How many bullets do each of those guns hold?
This story has more versions than Obama has social security numbers.
more than one shooter?
Thats a lot of rounds for one guy and handguns
His poor trigger finger must have been tired afterwards.
Maybe we could get him a federal grant for a carpal masseuse.
“...fired 98 shots from two handguns in just over a minute, according to police.”
Reporter has an ear wax problem me thinks.
Must have been carrying speedloaders.
98 shots and only 13 dead?
In Alabama 200 shots were fired and 10 dead.
I would be more worried about a man who fires 100 times and kills 90 people.
This can’t be true. “Everyone” knows the 9mm is useless as a carry weapon because it’s underpowered.
Hopefully he has a one way ticket to the electric chair.
There must have been a second shooter on a grassy knoll or something.
Not particularly impressive; The current world record for aimed bolt-action fire was set in 1914 by a musketry instructor in the British Army — Sergeant Instructor Snoxall — who placed 38 rounds into a 12 inch wide target at 300 yards (270 m) in one minute.
Sgt Snoxall was firing accurately with a bolt-action rifle nearly as fast.
Stupid reporters .. they could have been told 298 shots in a minute and they would have printed that. We need to take some of these folks to the range.
"Shots are coming from the second floor ... assailant still in the building ... standby until you get backup," one dispatcher advises police at the scene.
"Nobody go in that building alone," warns another.
Right. For that locality, mustn't Protect and Defend is there’s any danger involved.
He fired almost 100 rounds a minute? Mighty quick hands and fingers.
Does any of these liberal gun haters ever do the math?
98 shots, one minute? - How many shots per second?
Interesting report, since I read, it took them two minutes to get there and then 45 minutes to go. It’s amazing that they can fake such accurate information. I doubt that anyone in the building can give an accurate report since they would be diving for cover and not looking at their watches.
PURE BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“IHMO, the 45 jammed.”
Maybe this scum bag couldn’t handle the recoil of the .45!
From Wikipedia, FYI:
Ed McGivern is renowned as one of the best handgunners that ever lived. His Guinness world record for “The greatest rapid-fire feat” (set in August 20, 1932 at the Lead Clube Range, South Dakota) still stands. This feat consisted of “firing two times from 15 feet five shots which could be covered by a silver half-dollar piece in 45/100’s of a second”.
Mr. McGivern was capable of many amazing shooting feats, most of them well documented in his book.[1] To name just a few:
* He could break six simultaneously hand thrown clay pigeons (standard trap targets) in the air before they hit the ground.
* He could hit a tin can hand thrown 20 ft. in the air six times before it hit the ground.
* He could drive a tack or nail into wood by shooting it.
* He could shoot the spots out of playing cards, or even split a playing card edge on.
* He could shoot a dime on the fly.
All of these executed with either hand using a factory Smith & Wesson M&P double action revolver (puportedly his favorite handgun).
Competition shooter Jerry Miculek has attempted, and broken, some of McGivern’s long standing records, such as the record for 60 shots fired from 10 revolvers. Althought Miculek holds a number of records, his attempt to beat McGivern’s 5 shot record resulted in a time of .57 seconds.[2] A testament to McGivern’s ability was the fact that the 5 shot record was set in 1932, when McGivern was 58 years of age. Soon after that point, arthritis ended McGivern’s competitive shooting career.[1]
Well, assuming standard mag size for the 92F, this is at least 4 mag swaps on the 9mm, plus the time to fire the rounds, in "just over a minute" ... assuming the crowd he was firing into was corralled in some way, he wouldn't have to be aiming very carefully, he could off hand the .45 thru the first mag, then drop it and start the swaps on the 9mm ... so I can see how it could be done.
Still, this sounds like the set-up to talking points for the banning of "high capacity magazines" to go along with the convenient "assault weapons" aspect from the Oakland incident.
This is all just a little too convenient.