Firing Squad

[Gibbon]

The clue is in the wording, it's a "non lethal round", that doesn't mean it can't f**king hurt when it hits you

Ok I'm prepared to concede somewhat, but from doing a bit of googling it seems that wax rounds have lower muzzle velocities and can't be used in automatic weapons because of lower back pressure which would still indicate to me that it would have a slightly different feel to an experienced marksman.

[Churchill]

Ok I'm prepared to concede somewhat, but from doing a bit of googling it seems that wax rounds have lower muzzle velocities and can't be used in automatic weapons because of lower back pressure which would still indicate to me that it would have a slightly different feel to an experienced marksman.

But you don't know, do you?

[Gibbon]

But you don't know, do you?

Not having fired a wax bullet no.

But I have fired a few thousand rounds in my time, balnks and none blanks. Also been rabbiting with my dad who loaded his own 22 ammo and you could tell the slightly different mixtures he was experimenting with.

Also the article itself says 'very similar' not 'exactly the same'.

And unless you and SC have fired a wax round from the same rifle as a live round you don't know either.

I am however prepared to agree to disagree

[Olly]

hang about...4 of 5 had real bullets. Those firing should assume, on balance of probability that they were one of the 4 who killed the chap

[Doggy Styles]

How would they have fired blanks in the days of longbows?

[Moscow Mule]

Ok I'm prepared to concede somewhat, but from doing a bit of googling it seems that wax rounds have lower muzzle velocities and can't be used in automatic weapons because of lower back pressure which would still indicate to me that it would have a slightly different feel to an experienced marksman.

They are prison guards - not experienced marksmen shooting 1000s of rounds a week.

Chances are, they could work it out if they wanted to compare notes - not sure they'd be having that conversation over their morning donut though...

[Drewster]

How would they have fired blanks in the days of longbows?

Little "suckers" on the end - Shirley

[Paddy]

BBC News - Utah firing squad execution for Ronnie Lee Gardner


Bollocks about the guards not knowing if they fired the blank. Any one who has fired high velocity rifles will know how different it feels.


Although I don't agree with the death penaltywith the 'innocent man argument' this method is surely prefable to that farce that is lethal injection.

After being shot in the heart, blood actively will stop. The nerve cells in the cerebral cortex cease funtioning in two to six minutes. The nerve cells in the midbrain that control unconscious activity such as breathing can last up to thirty minutes. The nerve cells in the spinal cord can last an hour without blood flow. The doctor will normally certify death after 30 minutes.

[Moscow Mule]

How would they have fired blanks in the days of longbows?

One of them would have a willow arrow, the rest birch.

[Doggy Styles]

After being shot in the heart, blood actively will stop. The nerve cells in the cerebral cortex cease funtioning in two to six minutes. The nerve cells in the midbrain that control unconscious activity such as breathing can last up to thirty minutes. The nerve cells in the spinal cord can last an hour without blood flow. The doctor will normally certify death after 30 minutes.

It's wonderful, knowing how justice is dispensed.

Have you got one of those for ole sparky?