Someone make this because I don't know how Options

[James]

Let's see here. A few nights ago, I was watching a documentary on bullet proof vests. The problem is that they can't really protect your entire body and if they do then they're too cumbersome. I didn't think anything else of it after that though. Just something cool to watch on the History channel.

Then yesterday, I'm sitting in my office, thinking about random things, tossing my orange from hand to hand. Then the bullet proof vests came to me. It would be cool if you could stop the bullet before it actually hit the vest. Kind of like I would stop the orange before it hit my palm by catching it with my fingers. Granted, that was a lot slower, but it still seems like it would work. Make a lightweight material that you could wear and it has a bunch of feelers on it. They would react to incoming bullets, catch them, and drop them. The other benefit would be that the person wearing this vest wouldn't even get bruised. That would be amazing.

All this is fine and dandy, but I don't know how to even construct this. I know most bullets have a tin/lead material in the actual projectile, so that rules out using magnetism to detect and catch. If enough bullets are flying at you, I don't think a computer could be made small enough to detect all the projectiles fast enough, but if it could, what would they control to catch the bullets. I guess with enough frictional force, you could bring the bullet to a halt. How to make this though? I don't know. You figure it out. I just think that if this actually came into existence that it would be very beneficial to both our police officers and military.

[FORSAKENR320]

[quote=James,Feb 23 2006, 02:30 PM] mythbusters did it too. [/QUOTE]
Was it true or was it a myth? [/QUOTE]
being under warer protected you rromhigh powered rifles. a plain 9mm handgun had more penetration than the rifles. [/QUOTE]
Which bullets are more massive? Handgun or high powered rifle? I think it's handgun just from looking at the bullets. Seems like the bullets designed for high powered rifles are more aerodynamic and designed more for precision than power. [/quote]
if you want shear stopping power, not much beats a 12 gauge slug for impact value, unless you get into wierd guns. low velocity, water wouldn't give much protection. you sacrifice range for mass, i was taught in my commissioning class that a bullet proof vest on a target will protect them from penetration, but the impact shock will still kill. rifles may or may not work on a vest, depending on if the vest has trama plates. the police officer that trained me said that when confronted with an armored suspect, they reach for either snipers, or the slug shotguns. rifle would depend more on the ability to penetrate through a target, and less on the impact. a 9mm in a vest still feels like someone hit you in the chest with a sledgehammer, a slug would be the equivelent of getting hit by a car.


most rifles would have better range, power, and more likely to deliver a killing wound.

but this is texas, theres a gun for every situation, we pick them like a golfer chooses from his clubs.