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Usage of a '''firearm as a ]''' is encountered in various situations. Examples include '''butt-stroking''' (sriking with the butt of a rifle)<ref>, '']''</ref> and '''pistol-whipping''' (beating someone with pistol)<ref>, ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''</ref>. |
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==Pistol whipping== |
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"Pistol-whipping" and "to pistol-whip" were reported as "new words" of ] in 1955, with cited usages from 1940s.<ref>"Fifty Years Among the New Words: by John Algeo, , from vol. 30 (1955), no. 4 of the ''], the journal of the ]</ref> However both the term and the practice traces back to the ] of 1800s. ] notes that a Westerner clubbing an opponent with the butt of a gun held by its barrel, seen in some ]s, is a wrong picture, for several reasons: this would rendered the gun useless for its primary purpose, danger of unintentional discharge, and loss of precious time to cane the grip. Instead, pictol whipping (also known as '''buffaloing''') was done with the long and heavy barrel of the gun held in an ordinary manner.<ref>''The Trampling Herd: The Story of the Cattle Range in America'' by Paul Iselin Wellman (1988) ISBN 0803297238, </ref> |
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Pistol whipping may leave unusual lacerations on the body of the injured due to various protruding details of the pistol. <ref>, in ''Forensic Pathology'', by David Dolinak, Evan W. Matshes, Emma O. Lew, 2006, ISBN 0122199510, p. 185 </ref> |
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