Right-Handed Left-Handed Guns: Difference between revisions
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== Film ==
* [http://www.good-fun.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-On-Stranger-Tides-Wallpaper-10.jpg This]{{Dead link}} promotional poster shows [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack Sparrow]] dual-weilding a pair of flintlock pistols, one left-handed and one right-handed. Similar to cartridge ejection, the side the mechanism is on ejects a plume of smoke and sparks. Bearing that in mind, closer inspection shows he is holding them in the ''wrong hands'' - i.e. the left-handed gun in his right hand and vice versa. While this may be [[Rule of Cool]], [[Fridge Brilliance]] is in effect when you consider that, from this position, firing both guns simultaneously would send a blast of smoke forwards. It is entirely within Jack Sparrow's [[Badass]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] [[Confusion Fu]] [[Technical Pacifist]] nature to use this type of trick to create a smokescreen and quite completely surprise whoever he's facing.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The M16, while not deliberately ambidextrous, is quite easy for a left-hander to use.
** The Canadian C7 redesign featured a number of improvements over the M16, including an ejector port deflector and ambidextrous controls for left-handed shooters. These features were eventually worked into the M16A2.
* For years, Remington has been making [
* Played straight in real life: The M1 Garand and Short Magazine Lee-Enfield from [[World War II]] both had scopes that were mounted to the left of the receiver, rather than above like most other scoped weapons, so as not to block the insertion (or, in the case of the Garand, ejection) of their clips when the user needed to reload.
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