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To: El Gato

A .50 BMG AP woulndn't penetrate more than about 1 1/4" of steel and then only at close range.


13 posted on 05/29/2004 2:45:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
A .50 BMG AP woulndn't penetrate more than about 1 1/4" of steel and then only at close range

I guess I was thinking more of the bucket in the Lethal Weapon movie, which couldn't have been more than 3/4" thick (probably less), rather than the "several inches of hardened steel" that the other poster mentioned.

14 posted on 05/30/2004 11:20:51 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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