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Cop-flashlights eating bullets by accident. (discuss.tchncs.de)
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I've heard of a lot of stories where cops will get into a shootout with criminals, and their flashlights end up stopping at least one bullet.

Has anyone else ever heard of such a thing happening?

Donut operator is a youtuber that's talked about that many times.

If anyone has some old aluminum flashlights that don't work anymore and you also have guns, maybe make a video testing how bullet proof they are?

I mean, obviously, high velocity AP rounds would destroy almost anything, but the common calibers for magazine feed pistols and even some common calibers for magazine feed rifles are stopped by the average tactical flashlight.

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[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I’ve heard the term used that it’s a “bad barrel” as in, the police system as it stands is so easily abused by cops that it’s less a matter of a “bad apple” since they’re all in the same barrel. Food for thought.