[geeks] CCW for Ohio!

[Phil Stracchino]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:36:47PM -0500, Nick wrote:
> It all depends on the energy applied.  Lets assume you manage to find
> something that will evenly distribute the force of a BMG 50 round hitting
> a person across their entire chest (Good Luck).  That human now looks like
> they were hit with a very large hammer.  They probably have not one single
> rib left intact, and are otherwise crushed.  All body armor does is
> convert the trauma, and spread it out.  Throw enough energy at the problem
> and it no longer matters if it's spread over one cubic inch or fifty.

Well, yeah, but once you're talking .50 BMG, you've left the range of
projectiles that can be stopped by any body armor that a human can wear
and still move at faster than a slow shuffle (or do *anything* besides
haul the armor around) anyway.  So while this is completely true, it's
basically irrelevant to the question at hand, which is whether you can
incapacitate someone wearing body armor that can stop whatever rounds
you're firing by hitting them with a three-round burst instead of a
single round.

Also, you're incorrect about what body armor does.  The most important
thing body armor does is prevent a projectile from penetrating the body
and damaging vital organs, opening blood vessels, etc.  That's why
soft body armor, like a Kevlar vest, works.  A vest alone doesn't really
spread the impact forces over more than a few square inches, which is
why you get such hellacious bruises from being shot with major-caliber
rounds while wearing a vest.


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