"Why didn't he shoot the gun out of his hand...."

You just wasted the first round, are not on target center mass, and are most likely getting shot at right now.

Fucking TV Western Hollywood 50's 60's Hays Code bullshit like this because they couldn't show you killing the guy on a tv show, it was verboten.

So they winged the bad guy, or shot the gun out of his hand, or some other nonsense.

This is why liberals believe that first LE need to shoot the bad guy's gun out of his hand, or shoot them in the leg, or some other bullshit all the while the bad guy is shooting right at you doing his best to kill you.

No one tries doing trick shots while stopping a gunman and they didn't do in the Wild West either, they shot center mass and kept doing so until the fucker stopped moving or they ran out of rounds.

And in the Wild West most of the killing was done by ambush, bad guy and good guy alike.

No one was squaring off in the street, the sheriff would shoot the bad guy in the back as soon as he'd walk by and call it a day.