So there was this style of dual-wielding pistols in the ‘90s by holding them sideways, it came from HK gun-fu action movies, it was in the original Unreal Tournament, it was popular single-wielded as “gangster style” for a bitĪnd the thing is if you hold two pistols upright and they’re not both rigged to eject brass outwards there’s a chance one will eject brass into your eye or face I think the friend who brought me was expecting that this was going to be some sort of revelatory experience where I realized that Guns Are Your Friends and so gun control was a vile lie, but I feel like if guns were *really* my friends then the person who held one at a slightly different angle than everyone else would not have had a big security guy run up to him and freak out and yell at him until he changed the angle back.Īlso, Ada Palmer (author of Too Like The Lightning) was at the shooting range and I got to get a picture with her! I think if I ever have to write a story involving guns, I can use words like “magazine” without sounding ridiculous to people who know what they’re talking about. When you’re firing a gun for the first time and really nervous, and a bullet-shaped thing shoots out of the back of the gun and hits spectators in the face, this is NOT a minor point that you can forget to warn people about, even if it turns out to be nothing and everybody laughs that you were so worried about it. Somehow I managed to live in a “gun culture” and watch a bunch of action movies without realizing this was a thing. But it missed the most important part, which is that the gun will eject the spent bullet casing in a random direction. There was some helpful safety training beforehand.
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