What do we learn from this? This kind of U-Haul truck is a viable armored vehicle for reversing into a line of gunfire because this dude didnt even get hit at all after like 30 rounds were fired at the car.
I think another source reported he was shot in the stomach. And I saw a video of the truck after it was found—there were many bullet holes through the cab.
Edit: A later report clarifies that it was the bystander who was shot in the stomach, while the driver had a more minor injury.
Sandbags are remarkably effective at stopping small arms fire, at least as long as you can keep the sand in them. If you only stacked up the back wall of the truck right in front of the door and optionally if you only did it to waist height (you’d have to lie down behind them) it would absolutely work.
A typical hardware store sandbag is 60 or 80 pounds, and to stack up to a height of, say, four feet you’d probably need around 3200 pounds worth of them or so (40 bags) based on some rough back of the envelope math and hazy recollection of the approximate size of an 80 lb bag of sand. That may exceed the recommended load weight of your small box truck per the rental agreement paperwork or whatever the hell, but I don’t think in reality that would cause even a small U-Haul truck to struggle much.
Doing all four walls of the rear of the truck would probably take an inordinate amount of sand and wouldn’t be too viable.
What do we learn from this? This kind of U-Haul truck is a viable armored vehicle for reversing into a line of gunfire because this dude didnt even get hit at all after like 30 rounds were fired at the car.
I think another source reported he was shot in the stomach. And I saw a video of the truck after it was found—there were many bullet holes through the cab.
Edit: A later report clarifies that it was the bystander who was shot in the stomach, while the driver had a more minor injury.
I didnt look at other articles so i just assumed this was correct. Maybe he got out before the blood reached the seat.
Really, just pile up a layer of sandbags or whatever against the back door and you would be quite good to go.
So would that work? Sandbag armored vehicle sounds pretty heavy
Bullets dont do very well in a fight vs solid objects, the more solid the worse they perform
There’s a guy on the tube that shoots at a 6" square box of sand It stops almost everything…
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It’s already a truck.
Sandbags are remarkably effective at stopping small arms fire, at least as long as you can keep the sand in them. If you only stacked up the back wall of the truck right in front of the door and optionally if you only did it to waist height (you’d have to lie down behind them) it would absolutely work.
A typical hardware store sandbag is 60 or 80 pounds, and to stack up to a height of, say, four feet you’d probably need around 3200 pounds worth of them or so (40 bags) based on some rough back of the envelope math and hazy recollection of the approximate size of an 80 lb bag of sand. That may exceed the recommended load weight of your small box truck per the rental agreement paperwork or whatever the hell, but I don’t think in reality that would cause even a small U-Haul truck to struggle much.
Doing all four walls of the rear of the truck would probably take an inordinate amount of sand and wouldn’t be too viable.
Didn’t mythbusters prove phone books were effective armor?
Watch the whole video, bullets made it all the way through.