the protests in Hong Kong have been going on since April of 2019
some people may judge these people as troublemakers others may see them as
Patriots but let's not forget that even in United States here we've had our own
rabble rousers in the past sometimes current events are judged differently by
historians
what we got here today is this was sent from Hong Kong and with all their
protests and everything going on over there they were wondering about body
armor and they don't have access to what we have here so one of our viewers sent
some aluminum plates don't mind the fancy contact paper covering here but
these are about 2.5 millimeter 8 inch somewhere right in there and we're going
to try these this this is gonna be the first in a series of some different
possible body armors but we're going to try out for them and well we've got four
plant four panels here what are the police using over there did they have
shot a couple protesters what I understand is 38 38 special it's like a
lot of our police used to use here mm-hmm anyway we're gonna try it out
with some what do we got 9 millimeter and 38 a little bit less power than the
9 so yeah pill stop 9 millimeter they all will definitely stop a 38 special
exactly try the 1 then we've got up to 4 plates for now we're gonna see if the
aluminum wheels I've got my doubts yeah yeah especially one plate you know I
think 9 millimeter in 45 is this gonna go right through it like butter I think
my pillow can we go through that yeah yeah maybe my slingshot
our we're at one point 9-millimeter I'm ready
as expected the single plate of aluminum provided almost no protection at all the
nine-millimeter bullet pass cleanly through the plate and right through the
test dummy to metal plate two aluminum plates nine millimeter
the two aluminum plates with no space at all between them didn't perform much
better than the single plate the bullet passed through both plates and again
through our test dummy
so far the aluminum plate body armor idea is not looking very promising it
must be from some kind of furniture or a door or something sometimes building
something this was nice for it but we're gonna go for three layers so we're just
going to do this fold this over what there you go there we go okay three
layers
okay now three plates again with 9-millimeter okay I'm ready
your games getting better
well they say the third time is the charm and it looks like we've have a
successful bullet capture this time
positive results this time too anyway I think we're a little bit better off this
time dougie - survived here on the table what is our bullet in this bullet plates
and no pass-through oh it almost did we got a one finger bulge here hahaha it's
almost like sweater bumper ok we passed you the first panel there's the
aluminium from the first panel it did not pass through the second panel ok so
should we put the fourth panel on there just to see if we get less of a bulge in
the back let's see what happens for layers
these are gum coming out of like a 10 inch barrel
dude by the way so we have a little higher velocity than out of a handgun
okay four layers ready
stopped it again okay good the punches of aluminum its punching out
oh yeah III thought there was a good chance for layers would not even stop
the 9-millimeter so I'm kind of surprised that three did that ball mo
you would think it would have the best chance of getting through right yeah
that's why we're not using the hollow points ball ammo will have penetrate
something like that better than a little better than a hollow point so far we've
only had to go all the way through yeah it's just one on two plates secondly it
stopped it on the third plate okay so you need at least three plates these are
three plates four nine millimeter ball ammo
what about 45 okay 230 grain 230 green 45 a-c-p most powerful round on the plan
according to some people 45 acp one layer that's like a bet do you think I
would go through I'm almost gonna guarantee you it's gonna go through okay
I'm ready when you are
as expected the 45 ACP easily penetrated the single layer of aluminum plate okay
two layers of aluminum 45 ACP ready when you are
much to our surprise two layers of this aluminum actually stopped the 45 ACP
remember that 45 ACP is twice the weight of the nine-millimeter used in these
tests but the velocity is also lower the energy from each bullet is actually very
similar but because the 9-millimeter has a smaller profile it's able to penetrate
the plates much better kind of settles 45 verses 9-millimeter argument doesn't
it well 45 my nook you on your butt but the 9 millimeters get better penetration
yeah it's smaller diameter and higher velocity so the two plates stopped it
right right that's amazing I did not expect that it did crack the second
plate but we didn't get passed through that kid really didn't pass through the
first one yeah second one back to this interesting I thought it would take it
probably three to stop the 245 also that's that's amazing
okay but will it stop the three five seven
governor we can find out four plates of a little employed thirst versus a 357
Magnum and these are critical defense I don't have ball ammo for this oh okay
sorry about that let's take one shot yeah okay 357 Magnum I don't think the
police used 357 they're using thirty eight and nine millimeter
but wouldn't be good to know if it'll stop a 357 Magnum I don't think it will
for it we have four layers there my prediction is it's gonna go through okay
I'm ready
it's in a bit going all the way through yeah okay what happened let's strip her
down here all right first plate there's no sick
complete stopped it in the second plate - the second plate amazing
almost went through little dent in the third night I thought for sure that
would go through well these are the critical defense Hornady's okay
Hornaday however you want to pronounce it potato potato
yeah but this is this meant to expand and mushroom it's got the polymer yeah I
didn't in in a soft hydrostatic condition you know but I I thought that
would go all the way through kind of stuck in there yeah very interesting
well I had no I gave these things no hope at all I really did I thought man
if it stops a nine millimeter I'd be very very surprised but as we saw it
stopped a nine millimeter and three sometimes two so if you have three
plates of these that will stop a 9-millimeter it'll definitely stop 45
and 357 Magnum did not expect that yeah we might stand
a chance yeah it's this is what I call better than nothing body armor if your
chances of surviving with something like this is a lot better than not having
anything oh yeah it's definitely gonna slow it down enough to you might survive
yeah reduce the injury but probably save your life I hope I hope this
informations into is useful I'm imagine toting around these things strapped to
your chest would not be very comfortable but it will save your life traverse the
vitals yeah good luck Hong Kongers you're gonna need it