Earlier it was reported that the NYPD shot a man five times and only one bullet managed to penetrate the Carhartt Jacket he was wearing at the time.
To test the theory that Carhartt Jackets are indeed bullet proof, one was taken to the range and common hand guns were tried.
It didn’t go well for the jacket.
I smell a rat, when I saw this I knew it was bs.
Why?
Are bucking for new guns?
My Bullshit Meter pegged when I heard that bullets were bouncing off a heavy jacket. Of course when you hear unemployment is less then 5% and inflation is under 2%, these kind of stories sorta pale in comparison. It just goes in one ear, is labeled bullshit & won’t affect me, and goes out the other ear.
For bullshit to linger and take up valuable brain space, it needs to be on the magnitude of Obama/Jarrett going to Hiroshima on Memorial Day weekend to call our saving literally millions of lives by using the atomic bomb, evil. Now that there is some WGB(weapons grade bullshit)
Not all Carhartt jackets are created equal. The one this guy shot is a 3 season jacket, the Arctic series is much more dense.
Oh shit! I’m sure Carhartt was betting on the ghetto rats buying millions of them and the price skyrocketing (not that Carhartt had anything to do with the bullshit story, in the first place).
izlamo delenda est …
So the NYPD shot 5 times and hit their target once (20% accuracy).
That’s better than the 17% accuracy stats for law enforcement nation wide.
Why lie about it, they’re above average by the stats.
Carhartt makes a variety of jackets. Some tougher than others. But no gun person in their right mind thought they were bullet proof, or even bullet resistant for that matter.
If this story is true I would like to offer a logical explanation how it could happen. Unlike the jacket draped over the ballistic gun fights are not static. If the perp had the jacket unzipped and the rounds were striking the jacket to one side or another while he was moving that round could actually be trying to penetrate two maybe even three layers of jacket. If the fibers were tough enough to get that round to open up that might be enough to stop it inside the jacket. The only thin part of that theory is it happening 4 times. But hey, we are talking about a police force that shoots more by standers than bad guys.
ballistic jell
My strong opinion is that the cops missed and lied about it.
However, there is one scenario missing in the video test: a glancing shot similar to what Brad alludes to. All the shooting in the video is straight-on at 90°. What would have happened with, say, only 30°, which would be about right if a center-of-mass shot was off to either side by eight or 10 inches? Which, by the way, seems to be better than average accuracy for NYPD cops.
I like Carhartt stuff, but it isn’t certified or meant to be bulletproof.
There are numerous stories of other types of ordinary clothing stopping projectiles. So it is plausible, but more than likely can be attributed to multiple factors aligning in this instance.
Besides wasn’t Mercury in retrograde recently?
If a thug is wearing a heavy coat, shoot the sumbitch in the head.
JFK: “If only they were made back then and I had one draped over my head I would have seen the moon landing.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin
Gel with a G
It’s not Jello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9UxDu4smlI
He was wearing a Carhartt coat over the body Armour he swiped from a New York PD cruiser.
I suspect the rounds were compromised. Probably spent too much time in the magazine sprayed with WD-40.
@Zookeeper – there were more rounds fired than there were cop guns, meaning that the ammo was still energetic enough to be able to do the extract, eject, cock, chamber, lock cycle. So, not very likely the ammo was weak.
I hate spelling Nazis. And grammar Nazis.
Just sayin’.
Not real fond of punctuation Nazis either…
Only thing he didn’t try was an actual cold weather canvas carhartt.