Can one person shoot 150 rounds in 5 minutes?

[lisaleaks]

Adam Lanza - 'In less than five minutes, a gunman shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 26 people inside, then took his own life, leaving more than 150 spent rounds in his wake, according to documents released Thursday.'
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/newtown-massacre-150-rounds-in-5-minutes/#z6JCTHbzd9srjHgx.99

 

[Certaindeaf]

Five minutes is a long time. Have you ever shot any sort of firearm?

 

[rcmodel]

150 rounds is 5 30-round magazines.

I'd say it would be real easy to shoot up 5 mags in 5 minutes at basically point blank range, and have a minute or two left over.

rc

 

[oneounceload]

Make it subgun, and 150 rounds won't last 1 minute

 

[leadaddict]

One shot every two seconds is not "fast" from a magazine fed, auto-loading firearm. Yes, that's a lot of rounds, but with enough magazines it doesn't matter much if they are 10 or 30 rounds each, that rate of fire is very achievable.

 

[sota]

considering with an uplula I can load 10 15rnd mags in under 5 minutes I'm pretty sure I could empty them all in the same amount of time.

 

[c4v3man]

If the ammunition is stored properly, you could probably shoot 100 rounds from a single-shot hunting rifle in 5 minutes. That doesn't mean it's practical, however banning "semi-automatics" or standard capacity 30 round magazines isn't going to prevent someone from killing 20-30 people if they want to. Heck, look at Greece, some guy just left a bomb sitting outside the gate of someone's home. If that backpack was in a mall or other highly populated area, you'd be much worse off than some maniac with a semi-automatic firearm.

 

[mljdeckard]

Firing even moderately, let's say, 3 rounds per second, that's less than a minute of total firing time. Five magazine switches, I'm old and somewhat out of practice, I can do them in about three seconds. (My little brother is cavalry, he just won a contest in his unit for magazine changes, he's probably less than one.) Let's say a rookie civilian takes five seconds to change a magazine, that's 25 seconds. That's 1:15.

Now, since you are asking in reference to the Newtown shooter, they are saying he reloaded each time as he went from room to room, rather than shooting until he was empty. This is what we call a tactical reload, something most civilians don't know about or mess with. TO ME, this demonstrates a degree of knowledge and some training, even if it was mostly playing Call of duty and practicing mag changes in his bedroom. He was probably reasonably fast.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Type ""mad minute" .303 SMLE"" into google. Around six seconds per ten rounds with another couple seconds per ten shot reload.. out of an "obsolete" bolt action clunker. you do the math

 

[buck460XVR]

Can one person shoot 150 rounds in 5 minutes?

Not a problem. I work on the 5 shots/5 seconds/5 yards drill all the time with my 1911. Most of the time all 7 are gone within the 5 seconds. Many times I can drop the empty mag, reload and shoot the other 7 within the next five seconds. The relative ease to shoot this much ammo in such a short amount of time is what the Hi-Cap Mag argument is all about.

 

[csspecs]

I've shot that many out of a side by side 12 gauge in about the same time.. My buddy with a pump gun was just out pacing me by a little bit.

Banning 30 round mags wont help.

Requiring hardened doors on the entrances of schools and fencing around could actually help.. However the current administration is on a mission that does not involve protecting children.

 

[Bianchi?]

That's a shot every 2 seconds (on average). Not that fast.

 

[1KPerDay]

Why do you ask?

 

[bigfatdave]

Easily
With 5, 15, or 30 round magazines
It isn't combat shooting or precise target shooting when the targets are entirely undefended at short range

If this is some thinly (poorly?) vieled attempt to justify limiting firearm capacity, that atrocity could have been done with a deer rifle or a bag full of black powder revolvers - the real problem is not mag capacity or action type. It could have been done (more easily, in fact) without any gun of any type, look up the Bath School disaster

 

[Certaindeaf]

An AC-130 Spectre gunship fires like a million rounds a second (not really).. and that's not even with cluster munitions/bombs.

 

[Bill_Shelton]

I am amazed that Lanza could only kill 26 little kids with an AR-15 while Cho at Virginia Tech killed 30 adults with a 9mm pistol while using only 26 more rounds of ammo.

It could have been worse if Lanza was really as smart as people claimed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre

 

[Bianchi?]

An AC-130 Spectre gunship fires like a million rounds a second (not really).. and that's not even with cluster munitions/bombs.

Well, the AC-130 usually has 2, M134 Miniguns, which fire at 6,000 rounds per minute (30 rounds a second), so they can dump 60 rounds of 7.62x54 in 1 second......

 

[mgmorden]

With walking around and finding targets to shoot that's not that surprising. If just a matter of dumping rounds as fast as I could I'd bet I could fire 350 or more in 5 minutes (as could most other people here).

You haven't come out and said it, but it sounds like you're sniffing around for yet another "conspiracy".

No, no one faked an elementary school massacre to force gun control on the nation. Yes, most of the Democrats do actually think that taking away guns makes people safer (ie, "their heart is in the right place"). They are mistaken in that belief, but it is indeed their motivation behind their actions.

The way things unfold in a system so large as the entire country isn't nearly as secretive and mysterious as some would like to believe.

 

[j1]

I do not see why not.

P S I just called Gander Mountain and Dicks Sporting goods and neither has ANY 22 rimfire ammo in stock or for sale. Gotta scoff some up as soon as I can.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Well, the AC-130 usually has 2, M134 Miniguns, which fire at 6,000 rounds per minute (30 rounds a second), so they can dump 60 rounds of 7.62x54 in 1 second......

There have been many iterations. "One person" can lay down a world of hurt in short order, that's for sure.

 

[Robert]

I am closing this for the time being. If the OP would like to respond to the question of what they are after I will be happy to reopen the thread.

 

[Walkalong]

A shooter who planned, and evidently practiced, for such a heinous crime, could absolutely shoot up 15 10 round mags up in 5 minutes. Trapped targets in a gun free zone with no fear of anyone fighting back, much less shooting back, make it that much easier. 5 30 round mags, or 15 10 round mags, it would have made no difference in that situation. Crazy people who want to kill a lot of folks quickly pick gun free non defended zones for a reason.

Fast fire is not the same as effective fire. If Adam Lanza shot 150 times, we are lucky that more innocent people were not killed. Perhaps we should be glad he rushed himself and missed a great deal, although it is hard to see any positive in such a tragedy.