| From: | WILLIAM FRIERSON <will1am@*****.ASU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Penetrating Car Doors (was Shotgun Scatter) |
| Date: | Fri, 26 May 1995 23:22:11 -0700 |
>>Add slugs, and you've got a reliable penetrator that will
>>take someone out in a car or behind a door.
>
>Small-caliber weapons work too for those kinds of things :) I doubt many car
>doors stop 9mm rounds, in fact just about the only parts of a car that are
>able to stop bullets are the engine block and maybe the chassis. First
>lesson of taking cover: don't hide behind a car door :)
Actually, there are no handgun rounds that will _reliably_ penetrate a
car door or body. This includes .44 magnum rounds. Some of the special
KTW or THV rounds will, but they are strictly controlled. If you have to
penetrate a car door or body, then you should use a rifle or shotgun
with slugs. Note that all of this is meant in police deadly force
situations. Under those conditions, reliably putting a felon down as
quickly as possible, firing through a car door with a handgun is
not likely to succeed.
Hell, most of the rounds fired by police in a gunfight miss anyway. Just
like with soldiers. I would hide behind a car door if it was available.
Better would be a 2 man fighting position in a full defensive perimeter.
Even better would not be getting shot at all :).
Later
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