TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1348arrow-down12
arrow-up1346arrow-down1image"ok, imagine a gun."sh.itjust.worksTriflingToad@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squarelmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoI’d been told it was a gangster thing: passenger seat shoots out the window for a drive-by.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI thought it was a US police thing, because the passenger seat is where the shotgun is commonly holstered.
minus-squarelmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoThat makes a bit more sense if true. I don’t easily picture 1920s gangsters wielding shotguns for a drive-by.
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoThe correct answer afaik is stagecoach, but tbf Clyde Barrow did use cut down Browning A5s in robberies. While I don’t have any information on whether or not they were fired from a moving vehicle, it could have happened.
I’d been told it was a gangster thing: passenger seat shoots out the window for a drive-by.
I thought it was a US police thing, because the passenger seat is where the shotgun is commonly holstered.
That makes a bit more sense if true. I don’t easily picture 1920s gangsters wielding shotguns for a drive-by.
The correct answer afaik is stagecoach, but tbf Clyde Barrow did use cut down Browning A5s in robberies. While I don’t have any information on whether or not they were fired from a moving vehicle, it could have happened.