4 live and 1 blank
Usually all members of a firing squad are firing live rounds. However in some cases one member has only a blank cartridge.
Depends how many you would like to kill...
Two. One from the firing squad who had a conscience shot and the second from the follow up.
23 Canadian soldiers wereshot by the firing squad during World War One, poor Canadians...
What I remember hearing about a "modern" firing squad is that 5 sharpshooters aim at a cloaked individual with a heart shape on it positioned over the heart. One has a bullet and the others have none so that they don't know who killed the person (seems rather cowardly). Utah still uses the firing squad to execute people.
A Thompson Tommy gun will keep firing until u left off the trigger. They are very reliable.
48734 died, and 3 deserted, including George Washington's nephew, whom he later shot by firing squad.
No. Though it has rarely been used outside of wartime, no case has ever been successfully brought against the practice in the United States. It has only ever been used as a method of execution in 4 states, is no longer used in 2 of those, and is only currently a backup option to lethal injection in 2. The U.S. Supreme Court has only once heard the case that the firing squad is cruel and unusual, and in that case, Wilkerson v. Utah (1878), the Court found that the firing squad did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. The last case of firing squad execution in the United States was in Utah in 1996 and was elected by the condemned. Utah removed the option for firing squad execution in 2004. A 1993 survey suggested that Firing Squad was more painful to the condemned only than execution by lethal injection, below electrocution, the second most common method of execution in the United States.
7 rounds
As many as the firer was capable of firing. The Mauser had an internal box magazine which held five rounds. On top of that, it's a bolt action rifle. 30 rounds per minute would probably be a reasonable estimate in the hands of an experienced and proficient operator.
It's done by time, not by number of rounds. If you're firing "slow fire"--less than 25 rounds per minute--change it every hour. If you're firing "rapid fire"--up to 200 rounds per minute--change it every half hour. And if the barrel starts to change color--it will first glow dull red, then brighter red and finally orange--change it right away. (If it DOES glow orange, the barrel is ruined and you'll probably have to pay for it unless you were in the middle of a firefight when it happened.)
65 rounds a second and as many as 500 rounds in a burst - there is no "per minute"