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[–] • 5 pts

Because you are much more likely to hit your target with a handgun using a two hand grip. You are also less likely to get feeding issues from limp wristing.

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Well I tell you what, those FBI agents (when one of them is not getting stabbed or shot or beaten to a pulp or getting locked inside a garage with a rabid dog or maybe getting strung out on heroin and needing rehab...love affairs amongst them weren't too common,I dunno why because I'm sure, you know, jews were involved and should have taken advantage of adultery story lines...)...they always used two hands.

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You need to stop sniffing model glue. Seriously, that shit will kill you. It turns your brain into swiss cheese.

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Tbf it smells reeeeeealy good though

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I've only done that once, and back in the day we chose lighter fluid.

I was forced to watch Criminal Minds because the guy who wrote it (one of them) I knew his dad on facebook.

https://www.creativescreenwriting.com/christopher-barbour-talks-csi-criminal-minds/

[–] • 5 pts

Different methods of Police training back in the day. Dirty Harry would use the "weaver" stance to make yourself a narrower target. (No body armor) Today's cops are trained in whats called a "Combat Isosceles" stance. Basically squaring up to the target, using their body armor to maximum effect while also having better firearm control using 2 hands.

[–] • 1 pt

Many of your better police pistol marksmen back in the day were also competitive bullseye shooters. Standing off-hand position, with emphasis on x-ring accuracy, fired one-handed from a bladed stance.

Frankly what we have learned the hard way over the years is that there is no "magic bullet" when it comes to pistols. Statistically speaking, if you look at actual ER results, pistols are a terrible way to try and kill somebody. Right up there with nunchucks and ninja throwing stars. That's why nobody that does it for a living knowingly goes to a gunfight these days armed with just a pistol.

An increased analysis of actual shootings, a better understanding of wound ballistics, coupled with cross-fertilization from competitive IPSC style shooting for the last several decades has placed an emphasis on multiple rapid hits in the upper thoracic region. If each shot represents a roll of the dice, then you start rolling them as fast as possible till you roll lucky 7, and they go down. And stay down.

That means increased emphasis on recoil control for firing fast, accurate strings of rapid fire.

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Oh, had no idea, come to think of it when I was growing up in the sixties I don't remember and cops using two hands (at least not on TV lol).

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It's harder to shoot accurately using one hand. Kind of feels like the difference between chopping onions vs chopping onions while standing only on one leg.

People who do it either practice a lot and understand that you only do it if your other hand is unavailable for some reason, or they don't know anything and are just blindly shooting and relying on luck.

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Either shooting style is good. Two-handed styles have become more popular as double action became the standard and the effective range of pistols increased.

It used to be even the military taught people to shoot with only one hand (sometimes called "military style" or "point" shooting). You presented your shoulder to the target, extended your arm straight until the top of the gun was at eye level, and fired. This style allows for quicker acquisiton, presents less of a target profile, and feels more natural. Obviously you're going to be more stable with two hands though.

Kind of oddly, now when we teach people to shoot one-handed due to an injury or whatnot, we have them more or less maintain the two-handed stance instead of teaching them the older style.

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Ah, more range would make sense.

Told another guy here, I grew up in the sixties and I don't remember any two handed stuff back then.