Posted on 10/13/2004 9:51:49 AM PDT by 45Auto
According to an article published in the September issue of Handguns magazine, a recent decline in fatalities resulting from inner city handgun shootings can be credited to the thriving popularity of a flashy new gangsta-style shooting technique wherein the weapon is canted 180 degrees from its normal upright position. "Hollywood overkill of the sideways gangsta shooting method encouraged many modern hoods to look for a less trendy but equally cool-looking technique for offin' someone,'" wrote freelancer Marian Ayoob in Handguns' September cover story, entitled "Better To Look Good Than To Shoot Good." "Over the last three months, holding a gun completely upside down has become the predominant method used by stylish gangstas whom, as they say, 'be fixin' to put a cap in a [person's] dome.'"
The article went on to reiterate statistics from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), which documented August 2002 as having the lowest record of shooting fatalities for men between the ages of 17-34 since December 1980.
"The number of gang-related altercations involving gunplay has remained steady, yet the rate of fatalities resulting from these shootings dropped fourteen percent last month," wrote Ayoob. "These statistics clearly indicate that the bullets - of which there are approximately the same number being fired - are not hitting their intended targets."
Ayoob also cited studies by ballistic experts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, which estimate that employing the unorthodox handgun shooting technique can reduce a subject's short range accuracy by as much as 80 percent.
U of M researchers said that this significant decrease in accuracy results from attempting to shoot the firearm while it is upside down.
"A gangsta utilizing the sideways, ninety-degree shooting method generally experiences only an accuracy loss of roughly twenty percent," said Dr. Keith Marcus of the University of Michigan. "But the shooter loses tremendous accuracy when the gun is turned an additional ninety degrees. With the sideways method you could still use the sights to aim. Upside down, you have to pretty much guesstimate [when aiming]. And having to use your pinky to operate the trigger certainly doesn't help."
Marcus added that a shooter's accuracy is further reduced if the subject is either running from police or trying to look at himself in a mirror while aiming.
Still, Ayoob contends, more and more gangstas are becoming willing to sacrifice accuracy in return for aesthetic rewards.
"What the shooter loses in short and long-range accuracy, and the ability to quickly fire consecutive rounds, he or she more than makes up for in presenting a more 'bad ass' appearance [than using a standard shooting technique]," wrote Ayoob. "Polls indicate that thugs consider 'how you be representin' be just as important as how you be shootin'.'"
Ayoob said that Americans can expect the number of shooting fatalities to continue to drop as the flamboyant attack pose gains further popularity among the public.
"Right now, only gangstas residing in the bigger, more progressive cities are employing the 'one-eighty cock,' as some are calling it," said Ayoob. "As soon as the entertainment media gets wind that holding the gun upside down is the 'wuz-up cuz' cool way to fire off a round, you'll be seeing it in all of the movies and television shows."
Added Ayoob: "Wait until the next Denzel Washington character blasts a cop using the one-eighty cock. Everyone will want to be shooting that way. Morgues across the country will probably have to layoff half of their staffs due to lack of business."
Forget all about that holding your pistol upside down or sideways - this is what you need to do...
THE MOZAMBIQUE TWO-STEP
Believed to have been originated by Jim Sorrentino, et. al.
at Gunsite.
Sung to the tune of "Dominique"
CHORUS:
Mozambique him, Mozambique him,
If he fails to hit the ground
After two well-placed rounds!
Shoot between the eyes and lips,
No, NOT between the hips,
That should put the goblin down!
VERSE:
With your sights on center chest
Twice you your trigger you have pressed.
If two don't stop the fight,
A head-shot should set it right!
CHORUS
VERSE:
It is best to use a slug
Big enough to stop a thug.
Calibers that start with four
Will better drop them to the floor!
CHORUS
VERSE:
Stop this talk of "failure drills",
For it denigrates our skills.
Failure is a word so bleak,
But I rejoice at "MOZAMBIQUE"!
CHORUS
ADDITIONAL VERSE
In full evening dress you stroll
when accosted by a troll
who seizes your maiden fair.
Three quick shots to save the day,
reload, press-check, you're on your way,
and you've scarcely mussed a hair.
ADDITIONAL VERSE
Mozambique the bloody creep!
For he's been breathing far too long
and you must shut him down.
There's only one way to construe
the way he points that gun at you.
The time to act is now.
or maybe, for the second part of the above
'Tis unmitigated act
that you need now and that's a fact.
Thank Heaven you know how!
http://home.sprynet.com/~frfrog/mozam.htm
gangstas are idiots....case closed.
The Capt.
Please excuse my vulgarity, but that's f'n-assed stupid. Since I pay less than zero attention to rap and so-called black street "music" of any kind, I thought the sideways gun grip was a fan Hollywood invented. Shows me Hollywood types are even more stupid than I thought, since they copied an idiotic fad from people who are essentially street thugs. And these people want us to pay attention to their political views?!!!
Well, there's "instinctive" and then there's "gangsta"...
Canting my pistol about 30 degrees inward while not fully locking the elbow has worked very well for me in both speed and accuracy. It helps soak up recoil as well as providing a steady platform.
My thoughts as well............
Guess I should have tagged this as satire.....
It would be my luck to run up against some modern day Ed McGivern.
Are you cross-dominant eye vs. hand?
For those who don't know, everyone has a strong eye as well as a strong hand. Usually but not always the two are on the same side of the body; both right, or both left. One aims instinctively and under stress better with the dominant eye, just as one's dexterity is greater with the dominant hand.
Nope, I'm right handed and right eyed.
This technique was taught to me by an NRA certified instructor with whom I also shoot IDPA. My problem prior to trying this was that my sight picture was jumping all over the place when I held the pistol one handed, at full extension, perpendicular to the ground, and with my feet square to target. Combine that with a longish DA trigger pull and I had problems.
This canted hold, unlocked elbow, right foot forward stance felt odd at first, but (for me) it really helped.
I am also an NRA certified instructor (Basic Pistol, Personal Protection, Home Firearm Safety) and I've taught that canting technique to persons who are cross-dominant.
I'm right handed and left eyed. When I shot Indoor Pistol they taught me to shoot left handed, which I didn't like. I eventually just figured I could do as well right handed, and just look right a little. My scores were a little better right handed.
While I consider myself ambidextrous, the right is my strong hand..
However, I am blind in my right eye...
For most general purposes, I carry right-handed, shoot right-handed..
When I have the time to do so, I will transfer the weapon to the left hand to get a left-left configuration/stance.
NO 90 degree or 180 degree for me..
If I have to use a gun, it's killing time..
The less shots it takes the better..
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