If you use a piercing gun, you might as well shove a bacteria-ridden pin through your skin. This is especially harmful in piercings that take place in the cartilage. … No blunt force is used; instead, the needle slips smoothly through the skin, causing little trauma to the surrounding tissue.
Additionally, does Claire’s use a gun to pierce ears?
Claire’s started offering ear piercing services in 1978, several years after both Inverness and Studex introduced their own versions of the piercing gun.