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.
I’ve got reliable knowledge of handguns, optics, and full magazines all eating incoming bullets. It doesn’t seem absurd that a flashlight on a belt or vest pouch to eat a bullet especially considering the random hodgepodge of low powered rounds (.22lr, .25, .32, .380 as examples) that seem popular in crime. I’d totally put rifles or even 9mm out of mind, as various low power pistol rounds (somewhere in the ballpark of 200j of energy) would be more likely to be stopped, and that’s what I’d test if doing backyard science. I don’t have a specific instance of a flashlight stopping a round on hand, but it’s a metal object claimed to be blocking a potentially low energy incoming round, seems plausible.