Would he have military ammunition?
Commercial 5.56 does it too. Most anything more powerful than a .22lr does it to some extent. Not sure what mechanism causes it, but the more powerful rounds knock the paint off in a neat circle around the hole. The .22lr doesn’t do it and sometimes doesn’t even make it through the sheet metal.
Thanks. That’s more information than we got from the news.
That’s what I was thinking, but cars have pretty thin bodies now days, and I have no experience with that, although there was a car at work with a couple of what I thought were 9mm holes, and just holes, no paint missing.
The Box o Truth’s sections on shooting into a car are interesting reading. From the holes in the pictures, and no ruler or caliper measuring them, I couldn’t tell you what put holes in that car. My first impulse was that it looked like buckshot (and I couldn’t tell you whether it was #1, #4, #00 or anything else) from 20 or so feet away, but I wouldn’t put any great weight behind that opinion.
Any definitive statement come out yet?