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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
My view is that the ability to shoot and kill someone through a internal wall is the most anyone can expect of a handgun. We have heard that a Glock did this from another poster, I suspect it is possible if the wall is made of plasterboard or cardboard. I am talking about shooting and killing/maiming through a supporting wall in an average bricks and mortar house.
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I hesitate to present two points, as it feels like I'm wasting my words, since so far you've got a track record of only replying to one point at a time and ignoring the rest.
1. Can you provide any documentation or videos showing the 50AE's ability to penetrate brick and mortar and still inflict lethal injury?
Here is a penetration test done on wood, where the 50AE has the same penetration as .357, and FAR less than the X-Frame Smith and Wesson caliber's we've already mentioned.
2. What possible purpose would shooting through a brick wall and killing someone on the other side have in the real world? If someone is on the other side of a brick wall from me, I have no need to shoot them, as they are not a threat. Furthermore, even with an interior wall, it is criminally negligent to shoot at something without positive target identification, which (unless you can see through a brick wall) you will not have. Finally, ignoring the above, I do not know how you intend to fire usefully through a wall, allowing for the path deviations, and still make a useful centermass hit.
My ideal handgun round, if I were able to craft one, would penetrate clothes and soft tissue, abruptly expand to the size of a jagged silver dollar, cause massive hydrostatic shock and permanent tissue deformation, and transfer all of its kinetic energy to the target--meaning no exit wound, the slug would remain in the target. It would also somehow dissolve into a fine harmless powder the instant it struck glass or drywall. It certainly would not penetrate brick.