Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
great scene, despite the funky tropes
From Miller’s Crossing:
I doubt you could sustain much more than a five- or six-second burst from a tommy gun with a full magazine, but Leo manages at least two to three times that. And then there’s the exploding car at the end. It’s always better when cars go kaboom. Still, as I get older I’m finding myself more and more fond of badass seniors, which is why I’m probably writing them into my story (there will be three before all is said and done . . . four if you count the #1 Bad).
Research today has focused on krav maga, Israelis speaking in English, and the evangelical back-to-Israel movement. Having a lot of fun with this, although it seems like there isn’t enough time in the day to do as much as I would like to do.
D.
Well… those *are* 50-round drums (possibly even 100), but even so…
Under the heading of kick-ass seniors, have you seen “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” yet?
…and duh. Yes, you have seen it. I remembered Pat’s “a werewolf, an undine, and a fairy walk into a bar” (I loved his Twitter vignette of a ‘reformed undine’ in a laundromat.) but not the context…
Hi Static!
I just peeked onto Wikipedia and found the 50-round drum, as well as a rate of fire of either 1200 rounds per minute or 600rpm. Assuming the low end, that’s ten rounds a second, so with your trigger finger jammed down, you’d empty the drum in 5 seconds flat.
Assuming it didn’t jam, which apparently it liked to do.
(Caveat wiki, of course.)
Also: The theatre where I volunteer is bringing in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; I’m lookin’ forward to it.