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Thread: 37mm Stopper feedback?
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09-01-2022, 14:44 #21
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Re: 37mm Stopper feedback?
The person that called that material, coming out of the barrel, rubber clearly haven't seen or touched a piece of rubber. That baton was closer to hard plastic or teflon.
There were several "experienced" rioters who could block a round quite well with a dustbin lid used as a shield. The baton combined with a D cell battery story might be the truth because the ABS guys were always looking for old D cells. The trajectories were different between the baton and battery and that made them less easy to block/deflect.
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09-01-2022, 15:04 #22
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Re: 37mm Stopper feedback?
The D Cell story is absolutely true, a former POP SAP member told me this on more than one occasion (from his personal experience). As for the 'rubber' in the stopper, you're 100% correct; it was hard as concrete and despite what folks say; these were indeed fired directly at 'rioters'. I heard of an incident where a 'rioter' was shot in the head with one of these...
When a close friend of mine died a few years back, I found several dozen of the .37mm CS rounds (SAPS happily claimed them) in his house (he was a firearms dealer and SAAACA member) but he was a naughty boy.
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09-01-2022, 21:16 #23
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