Posted on 11/06/2009 12:44:47 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Are you under the impression that reloading takes a considerable amount of time?
If you KNOW that you will be reloading, then you arrange things so that the full replacement magazine is in your hand when the gun becomes empty.
When the slide locks back and the gun fails to fire, then you know it is time to reload. You press the magazine release button, dropping the empty magazine to the ground. You insert the loaded magazine and pull back on the slide and release it. Now you're ready to fire again.
Such reloading takes on the order of three or four seconds. Not much delay in a shooting spree that lasted at least 180 seconds.
And to put out that many rounds that quickly and still maintain a high accuracy level does take a high level of proficency.
From another post I received, it seems that he may have been shooting from a height advantage, which would have allowed him to just put rounds into a crowd very calmly since he himself was above the confusion and chaos caused by the shooting.
Definitely semi-automatic, magazine-fed. I'm not real familiar with the one gun mentioned, but it was the object of some controversy because it fires a small, fast bullet, capable of piercing some level of personal-protection vest.
The media made a big deal of this fact at the time the gun was introduced, despite that virtually any rifle fires a round that defeats most vests.
Now, this explains why he was so accurate!
‘In the center of the table was clear-plastic packaging from a Laser Max brand pistol sight. Authorities have said one of the pistols Hasan used in the attack was outfitted with a red-laser sight.’
The witness, who asked not to be identified, said Major Hasan wheeled on Sergeant Munley as she rounded the corner of a building and shot her, putting her on the ground. Then Major Hasan turned his back on her and started putting another magazine into his semiautomatic pistol.
It was at that moment that Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, a veteran police officer, rounded another corner of the building, found Major Hasan fumbling with his weapon and shot him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/us/12hood.html?_r=1
If I were using a laser sight under those circumstances, I would expect the laser to allow me to shoot more targets in less time. But not necessarily more accurately.
Sargeant Munley was hit in the legs. I doubt that the shooter chose that as the target. She was also hit in the wrist. I attended a class which included a session clearing several rooms. When I shot one of the "bad guy" targets, I hit the gun the bad guy was holding.
The instructor said that this was common as there is a tendency to focus on the weapon. But I should have aimed at and hit the center of mass of the bad guy. That's the most effective way to get the other person to stop shooting at you.
And that was the initial question, I had raised, how could he get so many hits.
Sargeant Munley was hit in the legs. I doubt that the shooter chose that as the target. She was also hit in the wrist. I attended a class which included a session clearing several rooms. When I shot one of the "bad guy" targets, I hit the gun the bad guy was holding.
I doubt that he had time to use the sight when confronted with the police officers.
The instructor said that this was common as there is a tendency to focus on the weapon. But I should have aimed at and hit the center of mass of the bad guy. That's the most effective way to get the other person to stop shooting at you.
No doubt. Hitting the other person first is crucial in a gunfight.
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