Why do people of the African American Culture and gangs hold pistols sideways?

Evidently none of these people ever owned a Daisy BB gun. You cannot put a bullet effectively in a target at 75 feet holding a weapon sideways that recoils upwards.

Why do people of the African American Culture and gangs hold pistols sideways?
to look cool
Reply:It supposedly looks cool. Like those caps they wear sideways. They just look ******* stupid instead though.
Reply:Why don't you test your theory and stand in front of a person of the African American culture and let them fire off a few rounds at you from 75 feet; just to see if it's true what you say about the recoil and all that.


You know, in the interest of science and one less thinly veiled racist asking questions like they just want to innnocently know something that makes no damned difference in the real scheme of things in first place.
Reply:Are you sure you aren't just talking about something that looks good in movies? See below.
Reply:So they can show their faces better
Reply:you watch too many movies....seriously
Reply:People do this because they see it in movies, or music videos. The "white" way to hold a gun is how a police man would do it. The so called "black" way to do it is a little different with more style is guess.





Its just people imitating what Fifty Cent or other rappers and actors do.
Reply:Is this the question you decided to ask after seriously pondering? LOL!
Reply:so they look like bad azz mo fos. There have been comments made in movies mocking people who hold the gun sideways.
Reply:Yeah, but it's cool as hell.
Reply:Obviously you've never in been in the projects at a time when there's actual shooting and killing of people going on. Trust the people with the weapons are aware of how to use a gun and how to make a bullet hit the target in the way they desire. They also,I'm sure know and have owned just about all BB guns which is why they are so good with the different real weapons they use.





Now the media portrays minorities in a way where I'm sure all you've ever seen is the gun held sideways. I advise you to visit any ghetto or any part of the projects and hang around. Get a first hand look before you spout the nonssense you've seen on tv as fact.
Reply:Are you serious?? LOL you do know that's just in the movies right??? LOL LOL LOL





So what you are saying is that it is just people of African descent then? You are telling me that NO white men do this? If you really paid attention and weren't so stereotypical you would realize that it isn't a culture that does this it is the young people that see it in the MOVIES! It's the cool way to do it. I don't know anyone of any color who would shoot a BB gun side ways. This is just a ludacris question.
Reply:okay chill killer, your rants make no sense.......
Reply:They hold it because it looks more "gangster." Its basically represents confidence in the person holding the gun that he can shoot sideways, but it is obviously less effective. Even James Bond used to shoot his pistol sideways in many of his movies because people beleive it's a style.
Reply:cuz its badass
Reply:because it just looks way cooler...
Reply:LOL.. it's the 'way they roll'.. man, dont you know.. it's gangsta???
Reply:BECAUSE IT CUTS SICK!!!





IT IS DEAD COOL TO HOLD IT SIDEWAYS!!!
Reply:Idk last time I fired a gun I held properly, I think you watch to many movies or tv. You no what you can do tag along with one of the gangsters while their going to shoot up something and see how they fire you might get better insight
Reply:I took a gun permit class and the teacher said it is because that is the way the gun comes out of the box. But really there was a movie years ago where the lead, a person who either never held a real gun or the writer did not know what he was doing, He the gun side way and it was just copy as being cool.