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Trump looking to create squad of 600 troops to deploy across US against civil unrest
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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How much would 600 bullets cost?
There's a lot of variables there...
This is kind of like asking "How much for 600 sandwiches?"
How much does the average .50 round cost? I figure we ought to give them something good.
Edit : Apparently it’s four dollars a round
.50bmg is about $5-$10 a round, on the low end, but depending on how tight spacing is, you probably wouldn't need 600
I think they should be individually used, very slowly
It's more cost efficient to use the whole bullet.
Cave Johnson here, why do we not use the whole bullet? Sure you fire a bit of lead but imagine what you could do if you fired the brass and powder as well? So I got the boys down in the lab working on it, they created something called a coilgun. Don't really know or care what that means but you should care, because we are going to give you one to fight the ever growing army of mantis men! Don't worry they don't eat people.
More than a guillotine.
That’s probably true. I think the most expensive part would be the blade, but you can keep sharpening that – unlike a bullet. I think either would be acceptable, but certainly the guillotine would be more entertaining
The point of the guillotine was to give all citizens an equal, dignified and relatively painless death. Too good for those fucks.
Dignified? Really?
Yeah. Before the French Revolution execution via beheading was reserved for nobles, and it was done manually using a weapon rather than via a machine. Meanwhile commoners got to have all the wonderful medieval execution methods like breaking on the wheel and burning at the stake. In the interest of Enlightenment ideals, abandoning medieval barbarism and equality between citizens the Legislative Assembly voted to do away with this system and made it so all French citizens got a execution via beheading like the nobility. However, executioners said that if the lines got too long they might have to rush their work, and a sloppy job would cause undue suffering to the condemned, defeating the point of the whole affair. This is where the clean and efficient guillotine came in. The guillotine as a tool was meant to bring the masses up, not bring the nobility down. That's not what it's associated with nowadays, but it's plenty dignified compared to being hanged, drawn and quartered.