Definitely! And, honestly, I've been trying to do just that. I actually have it working (sort of), but I think I'm about to break what I have.
Why am I going to break it... needed changes to crouching.
It's sort of a long story but I definitely want to have a flash of light on the sprite's face when the weapon fires. It just might necessitate that I reorganize the player's artwork into different objects... which right now has two components: a main body object and an arm/weapon object.