History Main / RightHandedLeftHandedGuns

* ''CounterStrike'' may have started this trope. The modeler for the game was apparently left-handed and wanted to play the game like that. So he created a technically anatomically correct gun. However, since playing with a left handed gun is confusing for most of the right handed world, they added an option for a right handed model. Of course, to save time and resources, they basically [[AmbidextrousSprite mirrored the gun model]].

* ''CounterStrike'' may have started this Trope. The modeler for the game was apparently left handed and wanted to play the game like that. So he created a technically anatomically correct gun. However, since playing with a left handed gun is confusing for most of the right handed world, they added an option for a right handed model. Of course, to save time and resources, they basically [[AmbidextrousSprite mirrored the gun model]].
** It's particularly noticable on the Steyr Aug ([[{{Aka47}} Bullpup]]), which is equipped with an asymmetrical scope, and thus using the scope would require holding it in a [[GangstaStyle very awkward position]] indeed.

A trope starting to crop up in videogames, in which a firearm is clearly not designed to be used in the hand it's being held in; since all FPS protagonists are right handed, this has them holding left-handed guns. Or when wielding GunsAkimbo, a left-handed gun in the right hand and right-handed gun in the left.

* ''CounterStrike'' is believed to have started this Trope. The modeler for the game was apparently left handed and wanted to play the game like that. So he created a technically anatomically correct gun. However, since playing with a left handed gun is confusing for most of the right handed world, they added an option for a right handed model. Of course, to save time and resources, they basically [[AmbidextrousSprite mirrored the gun model]].

* ''CounterStrike'' is reported to start this Trope. The modeler for the game was apparently left handed and wanted to play the game like that. So he created a technically anatomically correct gun. However, since playing with a left handed gun is confusing for most of the right handed world, they added an option for a right handed model. Of course, to save time and resources, they basically [[AmbidextrousSprite mirrored the gun model]].

* HaloReach's DMR ejects spent cases to the right, but the cocking handle (?) is on the left and visibly slides back and forth with each shot, putting the user's face in danger if he should ever look down the sight when firing.

* Strangely inverted with ModernWarfare and the sequel - some guns have NO ejection port at all on their models, usually because they're on the right side of the gun, and even when aiming down the sight you wouldn't see that side of the gun.

* ''FarCry 2'' goes to a ridiculous extent with this, doing it even when it results in a horribly awkward animation (a Springfield with a lefty bolt) or really wouldn't matter (the upward-ejecting Desert Eagle has the barrel lock swapped). Even the PKM (which already ejects to the left) is mirrored, this time so the belt is more visible. Also, the player yanks on the AR-16 charging bolt every time he reloads.

* Strangely inverted with ModernWarfare and the sequel - some guns have NO ejection port at all on their models.

* AK series weapons have an ejection port on the right side that is far enough away from the shooter so that you can shoot it lefty. However, all the controls are on the right...

** Averted also in Medal of Honor: Underground

* Zigzagged in the ''Bad Company'' spinoffs for the ''BattlefieldSeries''. The some weapons are modeled properly, while some are modeled weirdly.
** A great example from an earlier Battlefield is in Battlefield Vietnam, where the Vietcong's bolt action rife is left-handed, requiring the player character to do a (totally freakin' sweet) action to work the bolt.

* {{Halo}}: Reach's DMR ejects spent cases to the right, but the cocking handle (?) is on the left and visibly slides back and forth with each shot, putting the user's face in danger if he should ever look down the sight when firing.

* Left 4 Dead 2, the German exclusive snipers are both bolt actions with the bolt handles on the weapons left side but are held right handed.

* Fire a Napoleonic musket on the left hand side and you'll find a quite large amount of gunpowder explode in the pan centimetres from your eyeball

** The german army G36 standard assault rifle is designed to be used by right- and left-handed soldiers. The ejector is on the right side of the weapon, but a good distance away from the optics, so that a left-handed shooter won't be hit in the face by the casings. Also it has a symmetric grip and the safety-switch on BOTH sides of the grip, so that it can easily be operated from the left hand. It is, however, more difficult for a left-handed soldier to carry the rifle, as it misses a hole for the carrying belt on the right side of the weapon, but this is mainly to avoid interference of the belt with the ejector.

* Fire a napoleonic musket on the left hand side and you'll find a quite large amount of gunpowder explode in the pan centimetres from your eyeball

A trope starting to crop up in videogames, in which a firearm is clearly not designed to be used in the hand it's being held in; since all FPS protagonists are right handed, this has them holding left-handed guns.

* ''FarCry 2'' goes to a ridiculous extent with this, doing it even when it results in a horribly awkward animation (a Springfield with a lefty bolt) or really wouldn't matter (the upward-ejecting Desert Eagle has the barrel lock swapped). Even the PKM (which already ejects to the left) is mirrored, this time so the belt is more visible.