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From: jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Deadly Weapons video (re-1:3)
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 14:35:58 EST
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Author: hplabs!oliveb!olivee!gnome@ucbvax (Gary Traveis)

Article: 1:13

Ok, because our friends in Canada can't get hold of the DW tape...

No, a .357 magnum will NOT go through an engine block.  The
best that any "normal" gun can do is make a smudge on the
surface or possibly hit something in the engine compartment
a little more delicate (like the distributor cap or fuel/electrical).

And NO, shooting a gas tank will not make it explode.  They even
tried using tracer bullets and that didn't even do it.  If I
remember correctly, they may have gotten it to explode by hitting
it with an incendiary bullet  -- but incendiary bullets make a
pretty big boom when they hit.

At the end of the film, they drag out a 50mm anti-tank gun with
incendiary, tracer, and armor-piercing bullets and completely
demolish a car.  THOSE rounds will go through an engine block
like butter.  Yow!

I guess there are enough people out there that can't get the
tape -- I guess I can do a detailed review at a later date.

Gary