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ICE Goon Shoots Bed in Neighboring Hotel Room While Fiddling With His Gun
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Is nobody asking how you could shoot through a wall in a hotel with a sidearm? I mean, how thin can these hotel walls be? Would you not hear your neighbor scratch their head through these walls?
Asking in European where walls are made of brick or concrete.
If the drywall is thin enough you can just push your finger through it.
Buildings here can also be made of concrete or brick but normally interior walls are drywall and timber.
Bullets penetrate wood and drywall easier than bodies. This is why home defense rounds normally have lower penetrating power.
The real take away here is not the wall composition, but the fact that armed idiots with blanket immunity are shooting off their firearms inside.
It’s so American that we need special ammo because our buildings aren’t built well.
Why do you believe filling interior dividing spaces with bulky and heavy materials should be considered "building well"?
Because then nobody can hear me fucking.
I sad laughed at this
Interior walls in the US are typically made with a wood or metal frame inside and a sheet of gypsum drywall on each face. How well they get block sound depends on how thick the drywall is. It's no surprise that a bullet would go through the drywall though. Presumably it did not hit a stud.