Horizontal Sweep

Definition

A firearm technique where you let the recoil of each shot naturally guide your gun to the next target, creating a sweeping pattern of fire. Tactically questionable and cinematically awesome, but definitely not recommended outside action movies.

Example Usage

The action hero used a horizontal sweep to take out the warehouse full of bad guys in one continuous motion.

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