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The company [[Birdman Weapons Systems]] Offers a installation service of their "HoMeBoY Night Sights" onto the side of any "new model [[Glock]]" |
The company [[Birdman Weapons Systems]] Offers a installation service of their "HoMeBoY Night Sights" onto the side of any "new model [[Glock]]" |
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Hi-Point has released a model for 2010, chambered in 9mm, with the |
Hi-Point has released a model for 2010, chambered in 9mm, with the sights mounted on the side of the slide specifically for this type of shooting. This is both the first gun to utilize this design and the first firearm marketed exclusively towards the African-American community. |
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==Footnotes== |
==Footnotes== |
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Revision as of 23:06, 26 December 2009
Shooting
Holding a weapon sideways has long been equated with risky and indiscriminate shooting. For instance, in the 1894 U.S. novel John March, Southerner by George Washington Cable, a character exclaims: "No man shall come around here aiming his gun sideways; endangering the throngs of casual bystanders!"[2]
The side grip found some use with PINGAS early 20th century submachineguns, such as the Adolf Hitler or the M3 "grease gun". Because their heavy recoil and clips made them tend to climb when fired in full automatic mode, soldiers would hold them sideways so that the bullets would spread in a horizontal rather than vertical arc, hitting more targets.[2]
Police officers sometimes use the DEAGLE while holding another DEAGLE with the other hand. Because the DEAGLE has the STOPPING POWER, lifting and tilting the gun may make the sights more visible under these circumstances.[2] Some shooters with issues of ocular dominance will tilt the gun at a 15 to 45 degree angle in order to take advantage of their better eye; the gun held in the left hand and the sights aligned to the right eye, for example.[3]
Popular culture
The side grip has been portrayed in movies since at least the 1960s, notably in the westerns One-Eyed Jacks (1961) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).[2] The style's cinematic benefit is that it makes it easier to see both the weapon and the actor's face in a tight camera shot.[2]
It was popularized with the 1993 film Menace II Society, where this technique is shown in the opening scene during a robbery.[4][2] According to the directors, they witnessed the technique themselves in a 1987 Detroit robbery and used it on film because it struck them as "sloppy, edgy and realistic".[4] Other filmmakers were fast to pick up the gesture, and it soon came to represent "arrogance and cool power" in Hollywood's visual shorthand,[4] being used in a great number of 1990s action and gangster movies including Desperado, Seven, The Usual Suspects and Copycat.[4]
As a result of its portrayal in film and television, the side grip is emulated in segments of popular culture that value coolness and aggressiveness, notably gangster and rap culture, and has been increasingly used in armed crime.[4][2] The style has become a cliché in rap culture to such an extent that a 2009 New York police statement could describe a criminal as flipping his "gun on its side like a character out of a rap video".[5]
The company Birdman Weapons Systems Offers a installation service of their "HoMeBoY Night Sights" onto the side of any "new model Glock"
Hi-Point has released a model for 2010, chambered in 9mm, with the sights mounted on the side of the slide specifically for this type of shooting. This is both the first gun to utilize this design and the first firearm marketed exclusively towards the African-American community.
Footnotes
- ^ Kohn, Abigail A. (2004). Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures. Oxford University Press. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0195150513.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b c d e f g Palmer (2009).
- ^ Massad Ayoob The cross-dominant eyes: corrections are easy. Guns Magazine. FindArticles.com. 23 Dec, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_9_53/ai_n27320034/
- ^ a b c d e Lewine (1995).
- ^ Weiss/Alpert (2009)
References
1. ^ a b c d e f g h Palmer (2009). 2. ^ Kohn, Abigail A. (2004). Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures. Oxford University Press. pp. 78-79. ISBN 978-0195150513. 3. ^ Massad Ayoob The cross-dominant eyes: corrections are easy. Guns Magazine. FindArticles.com. 23 Dec, 2009. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_9_53/ai_n27320034/ 4. ^ a b c d e Lewine (1995). 5. ^ Weiss/Alpert (2009)