wire, and your reaction to these sort of things? governor abbott has done a fantastic job of keeping everything in the light and we re trying to do things when other people are ignoring the problem or saying a problem doesn t exit. you ve got a lot of naysayers and say they re not going to stop it. it s not just so much about stopping, but deterring some of the traffic, allowing law enforcement to get into those areas and apprehend the individuals still trying to come across. it s many things, deterrents, timing, and deport certain resources in the right direction because as we know, the administration has created was hey, come one, come all. it doesn t matter how your criminal record is at this point and who has been controlling the drug cartels. something like this is a huge magnitude because it allows the
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it is a block of 23% gelatin and it is meant to represent the human tissues. is soft tissues. reporter: watch as the team hires a handgun round at 1,000 feet per second into the gel pin block. you see it come in on this side, you see the temporary cavity happening, that expansion is what happens in the body and then it collapses down. so that is where your damage comes. reporter: now watch as a team fires a round from an assault rifle. we see a lot more disruption, this round actually breaks apart, it doesn t exit so it is about 3,000 feet per second and all of that energy goes into the soft tissue. we have a piece of plastic here to reflect to do the videos. and it actually lifted the plastic up off the table with the energy. reporter: an aftermath photo of the handgun round shows a relatively straight line through the tissue, exiting the other side. but not so with the round from an ar-15. it basically goes into the body and creates an explosion inside the body. repor
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asphalt, radiator fluid. reporter: that shooting changed policy, prompting the lapd and other departments to upgrade their own weaponry to counter the guns used by assailants. that firepower from weapons is studied inside a ballistics lab in wayne state university, where researchers simulate a bullet s impact on the human body. it s a block of 20% gelatin, meant to represent soft tissue. reporter: watch as they fire a hand gun round into the gel tin block. for this round, you ll see the bullet come in on this side, you ll see this temporary cavity happening. so that expansion is what happens in the body and then it collapses down. so that s where your damage comes in. reporter: now watch as they require a round from an assault rifle. we see a lot more disruption. this round breaks apart, it doesn t exit. so it s about 3,000 feet per second, and all of that energy goes into the soft tissue. we have a piece of plastic here