re: WTF Philly? Proposed ban on bulletproof glass.

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bulletproof glass

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I'm being pedantic, but it's bullet-resistant glass.

Most of the stuff you see in convenience stores isn't even level-1 BR glass(level 1 stops a 9 mm). It's just thicker acrylic meant to give the perception of security. Actual BR glass is stupid expensive. You're talking at least a 50x multiplier on level 1 material cost when compared to standard glass and acrylic. For example, I priced a 24x36 BR window the other day. Regular glass in the opening would have cost the customer $28 and BR glass would have been $2000. I price several convenience stores a year and they routinely run $20k or so and none of them end up doing it.

Back to Philly's law, that's dumb as shite.