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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"If you get a customer, or an employee, who thinks he's [[Charles Bronson]], take the butt of your gun and smash their nose in. Everybody jumps. He falls down screaming, blood squirts out of his nose, nobody says fucking shit after that."''
|'''Mr. White''', ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''}}
[[Tap on the Head|Knocking someone out by hitting them]] with the butt of a pistol. When done with a long gun (e.g. rifle or shotgun), it is referred to as a "Butt Stroke", or "Butt Stroking". (Rest assured, [http://www.superdickery.com/its-been-a-long-time-since-i-was-butt-stroked/ some people] have had a [[Having a Gay Old Time|gay old time]] with ''that'' bit of terminology.)
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One purpose of Pistol Whipping is to humiliate your captured enemy (or moronic henchman). You've got a gun, and you could kill them right there, but they're so insignificant, so pathetic, so helpless, that you can just smash them across the face and be done with it. It also causes a lot of bleeding, making a character look a lot worse than they really are. It is also possible to damage or break the magazine or handle of the weapon, depending on the model and the force of the blow.
[[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]], you ask? As Elliot Stabler of ''[[Law
A rare case of the [[Evil Overlord List]] ''not'' reflecting common sense, as nearly all modern militaries train their troops in how to fight using their rifle as a melee weapon (although it might be that the Evil Overlord just hates it when henchmen Pistol Whip the Hero ''rather'' than shoot him). This was also fairly common during the time periods where firearms were not very advanced and required a lot of time and effort to reload which meant that sometimes it was more prudent to use your gun as a melee weapon rather than trying to reload it in the middle of battle.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Train Hartnett of ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' has basically turned this into a fine art. Since he's chosen not to kill people, he's always clubbing them with his
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Acknowledged]] but advised against in the ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' manga. Revy is chastised by her gunsmith when he notices minor damage done to one of her weapon's grips caused when she smashed a guy's face in with it. Revy has no intention of stopping though.
* Early in the second season of [[Strike Witches]], Gertrude's two heavy machine guns run out of ammo, so she grabs them by the barrels and uses them as melee weapons.
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