Did Old West cowboys ever use a two-handed grip to fire their handguns? Dr. Byron LloydSnellville, Georgia Jim Roberts, top gun in Arizona’s storied Pleasant Valley War, used that stance on June 21, 1928, when two outlaws robbed the bank in Clarkdale. As they were speeding off in an automobile town marshal Roberts pulled his pistol and—using two hands—shot the driver in the head. He was nearly 70 at the time, and that was his last gunfight. I would guess quite a number of lawmen preferred
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