I think you or I could’ve killed more people in that time period, just from familiarity and experience. And I haven’t held an M-16 since 1988 when I left airport security to work at the unemployment office since it paid better and was day shift.
I almost hate to say it lest we give anyone any ideas. I don’t know the exact numbers, but if you could swap off for fresh rifles, already loaded with very large mags in the 60-100 round sides... Id like to see it tested, but I bet you could get off 70-75% of the rounds he did, and they should be way better aimed.
And I’m not talking about precision shooting. Just rapid aiming and squeezing.
The gun grabbers are falling straight into the “careful what you wish for zone”.
As an example, Orlando, Aurora, Fort Hood were all semi auto. All of them basically exhausted their ammo and available targets.