Two random examples: Burke. firing a snub nose, trades shots with the bad guy firing an Army carbine. The bad guy runs out of ammo. Carbine has a 30 round magazine. Snub nose shoots six. Max. Second example: Burke provokes Diana Lynn into a rage to determine if she's capable of murder. She's holding an elephant gun. How Burke would have handled a shot from a .375, which Diana had misidentified as a .357, in unexplained.
Review of Burke's Law
