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A Spanish-language version of my post on shotgun dispersion was published recently in Etilmercurio, under the title of «Disparar a la cara» (“To shoot at the face”).
Read MoreConsideración breve de trauma ocular con los perdigones de “goma” utilizados por Carabineros, y una discusión de estándares de anteojos de seguridad.
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Nacho Saavedra, a defensive midfielder for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, covers his eye in recognition of Chileans who have partially or fully lost vision due to police action in the current protests.
Brief ballistic examination of potential ocular trauma with range with so-called “rubber shot” («perdigones de goma») used to suppress unrest in Chile, as well as a discussion of safety eyewear standards.
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Carabinero with a shotgun (source). It is not clear to me how accurate a shotgun deployed in this manner might be, but suffice to say this is not the recommended method of employ (with its stock folded).
I use a simple Monte Carlo model of my own construction and basic statistics to demonstrate that it is almost certain that the Carabineros have been shooting less-than-lethal rounds at the faces of civilians in Chile.
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For posterity’s sake: a Spanish-language version of my previous post was recently published in Etilmercurio, under the title “¿Perdigones de goma nomás? Usando la física para caracterizar las municiones menos letales de Carabineros” (“Just rubber shot? Using physics to characterize the less-than-lethal ammunition of the Carabineros”). In addition to being in Spanish, the article contains an additional analysis using the Carabineros’ own spec sheet on their own rubber shot, which demonstrates the pellets are even more dangerous than what my own analysis would suggest.
Many thanks to Chris Harrod and Cristina Dorador, who facilitated the article’s publication, and the Etilmercurio team for their tremendous help with proofreading and publication.
