Engineering:Wooden bullet
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Wooden bullets are wooden projectiles designed to be fired from a gun. They are intended to be used as less lethal weapons for crowd control by enforcing pain compliance at a distance.[1] They have been known to raise large welts or bruises on their targets.[1][2]
History of use
During the Second World War, some German troops were equipped with wooden bullets,[3] while British troops were trained with wooden bullets to avoid the cost of metal bullets.
Wooden bullets were also used by British troops in Hong Kong.[2] During a 2014 protest in Missouri following the shooting of Michael Brown, the police fired wooden bullets at protesters.[1] During the 1999 WTO anti-globalization movement in Seattle, the police shot wooden bullets at protesters.[4]
A team of research engineers in Wisconsin used 12-foot-long (3.7 m), 15-pound (6.8 kg), 2-by-4 pine bullets propelled at 100 miles per hour (45 m/s) by an air cannon to test the resistance of tornado shelters made of wood.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jon Swaine (12 August 2014). "Missouri police fired wooden bullets at crowd during protest over teen's death". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/12/missouri-police-wooden-bullets-protest-michael-brown.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "LESS LETHAL FORCE: Proposed Standards for Massachusetts Law Enforcement Agencies". American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. http://aclum.org/sites/all/files/education/less_lethal_report.pdf. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
- ↑ History: Wooden Bullets, Trailblazersww2.org
- ↑ McNichols, Joshua (19 November 2019). "A cop shot this wooden bullet at me at the WTO protests in Seattle. Here's the story it tells". Kuow.org. https://www.kuow.org/stories/what-a-wooden-bullet-tells-us-about-1999-seattle. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
- ↑ Barry Adams, On Wisconsin: Wooden bullet helps researchers make affordable shelters, Madison.com, 11 May 2014
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