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To: ctdonath2
AFAIK, there were only 3-4 bursts of less than 100 rounds each.

I don't know the first thing about guns and I'm not looking for a fight, but are you suggesting that 300-400 bullets accounted for approx. 550 casualties?

39 posted on 10/09/2017 8:15:24 AM PDT by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: NutsOnYew

Of the 550 casualties, all but about 150 were released within a day (probably NOT gunshot wounds), so say 150 still actually in the hospital and ~60 dead. That’s just over 200 gunshot casualties for however many rounds Paddock fired.

Note - I have not seen any official medical injuries tally so I am only guessing by reports how many may have actually been struck by bullets.


45 posted on 10/09/2017 8:23:16 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: NutsOnYew
Between ricochets, bullets passing through one body and into another, and the fact that, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no official listing or differentiation of those wounded/killed by gunfire or ricochets and those wounded/killed in the stampede to get out of the kill-zone, I would say that 300-400 bullets is MORE than enough to have caused that carnage.

And I am familiar with weapons, serving in the military for 21 years (and in the infantry for five), and owning several privately-owned weapons and using them regularly at the range.

46 posted on 10/09/2017 8:23:52 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: NutsOnYew

I wonder how many of those people were injured in the stampede, rather than actually wounded by bullets?


47 posted on 10/09/2017 8:26:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: NutsOnYew
I don't know the first thing about guns and I'm not looking for a fight, but are you suggesting that 300-400 bullets accounted for approx. 550 casualties?

Maybe the OP didn't, but I will. 5.56 bullets will often go through and through on a deer, and on a human. Velocity exceeds Mach 2.6, you know.

87 posted on 10/09/2017 10:54:29 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of the MAGA agenda. But now the Swamp is back in control.)
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