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John McPhee Explains Why Cars Won’t Save You

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brenda.padilla 1 month ago

Middle of car pillar reinforced steel

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normamcconnell229 1 month ago

68gr 5.56 will go through the windshield, drivers bottom jaw and spine, headrest, back seat passenger solorplex, back seat, inter rear wheel well, rear tire, bounce off wheel, back out of the tire and lodge in the rear bumper. Facts!

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vasudhamalhotra949 1 month ago

When you reach the last day of your life, nothing can save you, just as it's not the last day, nothing will kill you.

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benitosolorzano76 1 month ago

Rather a car than the middle of the damn street getting shot up

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karen_larson 1 month ago

The buffet didn’t go through the engine lol

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stéphane.perrin 1 month ago

Especially at 10-15' away... Was a bit different if you read that after action report of that (famous in the gun world) shooting involving the FBI, ATF, and a few other acronym LEO groups, where something around 144 rounds were fired at a drugged up felon in a car. Calibers fired were something like, 0.40(likely Springfield Arms/S&W/Glock/Sig), 0.45(likely S&W1911 OR GLock), 9mm(likely the 92fs or Glock 19), 0.223(AR), and 0.22LR(full auto mp5), the round that delivered the fatal blow... a 0.22LR bouncing around in dudes dome piece. Can you imagine, 144 rounds fired, all those larger calibers, and its a 22LR that kills the guy... Then the two Nevada (washoe county?) deputies that were in a shoot out, both got shot, one died, one survived because the would have been fatal shot was stopped by his department issued Sheriff's deputy badge... That's reality, that's how unpredictable actual gunfights can be.

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william_grant 1 month ago

this is why you push through the kill zone

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marguerite_robin 1 month ago

It’s also higher grade steel. They use higher grade steel on critical support areas of the structure.

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ethan.santos 1 month ago

Engine blocks in large trucks or old vehicles are your only hope. Modern compact cars are mostly plastic under the hood and won't stop anything. A big v8 will but like the pillars it's still easy to fire through the engine bay and not hit the actual block

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harryjames211 1 month ago

So the entire giant engine area is indeed cover got it

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lucieadam19 1 month ago

Time to armor plate my truck.

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pedrolucas.abreu 1 month ago

Fill it up with sand beef up suspension

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brenocosmos37 1 month ago

Definitely drive straight home and run straight to your concrete basement for the rest of the shootout! Bwahaha!

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rolando_zayas 1 month ago

Simple, straightforward and no BS. I love it.

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bradley.page 1 month ago

Cover vs concealment and know how to conform to cover

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victoria.solano 1 month ago

Definitely just a metal coffin

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vasudha_khanna 1 month ago

Could you try that with a challenger. Bulky and heavy as that thing is it has to be a little more sturdy. And at least it’s watertight. After being submerged for two minutes when the car was pulled from the water we were still dry. Granted we had not been shot at first.

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brenocosmos37 1 month ago

I got shot at with a 40 s&w the suv back door stopped it and it didn’t even go thru the plastic cover

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christine_woods 1 month ago

Is this a tourist information session? Could I ask which state? I think I might want to avoid it.

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rosaaltamirano467 1 month ago

Bullet magnet