#i dont know if jonny sims knew thag he was not just being normal flagrant but *incredibly* dangerously so (if it were real)

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Image One: a photo of Jonny Sims and Tim Ledsam in costume as Jonny d’Ville and Gunpowder Tim of the Mechanisms, pointing handguns at each other while outside. Tim is holding a gun with a longer wider barrel and has his non-dominant hand on the forearm (part under the barrel). Jonny is holding a more typical handgun with a single hand and his shoulders unsquared (his torso is not facing where he is pointing the gun).

Image Two: a screencap of tags reading “#hes lived long enough to learn techniques we could never dream of #hes on another level”

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ALRIGHT [caps reads: alright], so, Tim is actually holding his gun here better than Jonny is. You should be supporting your handgun with two hands (as long as you have two functional hands). Jonny’s shoulders aren’t square; obviously, if they were really trying to shoot each other, aiming wouldn’t be too difficult because they are so close, but Jonny here is very much being *dramatic,* which is not surprising. Now, while Tim’s gun is a handgun, yes, the length of it gives plenty of room to hold it the way he is. And, more importantly, IMO, he is holding it with two hands! Which also makes sense, because he is the gunner. His gun looks to me to be of a higher caliber, which would give it greater recoil and would make holding it the way he is make more sense because of the longer barrel. It has the length, he might as well use it to support it as best as he can!

This was how I felt upon seeing this originally, but I checked with my dad, who knows more about guns than I do, and he agreed. He was however, bothered that Tim’s finger is on the trigger, and even after explaining that these *must* be fake guns, he still didn’t like it, because of real life gun safety logic (which is still a good point, though I’m not going to get into it here).

So TL;DR: if anyone is holding a gun incorrectly in this photo, it is Jonny, not Tim.

Why is he holding the pistol like a rifle