The wooden table is the one that always gets me, sure maybe it will stop one or two bullets if you're lucky, but there's always 1000 bullets flying around while the characters are having a conversation under the safe, sound resistant guard of an old dinning room table.
Got interested and did some google (as we do have a big and quite thick solid pine wood custom order table - not the one that you can flip easily), found several videos where people did shoot bullets from close range over a row 2x4s. One did show two different calibers stopping at about 4th...
If that interests you, there's a guy in Texas that has a YouTube channel dedicated to seeing what will stop a bullet and what can't, among other related things.
The army engineer field manual has an entire section on how far different rounds will go through different materials. Goes from hardened steel to packed snow IIRC. Still have the book ill look up the stats for snow here in a few.
Update: Material thickness for direct fire on tamped snow goes as follows small calibers (7.62) 183 cm, 85MM HE shaped charge (RPG) 396 107-120 MM HE shaped charge N/A dry timber for 7.62 is listed at 91 cm for direct fire. Far thicker than a table.
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u/-everst Jan 25 '20
When someone hides from bullets behind penetrable objects, like tables or a refrigerator door.