Do you think a padlock shot solves it? It takes much more than that; check out

Action movies and games have a scene that often appears at times when the protagonist is cornered and needs to escape: a lock being blown off by a gunshot. A mere shot, just one, and that's enough to open the lock. But ... Does it happen in real life like this? No way. This is what the video above proves.

Published on YouTube by DemolitionRanch, the content shows that the reality is very different from what we see in Hollywood and in electronic games. The shooter had to use different weapons and gauges to figure out the amount of “effort” required to break a lock.

It took 22 and 9 mm caliber bullets, Barrett M82 rifle shots, and even shotgun shots (which have the imposing 12 caliber). After all that, the lock suffered only a little scratch that has some opening. It seems that fiction can do better than that, definitely ...

Video shows that it takes an arsenal of bullets in a lock to break it! Tell us what you think about this in the TecMundo Forum.