![]() Most household objects won’t reliably stop a bullet. ![]() More: Basic ways to harden your home against intruders and beginner’s guide to guns Imagine, for example, that you have to shoot an intruder coming up your stairs - but your child is sleeping on the other side of the wall where you’d aim towards. It’s also good to understand how different materials hold up to gunfire in case you need to defend yourself near innocent bystanders. If you hear a bump in the night, throw it on before you go stumbling about. So unless you’re in something purpose-built, such as a panic room, your best bet is to first avoid the danger, and if you can’t, put on hard body armor held in a plate carrier. There are plenty of ways to conceal yourself, but not many ways to cover yourself. The bad news is that there isn’t much in your house that will reliably stop a random bullet. This guide curates all of that testing onto one page. So it’s not hard to find out what works for cover and what doesn’t. Thankfully, the internet is full of firearm enthusiasts who have filmed themselves shooting pretty much every imaginable object.
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