"I shudder to think what would happen if a fighter pilot today leveled out a run on a moose and capped off 100 rounds out of his F-35s GAU-22/A 25 MM Gatling gun."
Not much really. In new jersey you can shoot the roof of an elementary school from an aircraft and not get in that much trouble.
Pilot, F-16 controls blamed in strafing of school | Deseret News
Warren Grove Gunnery Range
("25 rounds in rapid succession)
I couldn't find it but apparently the laser targeting is activated by 'one click' on the trigger on the stick. Two clicks
operate the gun. The recorded conversations were apparently priceless.
"What was that"
"Had a little problem here."
"Were you using the laser designator."
"Yes."
"We talked about that, remember?"
School custodian: "hey, somebody's jumping around on the roof...."
As an aside, I've never quite figured out why some of the *most*
practical members of this forum (gunsmiths) regularly make money
using the types of machines that are 'verboten' from being discussed,
on a practical machinists board. Because they are not for making
money doing machining....