Talk:3-volley salute

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I used to be good at math, but this is a little over my head ;)

• "In the case of a 3-soldier firing party, this equals a total of 7 shots per soldier."

I expected "3-volleys" to be each gun is fired three times. Or is this related to the 21-gun salute somehow? BartonM 21:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Each member of the firing team fires three times. This is what three volleys means. This means that on most occasions, a total of nine rounds are fired. Now, also, as it happens, the M-14 and M-1 Garand which are used for military funeral honors are both semi-automatic. But yes, we use blanks. The notion that a blank round will not cycle the action of a semiautomatic rifle is simply false. The M-16 will not cycle with blank ammunition without a Blank Firing Adapter, which clamps onto the end of the barrel and forces the gasses to work the action.

Yeah, DUHH wikipedia. i'll fix it. 64.231.62.252 (talk) 11:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)