Pistol grips on long guns, and rifle crime in general.

[krispos42]

35. You mean, like a crowd in the queue to go through a metal detector...

...to keep people disarmed and safe?




I've shot from the hip. 5-gallon pail at maybe 10 yards (maybe 15, it was a while ago) with an autoloading, traditional-stocked .22 rifle. It held 15 rounds, and I doubt I hit it more than 3 or 4 times.

I had to "walk" my fire onto it, and have a rigid posture and careful body control to bring the gun onto the pail.

It would have been far faster and more lethal to simply mount the gun in the ordinary fashion... I could have scored 15 out of 15 in maybe 5 seconds.

It's hard to hold the gun perfectly level. A slight dip, and you're striking the ground a couple of dozen yards downrange. A slight rise, and you're shooting over the crowd. You don't have a good sense of reference. Bullets don't spark when they hit things (like the movies portray them) so you don't get a good sense of where they are impacting unless you hit dry dirt or maybe glass. And looking down at the gun to try to make sure it's level means you're not looking down-range for targets.

We'd save lives if more criminals shot from the hip (rifles and shotguns) or held their pistols sideways. Because they couldn't hit much.

The only way that it from the hip would have worked well is if I had a laser sight mounted on the gun, and then I could just shoot from the hip while watching the red laser dot.