RIHANNA GETS GUN TATTOOS!

Five months after Rihanna was allegedly beaten up by Chris Brown, the artist went out and got two gun tattoos on either side of her rib cage, according to Los Angeles-based tattoo artist BangBang.

The 21-year-old singer -- who often wears a miniature gun pendant necklace – first had him draw two guns on the lower part of her shoulders, but she decided not to get inked there because of her contract with Cover girl.

BangBang put two pictures of Rihanna up on his MySpace page. The first showed the guns drawn near her shoulders, along with the caption: "I really wanted to put it here [on her arms]... She loved 'em. But, Cover Girl wouldn’t have liked it much... and they pay the bills!"