All
too often violent offenders will use any available group of people as
cover. This can range from a bank robber taking hostages, a gunman using a
bus or subway for an escape, or even the terrorist looking to kill or
wound the most people possible in a bomb attack. In any of these
situations there are innocent people in very close proximity to the
target.
To demonstrate the close quarter potential of the
Polyshok I.R.P., we placed 2 one-gallon plastic containers filled with
water 3 feet apart with a layer of denim cloth between them. (The
denim is used to illustrate that normal clothing would prevent injury in
this scenario.)
We then fired an I.R.P. round through the first
container directly toward the second one. The water being carried by
the pressure wave knocked the second container off the stand but otherwise
left it completely undamaged.
Polyshok is perhaps the best ammunition ever
developed for this type of situation. Even in the unlikely event the round
does fully penetrate a human target, the possibility of inflicting
unintended injuries downrange is almost nonexistent. Beyond two feet past
the intended target the round could be considered, for all practical
proposes, harmless.