Show PAPER THAT STOPS BULLETS exper merits made by swed sh gov are interesting A series of interesting firing trials has been undertaken by the swed sh government the purpose of these experiments was to examine the effect of shooting against pasteboard the trials were conducted on the wharves of the swedish navy in karlskrona Karls krona and the target used was a prepared one of millboard against which fire from revolvers rifles carbines and machine guns was directed the pasteboard which was three inches thick resisted completely the bullets fired from the small arms but was perforated by the projectiles from the machine guns the experiments may be said to have given very interesting results bullets from the carbines used are able to penetrate wooden s five inches in thickness but they could not penetrate the paste board was three inches thick |