Gunman Pokes Holes In the Theory That You Can't Shoot Open a Padlock

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Thursday, August 19th, 2010

PopMech posted an interesting story testing multiple padlocks against multiple stressors including a “Salt Fog” test for rust resistance and, it seems, a gun test.

Not to spoil things, but the Master lock was the only one that survived a gunshot to the gut. Everyone else shattered and ran away crying.

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