.500 Smith & Wesson vs. "Bulletproof" Glass

By Bob Owens | 12:15 PM | August 16, 2015

Gun video star 22 Plinkster has several sheets of “bulletproof” glass and a .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum. Anyone want to take bets on what happens next?

This is the first video in my series “What will a 500 S&W Magnum Go Through.”

I was frankly a little stunned at what happened in the video, especially after seeing what Texas Armoring Corporation did with what I can only presume was a different grade of “bulletproof” glass that ate a dozen rounds of AK fire with their company CEO sitting on the other side of it.

It goes goes to prove the truism that there isn’t anything that is bulletproof, but there are materials that are more bullet resistant than others.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.