Shooting Through Cars Clothing isn't the only thing that can plug the opening in a hollow point bullet. Automobile glass can do this, too. This means that a hollow point bullet that passes through the windshield of a car before striking someone may perform like an FMJ or "ball" round when it strikes the target. If a gunman with a handgun approaches your car demanding that you get out, one viable option is just to duck down and drive away. The sheet metal in your car, not to mention the auto glass, may and can defeat many handgun bullets (and this has happened many times in real life). More Inconvenient Ballistic Facts We can see that it is the distribution profile of the TSC and its depth that are responsible for a good deal of how expanding, high velocity handgun bullets affect a "stop" of the attacker. stop the attacker from using his own weapon (his gun, his knife, his hands, his feet) on you. Many "experts" on ballistics will assert things like, "It's the absolute amount of foot-pounds of striking energy that determines handgun stopping power." They may also claim that "the bigger and faster the bullet, the greater the stopping power will be." Neither of these statements is completely true where handguns are concerned. As we've learned, the bigger, faster .44 Magnum does not, usually, stop an attacker as effectively as a .357 Magnum (using, for our standard of comparison, 22 Ideally, this is done quickly enough to www.BulletproofDefenseDVD.com
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