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<blockquote data-quote="Corwyn_kop" data-source="post: 2742966" data-attributes="member: 33538">From what Ive read the kinetic shock from small arms isnt enough to knock someone down by itself.&nbsp; Now I have never (and have no intention of ever) put it to the test personally but I did see footage of an individual shot at about 2ft range with one of the HK 7.62 assault rifles while standing on one leg and he didnt stumble.&nbsp; They put a phonebook inside the vest for padding.&nbsp; Mind you,&nbsp; I cant say for certain that the footage was absolutely legit but I thought I would throw it out there.&nbsp; If anyone is interested, the footage was part of a video called &quot;Deadly Weapons&quot; which attempted to &quot;factfind&quot; on various things people believe about firearms.&nbsp; Its probably been about 15 years since I watched it and it seemed pretty&nbsp; informative for the absolute neophyte I was way back then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; &nbsp; To get off of the tangent, until we hit the technology=magic point, I really dont see energy weapons replacing ballistic weapons.&nbsp; The only way that I could see it happening is if there were some sort of cheap, reliable, and very effective means of stopping a piece of metal flying at high velocity.&nbsp; A personal shield or something that was readilly available and that would completely stop a projectile would do the trick maybe...and even then I think we are approaching the tech as magic line.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; By the way, I hope all is well with you Ralts and that we get more zombie goodness soon!! Corwyn</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corwyn_kop, post: 2742966, member: 33538"] From what Ive read the kinetic shock from small arms isnt enough to knock someone down by itself. Now I have never (and have no intention of ever) put it to the test personally but I did see footage of an individual shot at about 2ft range with one of the HK 7.62 assault rifles while standing on one leg and he didnt stumble. They put a phonebook inside the vest for padding. Mind you, I cant say for certain that the footage was absolutely legit but I thought I would throw it out there. If anyone is interested, the footage was part of a video called "Deadly Weapons" which attempted to "factfind" on various things people believe about firearms. Its probably been about 15 years since I watched it and it seemed pretty informative for the absolute neophyte I was way back then. ;) To get off of the tangent, until we hit the technology=magic point, I really dont see energy weapons replacing ballistic weapons. The only way that I could see it happening is if there were some sort of cheap, reliable, and very effective means of stopping a piece of metal flying at high velocity. A personal shield or something that was readilly available and that would completely stop a projectile would do the trick maybe...and even then I think we are approaching the tech as magic line. By the way, I hope all is well with you Ralts and that we get more zombie goodness soon!! Corwyn [/QUOTE]

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