Yes, a 45 is a penetrating bullet, it is not like a rubber bullet or bean bag projectile. Please just go back and read the damn thing you quoted again, it actually explains it.
Judah On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not sure if you have ever seen a .45 acp round, but I think that would > qualify as a slug...it's a pretty huge round. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 5:20 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Daily Kos: Why liberals should love the Second Amendment > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The .45 acp is a "slow" moving round...slow enough that it is ineffective >> against body armor as far as penetration goes. > > Yes, I know, but most people out there aren't wearing body armor and a > 45 round will be a penetrating round at reasonably close distance for > a normal human target. > > And, to quote what you just pasted: > > "Although knockback is not possible with a handgun bullet, it can be an > actual effect occurring in reaction to being hit by a massive slug, such as > a rubber bullet or sandbag fired from a shotgun. The dynamics of a slug > round are quite different than penetrating bullets; the projectile is here > designed not to penetrate but instead to strike a hard, blunt force blow, > and as the momentum carried by a shotgun cartridge is greater than > practically any production handgun cartridge, the force imparted is > comparable to a hard punch and is capable, by physics, of affecting a > person's forward motion. In any case, due to conservation of momentum, the > gun's recoil is always larger than the bullet's knockback, as some momentum > of the bullet is lost during flight, and if the bullet penetrates through > the target it will not have imparted all its momentum into the target." > > Which is another way of saying what I've already said. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
