Movies Lie?
According to this intriguing study, you cannot just shoot a padlock off with a sidearm, the way they do in the movies. Your best bet is to lug around a shotgun (which also can pierce ballistic resistant glass, with the right slugs). The summary at the bottom of the page:
Lessons learned:
1. “How hard is it to shoot off a lock?” Answer: Very hard.
2. Pistols won’t shoot a lock off or even penetrate the lock.
3. Pistols are pistols and rifles are rifles. Enough said.
4. I now understand why our troops are often seen carrying “breeching shotguns” on their backs and a rifle in their hands. Shotguns will blow a lock off. Rifles will blow holes through a lock, but will not reliably shoot one off.
5. The rifles went through the locks with ease. It is obvious that you could “knaw” off the lock, little by little with a rifle, but a shotgun does it with one shot.
Elsewhere Online | Kabitzin 11/26/2005
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By Velius, 11/28/2005 @ 12:31 pm
He should have tested C4, I bet that’s even better than the shotgun as you can just blow the entire building away thereby eliminating the need to ever go through the doors again!