Re: A reality in Hollywood - what's that?

[Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>]

At 09:41 AM 9/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Igor wrote:
>
>> They shot pretty much every mobile firearm that I know of at a poor
junked car.
>> Of all that firepower only a sniper rifle with armour piersing ammo and
an AK47
>> hit the cardboard siloueto of a man hidden behind the car's door. _All_
of the
>> handguns, especially those shooting the hollow point ammo, were compleately
>> harmless. That's why the Police hide behind the car doors in a shootout.
The
>> door offers a quite adequate protection.
>
>My (now ex) neighbor got killed sitting in his mustang when a measly 9mm went
>through his door without even slowing down.

A .357 magnum round can and has been demonstrated to pass completely
through an old Murican cast arn engine block, end to end after penetrating
body, seats, dash, etc, first.  I don't recommend hiding from bullets
behind a piece of sheet metal.


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