On May 23, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde’s tan ‘34 Ford was ambushed by ex-Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and six officers. At least 167 shots hit the car and about 50 hit them.
In this situation, 71 rounds hitting the target manifests a lack of fire discipline or a simple ambush with full intent to kill.
Think about it. More than 140% of the firepower to kill Bonnie & Clyde was used in this reported incident.
As you know these two were killed in a classic roadside ambush by officers who were laying in wait concealed with automatic weapons and with no intent to give them a chance to surrender. The amount of rounds fired and hits is in dispute but that’s another thread.
Now that was a military op.
One of the first things to go when suddenly confronted by an armed subject is fire discipline. Officers and soldiers fire until the threat is no long a threat, and sympathetic fire is common to both professions.
An ambush with full intent to kill? An ambush is static, these officers weren’t doing doing a bounding movement to contact or marching fire or anything of the sort. They were clearing a house and were confronted by the suspect who was armed.