"3 mags, 80 rounds..."

[Human No More]

Fair enough, so around 7-8 seconds then - although unless you have some huge target, isn't the main function of using it that way just to get people to duck? I'm sure they were told to fire normally instead, if they were that short on supplies. The guns the marines had didn't look particularly rapid firing, probably just average, although the ones on the samsons were probably a lot faster.

[mikkowilson]

Yeah. 90 shots is a pretty good number of shots, even in full-auto, let alone semi auto.

And full auto handheld is only really useful in short bursts. Otherwise you aren't aiming, and if you aren't aiming, why are you shooting?

In the film, even the fastest weapons make a series of shots sound. bang,bang,bang,bang or ba,ba,ba,ba at the fastest. High speed machine guns just make a buzzing sound.

- Mikko