Glad you enjoyed it.
That aim before shooting is not a bug, but a design choice that was forced upon me by time. Basically, without it, your gun is pointing at the ground, and the bullets are spawned from the gun, so they go directly into the ground. I would have liked to do hip hots, but I was overly ambitious making a 3rd person shooter instead of a first person shooter. I'd never made one before, and, well...I talk about those struggles in my devlogs at the bottom of the game page.
Thanks for playing. :)