Fires and Holds

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Holds is an antonym for fires.

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Fires is an antonym for holds.

With only a couple exceptions, Bond holds and fires all of his weaponry using only one hand - even larger weapons like machine guns, shotguns, and yes, even the sniper rifle.

Source: Videogame / The World Is Not Enough
He also holds AND fires his twin guns upside-down... with his PINKIES.

Source: Gun Twirling
The first-person models for some pistols and smaller submachine guns in some of the later Call of Duty games suggest that the player character holds and fires them in this manner, though this is not the case in third-person.

Source: Firing One-Handed

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