Shrapnel creates jagged punctures. JHPs do not work the way you think. They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel. FMJs are much more likely to fragment into pieces upon impact. The FBI apparently is taking trumps word for it, but odds are trump being hit with something one of the bullets hit.
Trump’s ear isn’t a steel plate, its a very thin piece of flesh, it doesn’t absorb much energy before breaking.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin#Calibration] I’m no physicist, but if a smaller and much slower BB penetrates over 3.3in through solid flesh, I think the less than half an inch of an ear will not absorb much of the bullets energy.
I think you’re missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it’s way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet. The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.
I think you’re missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it’s way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet.
Why does it being small make that more likely? There is a photo of a bullet going right past his head.
The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.
Exactly, a picture of one going right past his head, he was damn near at a right angle to the shooter. He didn’t turn fully to star at the shooter, so unless he’s made of ar500 plates the odds of that being a bullet is basically 0.
Shrapnel creates jagged punctures. JHPs do not work the way you think. They mushroom out to create a larger wound channel. FMJs are much more likely to fragment into pieces upon impact. The FBI apparently is taking trumps word for it, but odds are trump being hit with something one of the bullets hit.
So?? I’m confused what that has anything to do with whether he was grazed, or penetrated lightly.
Yes in flesh.
Fragmenting nor expansion are going to happen in something as thin as an ear.
I don’t endorse this Youtuber, but its pretty clear that amount of flesh takes basically no energy from the bullet
Trump’s ear isn’t a steel plate, its a very thin piece of flesh, it doesn’t absorb much energy before breaking.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin#Calibration] I’m no physicist, but if a smaller and much slower BB penetrates over 3.3in through solid flesh, I think the less than half an inch of an ear will not absorb much of the bullets energy.
I think you’re missing the point here, the knick he had on his ear was so damn small that it’s way more likely it was a piece of something from the podium vs a piece of a bullet. The angle also mean if that was a round or piece of a round his head would have been in the way.
Why does it being small make that more likely? There is a photo of a bullet going right past his head.
Do you have a source for that?
Exactly, a picture of one going right past his head, he was damn near at a right angle to the shooter. He didn’t turn fully to star at the shooter, so unless he’s made of ar500 plates the odds of that being a bullet is basically 0.