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* [[Defied]] by the Rebel Alliance in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]. The ''New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology'' mentions that Rebel soldiers were well known for practicing safe firearms usage, including modifying every blaster that came into their possession to have a safety if it didn't already.

** Verbally [[Deconstructed]] in the novella ''Side Trip'' by [[Timothy Zahn]] and [[Michael A Stackpole]], which features a customized weapon called a "hotshot". This is a blaster with the ''trigger guard cut off''. Supposedly the idea is along the lines of [[Gangsta Style]] (looks cool but is a bad idea), but the narrator mentions that anyone who knows anything about [[Gun Safety]] can see why removal of the trigger guard is a bad idea.

** Also played with "Han Solo's Revenge". Han, who is an experienced gunman, deliberately removes the trigger guard of his blaster before stepping out onto an alien planet. However, its averted in that a) he knows this is not normally safe to do, b) he intends to put the trigger guard back on as soon as he's finished, and c) the only reason he's doing it is because he can't fire his weapon while wearing an environment suit glove ~~with~~ the trigger guard on, he can't survive the outside conditions without an environment suit, and there is a distinct possibility of being attacked sometime in the next five minutes.

** Also played with "Han Solo's Revenge". Han, who is an experienced gunman, deliberately removes the trigger guard of his blaster before stepping out onto an alien planet. However, its averted in that a) he knows this is not normally safe to do, b) he intends to put the trigger guard back on as soon as he's finished, and c) the only reason he's doing it is because he can't fire his weapon while wearing an environment suit glove without removing the trigger guard first, he can't survive the outside conditions without an environment suit, and there is a distinct possibility of being attacked sometime in the next five minutes.

* The [[Dragaera]] novels have [[Fantasy Gun Control]], but Vlad still lampshades this trope when he watches a crowd of armed political protesters in ''Teckla'', and notices one of them ''hugging'' another while holding a razor-sharp sickle. It was blind luck the man didn't cut his fellow-activist's throat.