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A full fledged .50 Barrett firing armor piercing rounds won't go through a cast iron engine block.

Say WHAT? I guarantee I can load up some CAST 44 Magnum loads that will bust a cast engine block all to pieces. Hell,jacketed 357 Magnums were doing this in the 30's. That's one of the reasons they were developed and accepted for police use. Cast iron is so hard it's brittle.

I've got an old video shot about fifteen years ago that shows all kinds of different calibers being used against all kinds of different targets, including magnum pistol rounds being shot through windshields, side windows, car doors, etc. Some of the more interesting moments include the firing of a Barrett .50 through a tiny little bush, having the round hit a little branch smaller than your pinky, and then punching through a paper target about twenty yards downrange. The .50 round was flying completely sideways by that point, punching a hole in the paper that looked like a perfect outline of the round if you had laid it on the paper and traced a pencil around it.

The point of the video was to show how average rounds behave in real world conditions, and how even huge rounds can be affected by little things. Another of the images shown in the video was a gentleman firing a .357 right at the side of an old V-8 engine block. The round barely left a scratch. However, this round was a standard jacketed round, a slug of lead in a copper jacket. I'm sure you can put together a custom load that will penetrate or even shatter an engine block, if that is what you design the round for. But the average ammo that the average person is going to buy off the shelf just isn't going to do what these press guys are claiming. Heck, most of these presstitutes havn't even fired a gun in their whole lives. Probably do them a world of good.