User blog comment:DanielM4712/Why wasn't Stopping Power taken out?/@comment-1260687-20100221190553

No Gin, it wouldn't; it would produce a lateral "twisting" effect on the rest of your body if you were holding it straight out, and would push you back because you weren't in a proper stance to absorb the recoil, but it would NOT break your wrist; unless you're an effete ballerina with brittle bone disease.