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* In ''Film/FortyFive'', Big Al makes Kat carry a pair of automatics thrust into the waistband of her miniskirt so that he is not caught carrying by the police. Later, the hooded figure who steals Big Al's .45 stuffs into the front of their jeans.

* ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen''. Our JetPack-wearing hero tucks his RayGun in his belt, regardless of the risk of it falling out while he's flying or brawling with villains.

* ''Series/GetSmart'': Max puts his gun in his pants. It goes off, he turns around, you hear the sound of him pulling his zipper down and up again, and he then turns around again with his catchphrase "Missed it by ''that'' much".

* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': In ''Tempest Revealed'', Tempest carries a gun in the side string of her bikini bottoms.

* In the HeroesRUs series ''Soldiers of Barrabas'' a CIA man notices that one of the men kidnapping him has a cocked Colt .45 [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety with the grip safety taped down]] shoved in the front of his pants. He later gets kicked in the crotch, causing the gun to discharge with [[GroinAttack inevitable consequences]].

* ''The Takers'' by Jerry Ahern. Gun writer Jeff Culhane tells his girlfriend, reporter M. F. Mulrooney, that their latest adventure might be somewhat dangerous. She replies, "Hey, I'm prepared" and then takes a minute rummaging through her huge purse for her .38 pistol. Culhane replies, "[[SarcasmMode Yeah, and I like that quick draw too.]]"

* In the Netflix show ''Series/Narcos'' and its spinoff ''Narcos: Mexico'', everyone from traffickers and local police to DEA agents shoves their pistols in their belts and pants. Especially obvious in enforcer characters like La Quica and Ramón Arellano Felix.
* Frank Castle sticks a handgun into the front of his pants while interrogating somebody in an episode of ''Series/ThePunisher2017'', despite being a trained Marine who should really know better... [[spoiler:which he does. [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets He knows the gun is empty]] and he's putting it there as SchmuckBait for his victim.]]

* ''Series/GetSmart'': Max puts his gun in his pants. It goes off, he turns around, you hear the sound of him pulling his zipper down and up again, and he then turns around again with his CatchPhrase "Missed it by ''that'' much".

** Eddie Dean also makes use of the trope, stuffing one of Roland's revolvers down his pants as he and Susannah try to escape from a band of Pubes in ''The Waste Lands.'' Lampshaded, as the narration describes Eddie as "feeling like a cut-rate Superman" as he tries to manage both the gun and his underwear while dodging a dozen or so armed lunatics at a dead run with a bilateral amputee riding on his shoulders.

When a character stores or conceals a weapon, typically a gun, in a place which is not suited for such a purpose, typically the waistband or sometimes pants pocket. There, or loose in a civilian briefcase. Anywhere but a holster. Often as not, the safety isn't on and the gun is loaded, too. Perhaps it's another source of the term "going off half-cocked".

Although aversions aren't uncommon, the weapons rarely fall down the pants leg (provided you are wearing a belt or pants at least as sturdy as blue jeans), and only occasionally will the weapon accidentally discharge and injure someone in an intimate place. As of the 1950s the actions of firearms sold to civilians are required to be "drop-safe", so the not going off part is TruthInTelevision. Even when the weapon is drawn suddenly, like for combat, and leaves the pants with the user's finger on the trigger, it typically only happens for comedic purposes. Because what's funnier than someone shooting themselves in the foot? [[ShotInTheAss That's]] [[GroinAttack right.]]

* Behold [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spyboy3.jpg the cover]] of ''ComicBook/SpyBoy'' #3! The cover of the ''Spy-School Confidential'' trade is similar, but with Spygirl and a sai instead of Bombshell and a gun.

* ''Film/FortyGuns'': When Griff first goes to face Brockie, he has just got out of the bath. Not having his holster, he shoves his revolver down the front of pants. Fortunately, he does not need to draw it till he is close enough to Brockie to [[PistolWhipping pistol whip]] him.

* ''Film/JaneGotAGun'': When the first outlaw approaches the farm, Dan tucks his revolver down the back of his trousers so he he can walk out to meet him while appearing unarmed.

* ''Film/LetsGetHarry'': A group of construction workers, financed by a gung-ho businessman and advised by a mercenary, go down to Columbia to rescue a colleague. The mercenary, who's given them strict instructions not to try bringing guns into the country, walks into their hotel room, grabs the businessman by the crotch and says, "I want you to give me this." While the others are gaping at this apparent HoYay, the businessman gives a shamefaced grin and produces a 9mm pistol from his underpants.
* ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'' uses this trope in reverse. Charlie's spymaster-handler tells her that his hideout gun is always stashed at his crotch in front, because it's a place few bad guys search. The ploy doesn't do him any good, because he gets killed right away. However, it works for her because the body is tied up next to her, as she's being tortured, and she's able to retrieve the gun to use on an unsuspecting Mook. Not to mention Mitch defying the trope [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace for the obvious reason]].

* In ''Film/PulpFiction'', Vince and Jules both carry their guns in their waistbands after having to lose their suits to blood splatter. Vince's in particular can be seen pointing straight at his crotch in the final scene of the film. However it is very in-character for Vincent. There's a reason he's the trope namer for IJustShotMarvinInTheFace...

* ''Film/SharkysMachine'': Sharky is being tortured by DirtyCop Smiley, but suddenly he slams the table up against Smiley's face, grabs the gun tucked into the front of Smiley's pants and shoots him in the stomach with it.

** Eddie Dean also makes use of the trope, stuffing one of Roland's revolvers down his pants as he and Susannah try to escape from a band of Pubes in ''The Waste Lands.'' Lampshaded, as the narration describes Eddie as "feeling like a cut-rate Superman" as he tries to manage both the gun and his underwear, while dodging a dozen or so armed lunatics at a dead run with a bilateral amputee riding on his shoulders.

* ''Literature/PatriotGames'', by Creator/TomClancy, features Jack Ryan absentmindedly shoving a loaded handgun down his waistband, with the safety off and the hammer cocked.[[note]]As in an inadvertent bump would be all that was needed to set it off, ending his line at Sally and Jack Jr.[[/note]] Gunny Breckenridge takes the gun out, puts the safety on and gives it back.
* In the ''Literature/RiftwarCycle'' novel ''Silverthorn'', Jimmy stores a looted dagger this way, and ends up with a nasty gut wound later on because of it.

** ''Literature/StarWarsAllegiance'' has Han Solo's blaster confiscated by the Hand of Judgment. A chapter or so later Luke gives him a tiny hold-out blaster. When they confront the Hand of Judgment again and Han doesn't feel like shooting, largely because he's outnumbered by stormtroopers who have much bigger blasters, he starts to slip the hold-out into the usual holster, but realizes that it would get lost in there and he'd have to fumble for it, so it goes into his waistband.

* In the [[Recap/BlackMirrorFifteenMillionMerits second episode]] of ''Series/BlackMirror'' one character hides a large shard of glass down his trousers, secured by the elastic waist-band, you can just see it poking out the rear. What's interesting is that he then does a very vigorous dance-routine and it stays perfectly in place.

** The "trained spy" thing makes this less justified, not more. There are choices beyond carrying openly and sticking a gun unprotected into one's pants. A trained spy would know how carry a concealed weapon safely.

* Averted in an episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' when Sam takes a gun off an enraged husband, and then shoots himself in the butt while trying to put it in his back pocket.
* Played straight in ''Series/{{Chuck}}''. Sarah, a highly trained CIA spy, keeps her full size S&W 5906 in the rear waist of her shorts/jeans. Shots of her reaching for this weapon (about half the time false alarms) are too numerous to count, but none of these shots involve a holster.

* On ''Series/TheColbertReport'' Stephen breaks every single rule of gun safety (whispering sweet nothings into the barrel, etc.) with [[ICallItVera Sweetness]]. This trope gets subverted one episode when the gun goes off in his pants. Fortunately, the bullet ricochets off his BallsOfSteel and kills an audience member instead.

* ''Series/MythBusters'': Jamie Hyneman knows how to handle firearms, but during the PinballProjectile test he's clearly seen on-camera with the test handgun shoved in the back of his waistband. Hopefully we can [[ExecutiveMeddling blame the director]] for that one.

* In the pilot of ''Series/SomethingIsOutThere'', Ta'Ra has her RayGun tucked into the back of her jeans. As she's loading stuff into the trunk of a car, the women she's with sees it, removes it, and while examining the gun inadvertantly shoots several bystanders (fortunately the weapon is set to stun). Ta'Ra's shown to be a [[KlingonsLoveShakespeare fan of at least one human cop show]] so she probably learned this bad habit there.

* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' Irish walks around with his gun in the front of his pants, pointing directly at his crotch. [[spoiler: It is later revealed in the last news paper that Irish died by a self inflicted gun shot wound while drunk. One can only guess where he shot himself]]. The real funny thing is that the single-action revolvers in that time period still lacked much in the way of safeties, so that was actually fairly normal. Cowboys would open the loading gate on their revolvers and stick it in their pants, for example. The only way to shoot yourself is if you carried it around with all six rounds loaded and the hammer over a loaded chamber, which was a huge no-no at the time.

* Lamilton carries his grandmother's gun in the front of his pants waistband on ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', but he manages not to shot himself (or anyone else he doesn't intend to).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes", Homer becomes a bounty hunter and starts carrying a taser, which he shoves down the front of his pants because it looks cool. The results are predictable.