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To: Spktyr

It actually does to some extent, indeed in a different way and it is why a shooter is able to sustain it. We are actually comparing apples and oranges right now.


207 posted on 12/23/2013 7:43:57 PM PST by cunning_fish
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To: cunning_fish

No, it doesn’t. ‘Knockdown power’ as in Hollywood style ‘lift a man off their feet through the air and put them on their butt’ is a myth for man portable type gunpowder weapon sans explosive warheads - it would also lift a shooter off their feet through the air and put them on their butt when fired!

Incapacitation, musculoskeletal damage and the like are real and both can and will cause a human to collapse when shot - but get thrown through the air and knocked down? No. Check out any live test of a ‘bulletproof’ vest.


208 posted on 12/23/2013 7:49:48 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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