Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Carhartt jacket stops 4 rounds of 124+p from 9mm?

"Four of the shots that cops fired at a madman waving a knife in Midtown failed to penetrate his jacket — which was not bulletproof — and the NYPD will now check the weapons for malfunction, law enforcement sources told The Post.” The Post reports that the non-bullet-resistant jacket in question was a Carhartt.

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...nypd-speer-gold-dot-p-9mm-hollow-points/

Now for the video test:

https://youtu.be/A4FqEEgq9eA

Good thing Shoemaker's bear wasn't wearing Carhart.

Is Ozark Trail just as good for 75% less?

Well if you watch the video, you can see that 5 rounds of 124+p gr 9mm gold dots, 90 gr 380 gold dots and even 5 rounds of 22LR all sent 5 rounds through a Carhartt jacket at varying angles and through a 6" block of ballistic gelatin after it went through the jacket....

Now for the rest of the story ....
June 3rd 2016

Odds are hovering right around 100% that Mr. Conrad was shot in one part of his torso, the bullets pass through his body and expanded as they are designed to do, had just enough energy to punch through the skin on the opposite side of his body, and then was stopped as it hit the back side of the jacket.

Today, the NY Daily News confirmed that that is precisely what happened.

The bullets cops fired at an unhinged, knife-waving stagehand in a deadly off-Broadway confrontation last month were not defective — as one report had erroneously suggested, police said Thursday.

On May 18, an NYPD sergeant and an officer fired nine shots at Garry Conrad, after the enraged man approached three cops with an 8-inch blade on Eighth Ave. and 49th St. Conrad did not survive.

Another outlet’s erroneous report suggested two bullets didn’t penetrate Conrad’s non-bullet-proof Carhartt jacket, but Inspector Emanuel Katranakis on Thursday reiterated what police told the Daily News at the time.

“The ammunition and the projectiles functioned as designed,” Katranakis said.

The bullets did not penetrate the back of Conrad’s jacket.

“There was not enough energy to perforate the rear articles of clothing. This is not the first time. This is a common occurrence,” Katranakis said.

Well that's just discouraging

I thought sure if I wore my carhartt jacket I could lip off at the popo & point a weapon at them


Hmmm gonna have to rethink this strategy

One less stage hand can't be a bad thing.....