How Many Interior Walls Will .22LR Bullets Penetrate?

By Bob Owens | 6:58 PM | May 04, 2016

There are some people who think that using .22LR as home defense ammunition means that there won’t be as much of a risk of over-penetration through walls if there is a miss.

22Plinkster fires at multiple layers of sheetrock to test that theory, and the results of his test suggest that even a tiny .22 can go from one end of your average home to another.

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.