Both guns are used separately on different targets.The first variant is most often used with pistols or other non-automatic weapons, while the second variant is usually employed if the shooter is using automatic weapons. The shooter either pulls one trigger and then the other in rapid fire succession (commonly called "Woo Style" for its use by characters in John Woo movies), or pulls both triggers at the same time on a single target. Both guns are used for concentrated fire on one target at a time.There are several ways to use Guns Akimbo: Sometimes the character has two special guns, with individual names and special properties, hearkening back to the samurai stories about named swords with special enchantments. In Anime, as in much of Asian action cinema, especially Heroic Bloodshed movies, this trope is one of the primary elements of the art of Gun Fu, and the two-gun fighter in these media is often very skilled, able to pick off multiple targets with pinpoint accuracy and able to use his guns as melee weapons as well as other crazy things one would not normally be able to do with a gun. Also, accuracy of any kind is rather hard to achieve with two guns, and most times, you'll be lucky if you hit anything you're aiming for at all. Police characters generally use a proper technique, and fire one handgun with both hands. The two-gun fighter is usually a destructive psycho with no regard for collateral damage, particularly Two Uzi Guy. In police oriented shows, procedurals and action shows alike, this trope is largely a villain trait. After break action revolvers and speed-loaders came around, one gun could do all the work.
As a matter of fact, real people in these times often wore entire bandoleers of a couple dozen Throw-Away Guns strapped to their body. In The Old West and The Cavalier Years, carrying two pistols was a practical result of long reload times on muzzle-loaders (although they were never used for suppressive fire like in the trope) as well as percussion revolvers and Single Action Revolvers that were loaded one cartridge at a time. Usually the two-gun fighter is just that much better than his opponents, that he can draw two guns in the time it takes them to draw one. This trope is a standard feature of The Western. If the weapons of choice are fully automatic machine pistols, like Ingram SMGs or Micro-Uzis, bonus points. Slow-mo leaping and dodging with Bullet Time effects not required, but helpful. Especially when the shooter nails two different targets with one noisy, confusing volley. Double-fisted firing of handguns just plain looks cool. As far back as the westerns of the '50s, The Gunslinger has often strapped on two pistols.
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