" Be warned, gentlemen. I possess a revolver and am an expert shot!"
Holmes accepted this news gravely and informed the man that while he understood that an exchange of pistol fire to be something in the nature of an introductory courtesy in Texas, in England it was still considered impolitic to support one's cause by letting off guns in the house. This I found a little hypocritical from one given to target practice in the parlor! "

― Michael Moorcock , Tales from the Texas Woods