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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Next time you go to an arcade that offers 2-player shooting games, and the guns can be operated 1-handed (aka reload by shooting the bottom of the screen, not pump action), load quarters into both and see how easy it is to aim and track targets. Now imagine if both guns had ''actual recoil'', let alone the noise.
* A possible example of actual use of two guns firing at the same time is "Macedonian Shooting", practiced by Russian special forces. This evolved as a method of [[More Dakka|increasing rate of fire]], more in order to force the enemy to take cover than to try to accurately hit them, and was generally practiced by NKVD officers issued a pair of revolvers. If you don't believe me [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629175140/http://forums.specialistsmod.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24311 see for yourself.]
* A group of U.S.Army Soldiers decided to demonstrate Guns Akimbo and its dual-inherited [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Awesome but Impractical]] qualities on a firing range, with one Soldier '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCra4qOrjFw dual-wielding M-249 Squad Automatic Weapons]'''''. As they explicitly say in the video, this is very unsafe. Considering the recoil and sheer weight of those guns, the Soldier is a sheer [[Badass]] for ''even keeping his footing'' while he fired.
** Note that he's forced to take a few steps back while firing. And he carefully braces himself beforehand.
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