It's part of the reason that as you get further away, the .45 is less accurate than the 9mm. It was designed to be a close range combat arm and takes a lot of training to be very accurate with it. The article also explains that part of this is the body's natural reaction to try and absorb the energy by moving in the same direction.
-----Original Message----- From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 6:29 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Daily Kos: Why liberals should love the Second Amendment 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:322921 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
