Bullets through jello, cards, crayons, wine glasses, balloons… mixed in amongst other non gun related destruction:

Shot on the Photron SA1.1 … I hate to think how much that camera costs.

Amazing!

More incredible shots on Dutch photographer Alexander Augusteijn’s website – HERE

We had a little fun while trying to light matches with a bullet. Turns out, after we got all our fixturing dialed in, we were able to light multiple matches with a single bullet. A phantom high speed camera helps tell the story. Mythbusters only tried to light one match with a bullet, so we figured we might as well try to push the envelope. I’m sure Jamie and Adam have the budget and time to figure out the perfect curve to stack arrange all the bullets in to light all matches.

The gun of choice for them? The ubiquitous Ruger 10/22 (.22 LR)

Damn I love slow motion footage.

The 39-year-old victim was walking down the street when he realized he had been shot. The bullet knocked a tooth out, but did not penetrate the man’s mouth and he was able to spit the bullet out, Kubiak said.

Full Story – HERE

I wonder what caliber it was, and it the shot was intended for him, or if he caught a ricochet?

The .45 caliber fanboys are going to claim it was definitely a 9mm

A fact some of you may find interesting… when 50 cent was shot 9 times on April 24, 2000 by an assailant armed with a 9mm handgun, one of the shots went through his left cheek and knocked his wisdom tooth out.  His voice has had a distinct slur ever since.

People might reconsider tailgating this guy:

Pretty classy.  The fake bullet holes on the rear fender are uncalled for though.  Stupid crap like that just brings the entire look down a notch..

I wonder if the same company makes those to fit a full size Glock on a sport bike?

Hat Tip: Carter

Chorlton, United Kingdom - A CT scan reveals a bullet that entered Peter Hesford’s skull while he was in his garden. Police are working on a theory that a gunman may have fired a shot in the air from a few streets away only for the bullet to land in Mr Hesford’s head as he looked up.

Full Story – HERE

Lucky he’s alive!  The bullet must have just coasted along the top of the inside of his skull to end up at it’s final resting place.

His speech is slurred, his memory has deteriorated and he spends most of the time sleeping.

Hopefully he makes a full recovery.  It would be a shame if he didn’t all because of someone not following one of the cardinal rules of knowing your backstop!  Maybe the shooter was aiming at something solid, but people need to take into account where the bullet will go if they miss.

Try as they will, other cartridges will never be this cool:

The wiki page – HERE

A picture for comparison:

If you aren’t already watching the AMC show Breaking Bad, then you should get caught up. The show is absolutely incredible.  At first I was a bit skeptical, considering one of the main characters “Walt” (played by Bryan Cranston) was previously known to me as the dad on the goofy fox comedy show “Malcolm in the Middle”.  Let me tell you though, his performance in this show as a drug manufacturer / high school teacher does not disappoint.

In the most recent episode ( Season 3, Episode 7 ) a fast talking gun dealer gives a Black Talon bullet by the name of “Black Death” to the Mexican hitmen.  I transcribed the scene the best I could:

I’m runnin’ a special on these little honeys.  JHPs.  Hollow point bullets known by the names as black death.

Check it out.  You like that? So sweet you wanna lick it.

Nickle plated brass casing, Lubalox coat (unintelligible)

Sucker has six ranger claws that expand upon impact.

Shred your (unintelligible) head like a cabbage.

I’m not going describe any more of the episode, because I don’t want to spoil it… you should definitely check the series out!

• Buy Season 1 and 2 on DVD on Amazon – HERE
• Hi-def Blue-ray seasons (which I recommend) – HERE and HERE

More on Winchester Black Talon ammunition – HERE

The current lineup of Winchester Ranger ammunition – HERE

That’s a good look for the Prius!

It must be for a movie or something, because the car has New York plates on it.  We all know guns are banned in NYC, so there is no way that could have happened in the wild.

Try explaining this one as customs x-rays your bag:

Available at Amazon – HERE

Using a modified version of Newton’s cradle, a series of stainless steel balls suspended by fishing wire, scientists from the California Institute of Technology have created a powerful weapon for soldiers and doctors known as a “sound bullet.”

Full Story – HERE

Luckily the article goes onto say that metamaterials ( which is what they refer to this field of science as ) are very difficult and time consuming to create.  Hopefully the TSA doesn’t blow this out of proportion or we will all be flying naked soon with gags in our mouths over fear of acoustic terrorism.

It will be interesting to see what new inventions and applications come out of this.

Hat Tip: SayUncle

The talk about Macgyver in the Disarm The Bomb Alarm Clock post reminded me of this gun related xkcd comic:

Source: xkcd

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A Florida woman said her love handles saved her life when she was shot entering an Atlantic City bar. Samantha Lynn Frazier said she heard two pops when she walked into Herman’s Place early Saturday. The 35-year-old then felt pain and saw blood on her hand after she grabbed her left side. Atlantic City police said Frazier was an innocent bystander.

Frazier told The Press of Atlantic City that ‘I could have been dead. They said my love handles saved my life.”

I don’t know who “they” are, but if she means doctors, I highly doubt any of them told her that the fact she had love handles actually saved her life.  Muscle is far more dense than fat, so having less fat and more muscle would have actually been even better at stopping a bullet.

Also, I highly doubt she was shot with anything but a mouse caliber and probably not a direct hit either.  My guess is that she got grazed, because the bullet wasn’t intended for her in the first place.

Frazier also told the newspaper that she had been “hollering” that she wanted to lose weight. She now said “I want to be as big as I can if it’s going to stop a bullet.”

Great perpetuation of a stereotype Associated Press, to print that she was “hollering” in quotations.  That made me LOL

Samantha wants to be as big as she can now to stop a bullet?  I’d suggest the opposite, and start working out and trimming down… that way she would be less of a target.  Another con of trying to be as “big as you can” is the health aspect… even if you think that will save you from bullets, how is it going to save you from dying prematurely from heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other diseases associated with obesity.

Samantha, please think this one through before you start eating McDonalds 5 times a day to stop bullets.

Source: Associated Press

Hat Tip: Stuff From Hsoi

CONNEAUT, Ohio – Michelle Pryor said early Monday morning their German shepherd Sirus began barking so she let him out and was stunned when she heard gunfire outside the home.  Sirus got shot in the chest and on the muzzle between his eyes.

Full Story – HERE

The dog sure doesn’t look any worse for wear in the video, I’m he is alright!

It’s stories like this that make me wish I had a dog.  German shepherds are my absolute favorite.  I’d have a couple of them in a heartbeat if I had a big yard for them to stay in.

Have any of your dogs helped you in a similar incident?

If you haven’t yet seen this movie, please go buy it (HERE) or rent it!

This is definitely one of the best opening movie scenes ever.  Not only is the camera work and computer graphics work well done, but the choice of song ( Buffalo Springfield – For What It´s Worth ) is absolutely perfect and sets the tone for the rest of the movie.

That song gives me goosebumps… it’s going on my ipod a.s.a.p.

Hopefully this was just done temporarily as “proof of concept”:

Looks like .308 for everything but the one through the nose, which appears to be 7.62×39

Look how much his ear lobes are stretched too.   He should have went all the way and put some 37mm (grenade! ) rounds through them!

Definitely not a look you would catch me sporting.

Miguel Caballero makes fashionable lightweight bulletproof clothing designed for the world’s elite.

A reporter from VBS.tv goes to Bogota Colombia for a tour of their factory, and gets shot with a revolver from about 1 foot away while wearing one of their jackets.

“I shoot all my employees” says Miguel.  It’s an initiation if you are an employee.

Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, although some of it does look a bit bulky.  Any protection at all beats no protection, and that clothing would definitely save some lives.

Very neat stuff.

Miguel Caballero website – HERE

CoBIS

Combined Ballistic Identification System

A system where the shell casing of a bullet, (or brass) from a fired round is supplied by a gun manufacturer in an approved container shipped with a new handgun that is shipped to the NY State Police when the gun is sold or if the new handgun is shipped to the Federal Firearms License holder, the FFL takes the gun to the State Police Lab to be test fired and the lab keeps the shell casing and the fired bullet.

• The shell casing is scanned into a computer data base to be compared against shell casing recovered from a crime location.
• This program has has NO success in NY while costing $4,000,000 to start and an estimated $4,000,000 a year to maintain or an average cost of about $200 per legal gun.
• CoBIS only collects information from legal guns that are new and have not been linked to a crime and the size of the data base in New York alone is in 10s of thousands of guns and will, within the first 3 years included almost 66,000 data files with almost 22,000 new handguns being added each year. (Source)

Questions:

1. This program is been around for 8 years and has had no success… so why is it still sucking up millions of tax payers money?
2. Does the shell casing always has to be matched to striations (marks from the guns rifling) on a bullet found lodged in something at the scene, and both of those tied back to the gun?  Or is it considered enough evidence if just two out of three are available?
3. Why would someone that is legally buying a gun want to take the risk of being in a database such as CoBIS?
4. Should we all take collecting our own brass at the range a lot more seriously if systems like this are going to be used to assign guilt?
5. Doesn’t the firing pin, and barrel rifling slightly change over time with normal wear?  How is this taken into account?
6. We know that criminals can pick up their casings at a scene, modify the rifling of the gun, modify the firing pin to produce a different imprint.  So why have a costly system that is rendered useless if even one of those happens?
7. Since New York isn’t an impenetrable fortress, where nothing can get in or out. What use is this database if a criminal can just bring in a gun from another state to commit a crime?

Hat Tip: Say Uncle

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