire in that position. With a Desert Eagle. And she hits. Detective MJ Monahan does this at one point during a training exercise, despite being a trained and experienced police officer who would know full well what a bad idea this is.

This is not two seconds after advising her partner on how to aim for a perp's shoulder instead of the torso so as to merely wound instead of kill him, something else someone in her position would know is implausible. In The Dark Knight Rises , when Stryver is attempting to kill Selina Kyle at the bar, he holds his pistol in this manner as a way to threaten her.

In Date Night , Phil Steve Carell , already panicking at being held at gunpoint, really freaks out when it's turned on its side: "He's turning it sideways! Kill shot! That's a kill shot! Naomi Misora fires her gun sideways at Shiori and manages to hit her much to her shock and surprise.

Shortly after, its revealed that Naomi had been shooting with the intent to miss, and had only been successful because Light had dictated with the Death Note that Shiori would die of being shot, and that Naomi would fire warning shots and commit suicide out of horror for having killed someone. Somehow, he still manages to be accuracte. In Eagle Eye , after the protagonists are forced to rob an armored van, the Feds question the guards.

One of them picks up a shotgun and asks if the robbers held it like they do in rap videos. The guard replies that they looked like they knew how to handle firearms. Since he's at point blank range, his accuracy isn't going to suffer, and he's just trying to scare the mugger off anyway. Intimidation factor of it all. Craig Jones Ice Cube in Friday holds his gun this way in two separate scenes.

In an early example from The Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Tuco finishes off a bounty hunter using this technique, during the famous "When you have to shoot, shoot , don't talk! Cue lots and lots of pretty red lights focusing on Hassan. Even some of the trained bodyguards are guilty of this: Hassan: See this is what happens see when you been living lavish, you know, sippin' wine an' everything then we come in here Neno Brown Style.

In A Parcel of Rogues , Daryl McCarthy indulges in gangsta style firing at the people pursuing him, something he's always wanted to do. He was intentionally missing to bait on his pursuers, though, so the inaccuracy of the method wasn't an issue.

Sure, you can't hit shit that way, but if you don't want to, it surely is fun. Live-Action TV. The leader of the short-lived series Acapulco Heat had a variation on this. He held two pistols at once, but fired one normally and the other horizontally, lining them both up at once at a degree angle. This is probably very unwieldy and not at all recommended for use in real life, but it's also the only way you could conceivably try to aim down both sights of two pistols at once while dual-wielding.

In Brooklyn Nine-Nine , Scully proposes going Up to Eleven on this by holding the guns upside down and firing with your pinkies the "logical conclusion" seen in the trope picture , calling it "upsie donwsies".

Jake immediately dismisses the idea. He actually uses in when he fakes a surrender in a paintball game against the other precincts, winning the game for the 99th precinct and telling Scully to never talk about it. In an episode of Burn Notice , Michael tries to get on a gang leader's sidekick's good side in order to put the leader away and get a cop off his back.

When Michael is given a gun in order to rob a dry cleaners, his associate corrects his handling of it, turning the gun sideways. Michael, who is certified on pretty much every firearm known to man, winces appreciably. In the Community episode " Modern Warfare " a continuity goof has Britta holding a gun this way whenever the camera's on her and right way up when it's Over the Shoulder. In an episode of CSI , Catherine Willows tells a smug gangster that this amateurish way of shooting caused a suspicious burn on the gangster's neck from the hot ejected shell casing, as well as leaving traces of the shooter's DNA on the shell casing.

Played with in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder. Dick Van Dyke 's character Mark Sloan is at a gun range being shown how to use a pistol.

He fires off a few rounds normally with realistic loudness and recoil and then asks the man who was showing him whether he could fire it sideways "like on TV", twisting it to the side to show him what he meant. While the instructor starts saying why it's a bad idea, Mark fires the gun anyway by accident and the recoil flings it out of his hand with great ease and force - which creates a big enough diversion for another character to sneak past.

In the Polish series Father Mateusz a teenager falls in with a gang of gangster wannabes. They manage to obtain a pistol and start shooting bottles with in an abandoned warehouse. They insist on holding the gun sideways which illustrates that they are mostly just posers and probably not responsible for the brutal crime currently investigated by the police. Perhaps because this is his preferred style, his aim is terrible. Considering his Chinese Dragon motif, this may actually be a reference to the Chinese example above, rather than Gangstas.

The cops even point out that this was foolishly done in imitation of "gangsta flicks. After being corrected one remarks "Wow, it lines up and everything! But when you're not actually pulling the trigger note Tory went flying courtesy of a special harness, a rope, and the rest of the team , it doesn't matter that this method is inaccurate.

They visited it again when testing how effective various firing stances are, with Adam remarking that he "always wanted to hold a gun like this! In The Newsroom , Will discovers that his date carries a pistol in her purse.

After he removes the bullets, she points it at him to demonstrate what would happen to an attacker. He deftly disarms her and points her own gun back at her gangsta style, saying that this is more likely to happen. They missed. All of the blasters in Otherworld are meant to be held upside-down. This means that guns are all impossible to aim, but maybe that justified the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship.

On Party Down , Kyle tries to hold a gun sideways and Roman immediately tells him "no one holds a gun like that". Deconstructed and lampshaded in the pilot of Person of Interest. The protagonist John Reese walks in on a gun buy to acquire weapons , and asks the people involved if they've taken a firearms safety course. And then demonstrates it to them as he wipes the floor with the entire group.

Reese : Take you, for instance. You're holding that thing sideways. You can't aim it, and two: it'll eject a shell casing right into your face. Given Stephen's obsession with doing what feels good rather than what makes sense, it's not surprising that when he snaps and decides to shoot up the set, he's going to do it Gangsta Style.

On a weaponry-themed Image Board , some anonymous posters had possibly Truth in Television pictures of gangsters in an African town shooting in all sorts of "gangsta" styles; it was mentioned that they followed a spray and pray principle and did it as macho posturing. It wasn't until the release of Revenge of the Sith that LEGO finally corrected this, but seeing a literal army of "gangsta" battle droids was pretty amusing.

Tabletop Games. Specifically, all attacks are treated as "Unsighted Shooting" with all the usual benefits and drawbacks thereof. However, the stance encourages limp-wristing penalty to Guns and, if used with an automatic, increases the likelihood that the weapon will malfunction.

In Hero System 's combat handbook, holding a gun sideways incurs a penalty on attack rolls but adds a bonus to Presence when attempting to impress people. Vampire: The Masquerade has "Gangsta Style" as a special attack. It has two drawbacks: reducing your accuracy and increasing the chance of a misfire, and provides absolutely no benefit whatsoever. Generally and surprisingly averted in the 50 Cent game series. Jackson and his cohorts fire their armament in the standard manner, though foes will occasionally cant their guns the ninety degrees required of this trope.

In 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand , Fiddy will only hold guns like this if he's pairing them up in gameplay. The Gold Edition of Aliens vs. Predator gives the Marine new and mostly useless pistols as a weapon. When alternate fire is used with a pair of them, he turns them sideways. In Blood II the alternate fire for the single pistol fires the gun this way and increases the rate of fire. It's apparently an emergency mode to quickly empty the pistol into a close-range attacker.

Notice how Caleb points the barrel downwards as he shoots. The special sniper rifle from Modern Warfare 3 's "Eye of the Storm" mission can be fired in this manner if the player switches to using the red dot sight on it. Said sight is mounted 45 degrees on the left side of the barrel, though, so the gun is tilted in the opposite direction you'd expect, and not to the full 90 degrees either.

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare , during night-time operations in both single and multi-player modes, the player will tilt his rifle 45 degrees instead of looking down the gun's optics. This is because the player is aiming instead with the mounted IR laser, as most optical attachments are not compatible with NVGs. City of Villains , Troperiffic as ever, has the Thugs summoned by Masterminds and the Masterminds themselves use dual pistols like this.

One of the reasons the players have been begging for years for a fully fleshed-out powerset to be given to the ranged combat classes. And now those who have pre-ordered 'Going Rogue' have access to the Dual Pistols power sets for Blaster, Defenders and Corruptors that employs Gunfu with liberal amounts of sideways shooting. Due to an animation goof, his finger isn't even on the trigger when he fires, and the gun shows no recoil. Dante in Devil May Cry fires his twin pistols this way when firing while sidestepping.

In addition, in the third game, he often turns one pistol or the other sideways if firing at separate targets in his Gunslinger fighting style. Also, in cutscenes, or if using gunslinger mode to fire at a single target, Dante will hold both guns sideways and hold his arms across each other, left gun on the right side, right gun on the left side.

First done in the series at the end of the first game, coupled with Dante's Catchphrase: "Jackpot! Vergil - who usually doesn't use guns - does this when he and Dante momentarily team up to finish off Arkham in Devil May Cry 3.

Dungeon Fighter Online has a gunner class. Most of their shots are normal, but Multi-headshot and Moving Shot skills turn sideways like Dante. In Escape from Tarkov , small offset sights exist that can be mounted to a player's gun, which causes it to be tilted 45 degrees when aiming with it.

While the idea is to allow a gun to accommodate a second sight system in case the primary one is a magnified scope, they can still be mounted standalone, meaning players could — and have — run around with guns they have to tilt to aim, just because.

Male Elvaan from Final Fantasy XI tend to hold guns and crossbows in this fashion, as well as firing bows in an awkward diagonal position. Now it makes sense why their DEX is so crappy. Special Projects Highline.

HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. First, a primer on aiming a pistol. Oh crap, now I have to do a legal disclaimer. See bottom. In general, as I said, if you are aiming the same way every time, you will be hitting your target. The problem with tilt style shooting is that it is almost impossible to acquire a reliable sight alignment. The alignment in tilt style is achieved by making the weapon flat and aiming down the side. In theory this works, but in practice, you can't accurately measure movement left or right, 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.

This means that you never actually take the same shot twice, since you are never actually aiming the same way. Your focal point should be on the front sight tip and located exactly between the other two sights. There should be an imaginary lined formed along the top of the three posts.

This is proper sight alignment. Below, you will see proper sight alignment and sight picture. The picture is difficult to see the alignment, so I added three dots that are a common feature in many weapons that help gain sight picture and sight alignment. In general, I think that most people would agree that gangster shooters aren't really trained that well.

Most of them are probably just imitating others. Only seasoned ones would have actual knowledge of why this is done. If you ask them they would probably not have ever heard of Flash Sight Picture, but this is the technique they are using. In general, only the best criminals place very much emphasis on training, and even then you need a few people who actually know how to teach everyone else.

As I said, most people are probably just imitating, but they are doing it in a way that is consistent with some actual shooting methods out there. More questions on Gangsters :. Why do gangsters carry their guns at their waist, under their belts? Does the Mafia still exist? Quora, Contributor. Suggest a correction. What's Hot. Country's T.