How many people can you kill with one bullet?

[beowulff]

@bonitahi2

The Navy has a fairly new laser gun that is so powerful that they claim, if you put a line of thin people standing closely together they can shoot through 2200 people per mile for a distance of aprox. 900 miles. Adapting for the curvature of the Earth would be necessary.

Oh, that’s ridiculous.

This is GQ - so, “Cite?”

[TriPolar]

How many people can you kill with one bullet?

How many ya got?

[TommySeven]

@Stranger_On_A_Train

The Thin Man was a series of somewhat farcical detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. The bombs dropped on the Japanese cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” respectively.

In fairness, he was closer than the detective film. Thin Man was also a gun-type plutonium bomb, abandoned because plutonium-240 impurities made it unacceptably likely to start detonating before the two pieces were fully assembled, blowing the bomb apart with only a small fraction of full yield.

[running_coach]

@bonitahi2

The Laser Weapon System would not really hurt them with hard nasty projectiles, rather, when shot, it would just put a one foot circular hole in each of their bodies and would just keep moving through.

@beowulff

Oh, that’s ridiculous.

This is GQ - so, “Cite?”

Does that seriously sound like a name the military would come up with?

[Sage_Rat]

@Loopus

where are Mythbusters when we need them?

The Mythbusters consistently got the result that handguns had more penetration, and more likelihood of going through multiple targets than a rifle. But then, each time they tried a new test they seemed to completely forget.

[running_coach]

@bonitahi2

The Navy has a fairly new laser gun that is so powerful that they claim, if you put a line of thin people standing closely together they can shoot through 2200 people per mile for a distance of aprox. 900 miles. Adapting for the curvature of the Earth would be necessary.

The Laser Weapon System would not really hurt them with hard nasty projectiles, rather, when shot, it would just put a one foot circular hole in each of their bodies and would just keep moving through.

The NRA is petitioning the US govt to allow the manufacture of, and public gun show sales in the South, and in Chicago.

This human carnage is fast and painless (almost humane), too. This very effective high-energy device can strike “this line of peeps” at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second)!

The cost? Less than a dollar per shot.

My math is suspect…what would therefor be the cost per kill with this weapon?

The thing exists-for shooting at UAVs, not people.

And that is it’s (disappointing) real name.

[pkbites]

@Spiderman

Eye.
Higher probability of kill as its going into the brain easier than thru the teeth/roof of mouth.

WTF? No.

I posted OPEN MOUTH (no teeth, etc)

Shooting into the eye is fine for a good kill for 1 person (are we really talking about this? ) but did you read my post and consider the OP? If you shoot the eye it’s got a lot of “glop” to go through before getting out and hitting the next guy, which is what the OP is talking about.

Lets get this straight before we attempt to pull this off, people!!! :D:p

[Senegoid]

This all sounds like a useful discussion for the new President of the Philippine Islands, who has pledged to execute 100,000 criminals.

[Shalmanese]

16.5 Million if you’re Gavrilo Princip.

[Ranger_Jeff]

There were informal experiments on this performed by German SS Einsatzgruppen units during WWII on the Eastern Front. I doubt if any records were kept. I suspect by the time medical experimentation on human subjects began in their concentration and extermination camps, they had already bypassed gunfire in favour of gas chambers as the most efficient method of mass murder.

[jasg]

In the late 1700s, Russian fur traders apparently settled a bet on this by lining up a dozen Aleuts and firing a large bore musket at them. Nine died.