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04-21-2016, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by JackD
Also if I have to ever use my carry PC shield in close quarters I believe that any flash burns will be soon forgotten if I live through the battle.
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In all probability... yes, but then again, if it's the eyes, maybe not.
Burning gases are capable of inflicting severe wounds to any flesh that is nearby, and the jet that comes out of the compensator can contain small particles of combustion material. These particles can be forced into an unprotected eye, causing severe pain and sometimes permanent damage. For this reason, compensators aren't usually recommended on self-defense guns, where they might be fired in close-quarters.
- Grant Cunningham: Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to Handguns
Guns that are magna-ported, hybrid-ported or otherwise compensated in such a way that they vent gases and gunpowder particles upward, The burning powder particles and hot gases can strike the shooter in the eyes, temporarily blinding them, disorienting them, and possibly causing permanent loss of some degree of vision.
- Combat Shooting with Massad Ayoob
Last edited by Mister X; 04-21-2016 at 10:48 PM.
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