#Drywall

In almost any gun store or forum, you can find someone who can’t wait to give you unsolicited information. A lot of the “advice” that Over Eager Jerry likes to “share” with you is stuff that has been repeated ad nauseam in gun circles, but it isn’t always backed up by facts. For example, they might soberly warn you against choosing a modern sporting rifle, hand loads, NFA devices, or other scary things for defense because an “overzealous prosecutor” will get you locked up. I swear they read this shit from a script. It’s the sort of urban legend that sounds plausible on the surface so people just accept and repeat it without any sort of critical thinking. No one has ever been locked up for using a scary, but a legal gun.

While I am sure that most would opt to select .223/5.56 NATO over .22LR for home defense, but I have heard the argument that .22 would be “better” for home defense since its reduced energy would mean that it would penetrate through fewer walls. On the flip side, others argue that the 5.56 would be better as the round would tumble dissipating its energy and thus penetrate less.

BulletSafe makes bullet proof vests out of Troy, MI. Tom tests his vest against a Desert Eagle .50AE and repeats the test against his own version of the Box O’Truth. His box has 24 layers of drywall. I am not sure what he is trying to prove with the drywall as many of us know that drywall is not remotely bullet resistant.