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== Handguns and Other Small Arms ==
 
'''MOD NOTE: Before adding a handgun (and handgun refers to pistols, revolvers, and pistol-styled SMG weapons), unless it is of a VERY high caliber where it would be illogical and/or dangerous to the shooter to fire one-handed, it does NOT need to be added here unless there are other circumstances making one-handed fire unusual. High caliber refers to calibers such as .50AE, .500 Smith and Wesson, and similar. If not sure, look it up first. '''
 
=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', Kiritsugu holds his Contender thus, despite the whole "firing [[Magic Bullets|magic rifle bullets]]" thing.
* In ''[[Noir]]'', Kirika does this frequently, and the directors even say that they specifically chose her weapon (a Beretta M1934) precisely so she could fire it with one hand.
** It may also be something to do with the fact that [[James Bond]] used to carry one of those as well.
* [[Madlax]], a character from the same creators, does the same thing with her two SIGs. She also goes for [[Guns Akimbo]] on regular basis - a vast improvement in [[Rule of Cool|coolness]] since Kirika's lone Hong Kong stairway scene.
* In ''[[Gundam Wing]]: Endless Waltz'', Heero twirls a gun one-handed and later threatens to shoot someone, still going onehanded. He doesn't actually fire the gun, but it's still one-handed use.
* In the booklet of ''[[Audio Adaptation|StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'', all art of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'''s Teana with the [[Hand Cannon|Cross Mirage's Blazer Mode]] show her wielding it one-handed. A little weird since she usually uses her gun with two hands when she's not going [[Guns Akimbo]] or using her other hand for something else.
* Darcia from ''[[Wolf's Rain]]'' wields a pistol in one hand against {{spoiler|Quent}} even when {{spoiler|Toboe}} intervenes and latches onto his gun holding arm. He {{spoiler|shakes him off and shoots Quent anyway.}}
* General Cross Marian from [[D.Gray-man]] uses a gun-like Innocence called Judgement. The cool thing about the bullets is that they won't stop moving until they reach their target, so if opponent deflects the bullets the first time, the bullet will come back and hit them again.
* Subverted in ''[[DOGS Bullets and Carnage]]''. Mihai chastises Ian to "stop trying to look cool" and hold his gun in two hands when he sees him practicing with a one-handed grip.
 
=== Comic Books ===
* Invoked and subverted in ''[[Queen and Country]]'': Russian gangsters hired to kill Tara Chace fire their guns one-handed; most of their bullets hit nothing, and one unlucky goon catches a stray bullet from his ally.
 
=== Film ===
* The T-800 from ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator 2: Judgement Day]]'' does this multiple times due to being a super-strong robot. Examples include in the canal chase sequence (where he shoots and cocks a shotgun one-handed) and his firing of a grenade launcher at Cyberdyne Systems (to disable multiple police cars).
* None of the many Desert Eagles in the ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movies is ever fired two-handed. And yes, this does require the [[Rule of Cool]] to keep those [[Hand Cannon]]s from ripping people's wrists off like they would usually do in [[Real Life]].▼
* At one point in ''Tombstone,'' Wyatt Earp blows away a fleeing enemy with a double-barreled shotgun, one-handed, while riding on a horse at full gallop.
* A military example is seen near the end of ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', {{spoiler|when Captain Miller is mortally wounded during the German siege of the bridge held by Ryan and company. As a Panzer Tiger inches ominously across the bridge, Miller can do nothing but fire his pistol in pure spite. The tank explodes...thanks to the American planes blasting through the sky.}}
* [[James Bond]] frequently fires one-handed due to the fact that his preferred weapon for most of the films is a Walther PPK in .32ACP.
* ''The Killer'' has Chow Yun Fat firing his Taurus handgun one-handed for most of the movie [[Guns Akimbo|except when he picks up two guns.]]
▲* None of the many Desert Eagles in the ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movies is ever fired two-handed. And yes, this does require the [[Rule of Cool]] to keep those [[Hand Cannon]]s from ripping people's wrists off like they would do in [[Real Life]].
* All the characters in ''[[The Matrix]]'' fire all manner of weapons one-handed, sometimes while performing various acrobatics, including one character who at one point dual-wields a pair of drum-fed automatic shotguns. This is all possible because it's happening in the Matrix, where the characters can bend the laws of physics.
* [[Dirty Harry]] fires his famous .44 Magnum one handed. He must be pretty strong, considering that it's "the most powerful handgun in the world."
* The hitman in ''[[Machete]]'' fires his assault rifle with one hand, and seems to have better accuracy than the goons who hold their rifles with both.
 
=== Literature ===
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** This goes so far, in that Roland uses [[Guns Akimbo|a revolver per hand]] before above happens. It goes so far that he draws, shoots, (probably) cocks the gun, and even reloads with one hand per gun, one bullet at a time.
*** [[Improbable Aiming Skills|And never misses.]]
* ''Rainbow 6'' has the main characters using a two handed stance, but at one point their pilot hits the pistol range to blow off steam and uses a one handed side-on stance. It's realistically portrayed as being a lot less accurate, but he's older than the other shooters and apparently that's how he was trained back in the day (whether this matches with actual historical training practices I have no idea).
* Fontaine, from ''[[William Gibson|All Tomorrow's Parties]]'' does target shooting with a small calibre revolver, holding in it one hand.
* Discussed in the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''Teeth Of The Tiger'', in which one of the protagonists expresses a preference for firing one-handed whilst standing side-on to the target, on the grounds that this presents a narrower profile and makes him harder to hit. Whether this makes up for the reduced accuracy (his preferred sidearm is a .45ACP weapon) is a matter for opinion.
 
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* ''[[Blake's 7]]'', justified most of the time by the fact they're using directed-energy weapons.
* In ''[[Torchwood]]'', Captain Jack Harkness teaches WPC Gwen Cooper to shoot this way rather than the modern two-handed technique, though it may just have been an excuse to [[Covert Pervert|feel her behind]].
* In the Green Beret vs Spetsnaz episode of ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', the Spetsnaz representative is shown using the Makarov pistol one-handed while navigating a nighttime target course with night vision goggles on.
* This was tested on ''[[MythBusters]]'', and found to be reasonably accurate in comparison to the classic two-handed "Weaver" technique, and ''far'' more accurate than shooting from the hip or using [[Gangsta Style]].
* ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', Rick tends to fire his [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolver]] this way.
 
=== Tabletop Games ===
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* Ashelin from ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' usually wields her handgun single-handedly, as does Veger.
* In ''[[Boktai]]'', both Django and Aaron fire their smaller Solar Guns one-handed during normal gameplay. During the cutscene where Aaron fires his first shot, he uses both hands; the resulting shot is [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|so powerful that it]] ''[[Gameplay and Story Segregation|goes through]]'' [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|the skeleton he was firing at]]... wait, change that. The shot was big enough to annihilate the skeleton and ''keep on going''!
* Ellis in ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2'' holds single pistols one-handed.
* Shepard in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' uses two hands in combat, but only one when s/he wants to look cool (like at a photo op) or is threatening someone.
* In Marathon, the main character holds the pistol and the fusion pistol in one hand.
* ''[[Soldier of Fortune]]'s'' Desert Eagle-lookalike [[Hand Cannon]] is fired one-handed.
* In ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half Life]]'', Gordon Freeman holds his trusty low-powered, low-recoil Glock 17/Beretta M9 two-handed, but somehow fires the high-power, high recoil Colt Python revolver with one hand. In ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' it's reversed, with the USP Match held one-handed and the Python held two-handed. It just goes to show that [[Revolvers Are Just Better]].
** But he is wearing his HEV suit, which is essentially [[Powered Armor]].
* Nero in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' fires a double-barrel revolver in which the caliber is almost that of a Smith & Wesson Model 500 revolver with ''one hand''. Revolvers of that size are normally shot with TWO hands to brace for recoil. Can be justified by him being a quarter-demon with [[Super Strength|superhuman strength]], much like Dante.
* Saika Magoichi from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' fires her flintlock pistols one-handed at all times and has impeccable aim. Thankfully all her other guns she holds with two.
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