@TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish • 15 days ago"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up1760arrow-down19
arrow-up1751arrow-down1image"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.works@TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish • 15 days agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-square@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglish3•15 days agoI’d been told it was a gangster thing: passenger seat shoots out the window for a drive-by.
minus-square@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•15 days agoI thought it was a US police thing, because the passenger seat is where the shotgun is commonly holstered.
minus-square@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-215 days agoThat makes a bit more sense if true. I don’t easily picture 1920s gangsters wielding shotguns for a drive-by.
minus-square@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink2•edit-214 days agoThe correct answer afaik is stagecoach, but tbf Clyde Barrow did use cut down Browning A5s in robberies. While I don’t have any information on whether or not they were fired from a moving vehicle, it could have happened.
minus-squareCaptain AggravatedlinkfedilinkEnglish2•14 days agoEvery American police car I’ve seen has the gun rack in the trunk.
minus-square@Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•14 days ago. Modern cop cars may be different.
I’d been told it was a gangster thing: passenger seat shoots out the window for a drive-by.
I thought it was a US police thing, because the passenger seat is where the shotgun is commonly holstered.
That makes a bit more sense if true. I don’t easily picture 1920s gangsters wielding shotguns for a drive-by.
The correct answer afaik is stagecoach, but tbf Clyde Barrow did use cut down Browning A5s in robberies. While I don’t have any information on whether or not they were fired from a moving vehicle, it could have happened.
Every American police car I’ve seen has the gun rack in the trunk.