Abstract
Automobiles (and most other vehicles to include trucks, buses, trailers, and mobile homes) present special reconstructive challenges. Their construction and makeup present a wide variety of surfaces susceptible to bullet impact. These include frangible materials such as the laminated glass in windshields and tempered glass in side and rear windows, malleable surfaces (sheet metal), heavy, unyielding metal structures (support members, the frame, engine, axels, etc.), various composites, soft materials (plastic, fabric, rubber moldings, insulation), tires, as well as various painted and unpainted surfaces. Each of these materials responds in different ways to impacting projectiles. The varied shapes and compound curvatures common in these motor vehicles add another complicating factor when bullets strike such areas.
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