I have some ballistic nylon knife sheaths and I think a gun holster that is as well. They’re just tear resistant, not bullet proof. If memory serves, ballistic nylons were used in WWII for flak jackets. Not very effective.
I wonder how a loose hung 4×8″ thin sheet of kevlar fabric would do… the idea being that go ahead and let the bullet punch through the inside drywall, as long as it’s dragging an unbroken kevlar sheet with it; energy would dissipate pretty quickly as long as the strands stay together and the worst damage is that you’ve got a fist-sized hole in your drywall with a finger-poke of kevlar sticking through with a bullet dangling in it.
December 5th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
I have some ballistic nylon knife sheaths and I think a gun holster that is as well. They’re just tear resistant, not bullet proof. If memory serves, ballistic nylons were used in WWII for flak jackets. Not very effective.
December 6th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
I wonder how a loose hung 4×8″ thin sheet of kevlar fabric would do… the idea being that go ahead and let the bullet punch through the inside drywall, as long as it’s dragging an unbroken kevlar sheet with it; energy would dissipate pretty quickly as long as the strands stay together and the worst damage is that you’ve got a fist-sized hole in your drywall with a finger-poke of kevlar sticking through with a bullet dangling in it.
December 6th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Sorry, that should read four by eight FOOT sheet.