Disclosure

• Dr. Y directed the overall experimental effort. He also designed the bullet projector and developed a set of protocols for the experiments. The reproducibility of the experiment was excellent.

• Dr. Y and the author had extensive discussions on various aspects related to the damage reconstruction effort. The author's engagement was mainly in consulting with experts in different scientific disciplines, as well as rallying support for the experiment. The author has also communicated with several experts in forensic science.

• The experiment effort benefited from consultation with experts in dynamics, impact engineering, thermal dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, physiology, textiles, and several senior physicians.