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* [[Doc Savage]] doesn't normally carry a gun (his reasoning is that anyone who carries a gun comes to depend on it and is thus less effective when disarmed). That doesn't stop him from using one when necessary (with the obligatory [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]).

** It also doesn't stop him from travelling around with an arsenal of automatic weapons and grenades, and hauling them out whenever he's expecting serious resistance. Doc's policy is to not ''routinely'' carry guns, as he feels confident of arranging his everyday self-defense needs without them.<ref>Given that the man is six-feet-six and about 250 lbs. of pure muscle and has approximately nineteen black belts, his confidence is entirely justified.</ref> But if he's preparing to go on an assault vs. a fortified enemy position, he'll bring whatever amount of firepower he thinks the job requires.

** It's also important to note that Doc Savage lives in New York City, which had already banned concealed-carry ''decades'' before any other jurisdiction in the US had started to. While the police politely turn a blind eye to Doc's activities due to all the goodwill his prior services have built up, Doc is well aware that his actions are still technically illegal and that it's only polite for him to not push the boundaries unless he has an immediate need to.

* Jay (Popinjay) Ackroyd of ''[[Wild Cards]]'' hates guns. Of course when you can teleport people anywhere just by pointing at them that's not really an issue.

* In ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]'', the honor code of vampires and vampanezes forbids them to use guns; they feel that guns are for cowards. The problem is circumvented by hiring regular humans as soldiers.