The
Polyshok projectile will penetrate both laminated and tempered auto glass
at all but extreme angles, and can produce incapacitating and/or fatal
wounds up to two feet beyond the point of impact.
For this demonstration we placed a piece of 1/2"
thick structural plywood 2 feet behind a piece of OEM windshield glass set
at a 45 degree angle. We then fired a Polyshok I.R.P. round through
the windshield and through our 1/2" structual plywood "bad
guy" without breaking our glass backstop 10 feet downrange.
Medically supervised tests indicated the resulting
wounds resembled blunt impact type wounds, more than conventional gunshot
wounds, with substantial tissue and bone trauma. The medical team deemed
them comparable to a heavy impact from a baseball bat or even a
sledgehammer, and considered them incapacitating with a high potential of
lethality.
An important advantage of using Polyshok ammunition
is that when fired into an automobile the total lethal potential is
typically expended within that specific vehicle, and poses very little
danger to other traffic even in the immediate vicinity.
Store Front Glass:
This is typically ¼" heat strengthened or
tempered glass, and even though harder, offers slightly less ballistic
resistance than laminated auto windshield glass. Polyshok ammunition will
typically penetrate this type of glass at up to a 45 angle with little
deflection.