Probably not. If he had been using rapid fire with a scoped firearm, the accuracy would have been much higher, and fewer missed rounds.
I have never seen anyone use full auto fire with a scope and achieve more accuracy, even on a tripod.
What do you do to achieve this?
I was taught that a Machine Gun is designed to engage area targets. Troops gathered together, areas where enemy machine guns or heavy weapons were located. Riflemen engage single targets, they are supposed to aim and fire at one person, or a bunch of people. But a machine gun usually doesn’t worry too much about the one guy so to speak.
Look at the First World War. Machine Guns fired into massed troops attacking. Riflemen tended to engage the single soldier moving around. The Machine Gun would engage eventually, but everyone has a feeling of efficiency. It is inefficient to engage a single soldier with a machine gun. Better to let the rifles deal with him while you focus on the groups, or the enemy machine guns.
There is an old saying, people deal with their own kind. Tanks engage tanks. Aircraft fight other aircraft. The best weapon to hunt a submarine, is another submarine. Aircraft carriers are really worried about other aircraft carriers. We can go outside this. Teams that hunt tanks with anti-tank weapons or anti aircraft teams. But generally we use similar weapons to hunt the actual target. Anti-battery fire from artillery as one example. First we have to kill the ones like us, then we can go after the others. The ones like us, can kill us the easiest. They know what we can do, and they know what threat they are, and therefore what threat we are.
Bump fire weapons can’t really be used from bipod or tripod mounts. Remember it takes the recoil to drive the weapon back, resetting the trigger, while you push it forward, to re-engage the trigger. That is standing, or perhaps laying down unsupported.
The problem is that bumpfire can be accomplished with nothing. You don’t need a special add on stock. You can use a rubber band, a belt loop, or just holding it loosely with your trigger hand, usually right hand.
We could ban belt loops. Or we could try and make the technnique illegal. That is probably what someone is figuring out in Congress right now. Banning the stock does not ban the technique. It’s a terrible technique, and it is about as inaccurate as pretending you are Stevie Wonder with the rifle. The Stock might make it slightly more accurate, but again, not much, because the rifle isn’t fired from a stable position, but from an unstable position
There are other useless things that have been around for decades. The best, or perhaps I should say most similar system to the Military is something called a Binary Trigger. It is a modified trigger group that allows for each trigger pull to fire two rounds. One on pulling the trigger, one on releasing the trigger. I doubt it would be covered by a ban of “bump fire stocks” so expect to hear how it got through the loophole or something after they pass the bump fire stock ban.
The thing about all of these systems is that they are the “Poor Man’s” answer to the problem of “fully automatic” fire. Like a farmer who can’t get explosives to remove a particularly stubborn stump using gunpowder for the task. It works, not as well as the purpose designed article, but it works.
