Shooting through windshield-from inside

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I have never tried this. I would think the muzzle against the glass;
aim and keep your eyes closed to avoid glass splinters.
Or would it be better to have some distance between the glass and the muzzle? The windshield would stay intact with a small hole?
Anyone have experience?
 
I'm thinking that if there is someone in front of my car that needs to be dead for one reason or another, Before I go for the gun, I would go for the GAS pedal, It would work just as good and your ears will still function.
 
i agree i think the noise would be horrible! i know a firearm in a house isnt EXTREMELY bad but, its not bad, inside a car would be really bad. also i have to ask like every1 else..why?
 
There may be some deflection if you are shooting through the windscreen. If the glass does fracture, which it shouldn't the energy will force the fragments outwards.

My biggest concern would be rupturing my eardrums.
 
Ask the guys over at "Tactical Response"......they do it in one of their classes.

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Putting the barrel directly against the glass seems like a terrible idea. If I had to, and I couldn't run whatever it was over, I would shot from a couple of inches back. Also the glass would mess with the accuracy so I wouldn't suggest it anyway.
 
IMHO, if someone is truly interested in self defense then they wouldn't be asking "why" someone would want to know about shooting from inside a vehicle. Maybe I'm a little biased being a police officer (we train for this) but it makes perfect sense to me. Yes...there is some logic in the "hit the gas" argument, but what if the person is just lateral of the vehicle shooting at you through the windshield. Wouldn't you want to return fire as soon as possible?
I can think of handfuls of arguments why you would want to train for this.
 
I actually did this.
It was at a junk yard.
I sat in the back seat and fired a shot through the front windshield.
Nothing happened, it put a hole in it.

I have no idea what I shot it with. This was in the late 1970s.
 
Inside shot, aim a bit high, it'll land low. Out side, vice versa. The angle has an effect of a few inches in the direction of the windshield slant. I think I saw this demonstrated on box o' truth.
 
I've done this in training with my M4. That obviously by no means makes me an expert. However, from the front passenger seat, I wore eye protection and was trained to hold my breath while shooting... So you don't breath in tiny shards of glass. Apparently, glass in lungs = bad.

Also the bullet will pass through the path of least resistance. In the case of slanted glass, it will bend the path until it is perpendicular to the glass. In other words, from inside a car, the bullet will hit the glass and go flying high. So... You can either aim low and try to compensate, but that is an iffy proposition at best... Especially as your target would be probably at least 10 ft in front of you if not much more. Plus, you may do like I did and send a few rounds through the hood when the rounds started going through the hole in the glass caused by previous rounds. So, the lesson was to just aim and shoot at your target and after enough rounds go through the glass to create a larger hole, you'll start seeings hits on your target.

Of course, the spider web cracks in your glass will probably start obstructing your aim. Assumedly, while you're firing, the driver (whose job it is to drive, by the way) is doing his or her best to get you away from or through your threat. In other words, chaotic, and you are probably not going to win any marksmanship awards. Hopefully, you'll survive long enough to get away or bail out and fight from cover.
 
Oh yeah, remember that your sights are higher than your barrel. If you are using your ACOG that is mounted on your carrying handle or something crazy and are aiming just above the hood, guess what? Your bullet will first go right through your dashboard... Etc.
 
I've not done it, but they did it on "American Guardian" or whatever it's called. The bullets ALL fragmented before they hit the target.

I call that a good thing to know. Don't expect a kill shot until your hole is big enough to let the bullet thru without being touched. This presumes, of course, the badguy didn't move at all (which is totally unlikely)
 
The objective of returning fire isn't always to kill your opponent. No BG in his right mind is going to stand there while rounds and broken glass are flying at him.
I'd think that even if you don't hit him, the return fire might chase him off the attack and give you a chance to find a way out of the situation.
 
The objective of returning fire isn't always to kill your opponent. No BG in his right mind is going to stand there while rounds and broken glass are flying at him.
I'd think that even if you don't hit him, the return fire might chase him off the attack and give you a chance to find a way out of the situation.
In what civilian scenarios are you legally empowered to use the notion of covering fire as a defensive approach?

Remember - you are criminally and civilly liable for every bullet that you shoot.
 
I'm not talking about blind covering fire. I am talking about the bullets being deflected by the glass by several inches or even feet and not being center mass stop shots.
 
to be honest if your having to shoot at someone through the windscreen things have gone seriously wrong time to get the hell out of dodge and talk to the nice lawyers once its all over.:mad:
 
Actually jeepmor, it's the other way around. Shooting from inside will deflect your shots upwards. As the bullet flies twoard the windshield the top edge will contact the glass first. This will slow the top of the bullet, causing it to angle upwards. The opposite it true for shooting in from the putide, aim slightly high as your rounds will end up being deflected down. Basically, bullets going through glass will deflect INTO the glass.

ETA: I just checked the box'o'truth and their results match what I said.
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/buickot1_2.htm
 
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