THe neighbour is clearly an idiot. He should have his firearms license removed. If you want to play around with guns in front of the mirror, unload it, or use airsoft.
I think that's pretty much nail on the head there. The first think i thought was thank christ that a: we don't really have guns over here, and b: we live in houses that can stop fast moving projectiles. But now i just can't get the image out of my head that he was jumping around his bathroom shouting "i could dance all day, i could dance all day, BOOM HEADSHOT!"
I would be quite surprised if a .22 LR could go through 6 inches of wood and still have enough energy to kill someone. I remember shooting at some rail-road ties (8" of old wood?) with a 9mm, 357 SIG, .357 Magnum, and .223. If my memory is correct, I don't believe many of the bullets went through, will have to contact other individual who was there to see if he remembers what made it through. L J
Neat information. I was right that a .22 could not penetrate 6" of solid wood. One of the things that I kinda dislike about that demonstration is the fact that there is a gap between the boards. It may not skew the results a whole lot, but I think that the results might be different if they used a solid piece of wood. Unofrortunately, that would be quite difficult. . . I'd like to see the test done with the boards pressed togother as opposed to spread apart. L J
With the boards together, from what I can work out briefly at 2.51am, the bullets would stop quite a bit faster. While there'd be less distance to travel overall, the fact that the shrapnel created by each individual board wasn't discarded on the other side of each individual board(I think, meaning it'd have to push twice as much shrapnel through the hole it was creating with each new board it was going through) would slow the bullet down quite considerably.
Maybe it was the muzzleloader or a magnum. One of those useless bits of trivia from summer camps long past. Still, an American wall isn't going to do much at all, and even a good shot to some fairly thick wood will leave you concerned (the .22 went through six layers equalling just over four inches). So even if your neighbor manages to hit drywall, the 2x4 stud the long way and the drywall on the other side, it still might be moving at a painful if not deadly pace on the other side.
Specofdust- the idea that the splinters would not be cleared away and thus more chunks of wood to shove through the whole is exactly what I was thinking. Like when you drill through a piece of wood, the exit hole is rarely ever clean. The edges of a board are weaker than the center of the board. So even if you are going through say three 1/2" pieces of wood, if the last 1/16" or 1/32" of each board is considerably weaker, than I believe it's safe to say that is not the same as penetrating 1.5" of solid wood. Firehed- I don't doubt that .22 long rifle could penetrate a wall. I really don't believe a standard interior wall will stop much of anything. L J
