Re: 9mm, coppers

laserlight <laserlight@mci2000.com> wrote:
>  I sell industrial plastics, including polycarbonate laminates
>("bulletproof glass").  The factory sent us some samples of 1.250"
sheet,
>composed of 2 layers 0.125 thick sandwiching two layers 0.500"
thick--and
>the samples had been tested, just to help make the point.  The 9mm Hi
Power
>slug penetrated 3 layers (ie 1.125") and dimpled the last layer.  The
.45
>cal only penetrated the first (.125") layer, whereupon it fragmented.
    An interesting example that really shows that 9mm penetrates but
doesn't
stop people as well as the .45, which doesn't penetrate well, but does
stop
people. The 9mm went through three layers which indicates good
penetration.
The .45 went through the first layer and fragmented which indicates good
stopping power as the round stays in the target and doesn't go through.

>  The moral of the story, of course, is "don't get shot."
    Too true! But if you are being shot at, wear armour and hope the
opposition is using .45, not 9mm pistol ammunition

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