Posted October 31, 2014 10:00 am by Comments

By Dan Zimmerman

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By DrD

I’m not sure what would happen if there were no more internet discussions about “stopping power” as applied to handguns. What would we talk about? I am sure that it would be a better world, and there would be lots more available bandwidth. The stopping power of my brakes is easily determined, as is the (absence of) my power to stop eating chips and salsa. But when it comes to handguns, things get a little trickier.

What is “stopping”, exactly? From a physics point of view, we could say “stopping” is taking the momentum of an object to 0. In …read more

Via:: Truth About Guns

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