Silicone in breast implants are bulletproof

Question

"Doctors noted that the silicone implant was likely responsible for deflecting the bullet’s trajectory – ultimately saving the woman’s life."

- CNN

Comments

This claim is very misleading. The articles claims the breast implant changed the trajectory of the bullets path, the implant itself did not reflect the bullet saving this women. It would be super helpful to add more context clues and information to make your claim more factual.

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This claim is untrue, the article does not explicitly claim that implants can stop a bullet, rather that in one rare instance they saved a woman's life. There is no evidence that silicone implants are bulletproof, the case the article cites is an anomaly. Most reliable outlets will firmly state that implants are not bulletproof.

Answer 1

This claim in the article states that the silicone in women's breast implants is bulletproof. That statement is not true, although it is true that the silicone did save a woman's life when she got shot up close; the bullet got lodged inside the silicone. However, according to an article on dr-adams.com, "The handgun they used fired bullets at 300 meters per second into blocks of ballistics gel 2.5 meters away. They then measured how deep the bullet penetrated. Afterward, they added a few large saline breast implants in front of the gel and shot it again. They found that the implant reduced the average distance the bullet traveled into the gel by about 20%." Going from that kind of research, I would say this is a little exaggerated.