BehindBlueI's
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- Oct 3, 2012
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Will a window stop whatever firearm/round you use for home defense? Or do you rely on blunt/edged weapons for that task?
I recommend bricking up all your windows, just to be safe.
I've worked the occasional drive by shooting, and actually window glass can start the .223 tumbling. You see the bullet hole in the window, then where it struck an interior wall and can tell it was already tumbling at that point. Pistol bullets that hit residential glass keep on trucking. Auto glass, they tend to start shearing off jackets, etc. Ammo selection matters, of course.
Maybe 3 years ago or so I had an old man shot in the face by an AR through a window. (His son was the target, but you know...) The bullet hit the aluminum window frame first. The man had a tiny chunk of shrapnel in his cheek, and we weren't sure if it was from the window frame or the bullet. The drywall looked like it'd been sandblasted, but no real bullet strike.