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I was thinking about how fire guns are very loud and how its worst in close environments (I had never shot a gun cuz im not american) and I remembered the Mirror room scene in John Wick Chapter 2.

I was thinking if by shooting once, many mirror could break because of the sounds of a gun alone. Has someone tried this or see it happen?

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[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago

It's possible but not likely or common. Glass is stronger than most people give it credit for. Most "hollywood" glass is actually panes of sugar. You could certainly arrange things so that the gun's pressure wave has a good chance of stressing and breaking glass, but it would take special preparations and effort and the gun would probably have to be very close to the glass. It's almost unheard of for it to happen normally unless you specifically shoot at the glass.

Someone like mythbusters could probably test this pretty effectively, but based on my experience around guns and glass, I suspect they'd come to the same conclusion.

A not directly related but still interesting video was done by the slowmo guys on youtube

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