We absolutely do NOT use piercing guns. Piercing guns are extremely un-safe as they can not be properly sterilized or sanitized (sterilized is the complete removal of bacteria to make it sterile. Sanitized is to disinfect the surface). Piercing guns use force with a blunt object to force through tissue (and cartilage in some cases) by using a spring loaded mechanism, which causes bacteria from all previous clients to spray forward into the fresh wound. Piercing with a single use sterile hypodermic piercing needle carefully pierces through the tissue and removes a small amount of tissue rather than forcing a blunt object through skin, which provides clean edges and less trauma, hurts less and as the needle was sterile - contains no irritants or bacteria to cause infections. Piercing guns should NEVER be used and no reputable business should ever use one. Do NOT get pierced using a gun in any circumstance.