From Deseret News archives:
Cannon joins raid, fires gun at target . . .
. . . in demonstration of war-training product
A nod induced another team member to break down the door of the house with his battering ram and the four men poured through the door, Cannon second in line.
The first three men quickly entered the first room on the left, where Cannon fired five live bullets into the team's target.
Of course, the target was a paper one and the drill was a staged photo opportunity. It's unlikely Cannon, R-Utah, will ever have to go office to office to clear the halls of Congress, but the demonstration was meant to show how a Provo company, Action Target, is contributing to the war effort in Iraq by building training facilities used by U.S. soldiers who need realistic training on clearing houses room by room.
In October, Action Target shipped a $3 million village consisting of seven bulletproof houses to Iraq, where soldiers use it to practice going door to door and room to room looking for insurgents.
The ability to safely fire live rounds helps soldiers simulate real combat situations.
"It means a lot more guys will come home safely."
Action Target's product is designed so the walls absorb the real bullets. That way, no stray bullets can leave the building during training and injure a bystander. The facility is also equipped with a new joint patented by the company that prevents bullets from penetrating between wall boards.
Although the company uses armor-plated steel, three-eighths of an inch thick, on the outer wall, there are no dangerous ricochets inside the building.
Action Target uses plywood or crushed rocks on the inside of the walls. Those materials break up and slow down the ammunition so it doesn't rebound when it hits the wall.
Cannon helped load the final pallet of another seven-building village training facility on Thursday. It is the second of two full villages Action Target was contracted to provide to the U.S. Army this year.
"Those two went to undisclosed military installations in the United States," said John Curtis, Action Target's chief operations officer.
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