🚀 go-pugleaf

They're naturally stupid.  Any idiot who has to drive a car with his hat
on sideways, while sitting dead center on the console just to look
"stylin' ", is a couple slabs short of a sidewalk anyway. 

http://www.slate.com/id/2238560/

As police chased Raymond "Ready" Martinez through Times Square on
Thursday, the street hustler and aspiring rapper fired two shots,
holding the gun sideways "like a character out of a rap video."
According to the New York Post, Martinez's side grip caused the gun to
jam, enabling police to shoot and kill the suspect. What's the point of
holding a gun sideways? 

To look Hollywood, of course. Journalists and gun experts point to the
1993 Hughes brothers film Menace II Society, which depicts the side grip
in its opening scene, as the movie that popularized the style. Although
the directors claim to have witnessed a side grip robbery in Detroit in
1987, there are few reports of street gangs using the technique until
after the movie came out. The Hughes brothers didn't invent the grip,
though. In 1961's One-Eyed Jacks, Marlon Brando used it, as did Eli
Wallach in 1966's The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Directors may prefer
the style because it makes it easier to see both the weapon and the
actor's face in a tight camera shot. 

While the New York Post reported that Martinez's side grip caused the
gun to "stovepipe"�that's when the spent casing gets caught in the
ejection port, jamming the weapon�it's unlikely that the horizontal
orientation caused the failure. In theory, tilting a gun
sideways�90-degrees counter-clockwise for a right-handed shooter�means
that gravity works against the ejection of the spent casing. As a
practical matter, however, gravity is so weak compared to the force of
the ejection that jamming is no more frequent in the sideways position
than in the customary one. The more likely cause of the jam was
Martinez's choice of weapon and ammunition. The MAC-10 is prone to
stovepiping�a problem that's exacerbated by the use of hollow-point
bullets, which may become deformed and scrape the inside of the barrel,
or underpowered ammunition, which can slow the slide and throw off the
mechanism's timing. 

While the side grip does not increase the risk of stovepiping, it is
terrible for aim. It's extremely difficult to properly use the
top-mounted sight on a handgun that is turned sideways. Not that this
matters much to the average street criminal. According to an FBI study,
60 percent of them don't even use the sight. Aiming a gun sideways has
long been shorthand for risky, indiscriminate shooting. The title
character in George Washington Cable's 1894 novel John March,
Southerner, exclaims, "No man shall come around here aiming his gun
sideways; endangering the throngs of casual bystanders!" 

During the first half of the 20th century, soldiers used the side grip
for the express purpose of endangering throngs of people. Some automatic
weapons from this era�like the Mauser C96 or the grease gun�fired so
quickly or with such dramatic recoil that soldiers found it impossible
to aim anything but the first shot. Soldiers began tilting the weapons,
so that the recoil sent the gun reeling in a horizontal rather than
vertical arc, enabling them to spray bullets into an onrushing enemy
battalion instead of over their heads. 

Nowadays, the only time professionals use the side grip is while holding
riot shields, which limit their field of vision. Turning the gun and
raising it up make the sight slightly more visible.