Are Soda Machines Bulletproof?

I admire Scott DeShields over at Ken­tucky Bal­lis­tics: You got­ta respect a Suthin guy will­ing to shoot up a Dr Pep­per soda machine. Suthin­ers have a spe­cial rela­tion­ship with Dr Pep­per; shoot­ing through hun­dreds of cans of life-giv­ing ambrosia had to be dif­fi­cult.

But sci­ence does­n’t care about your feel­ings, and it’s crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant to answer the ques­tion:

Could you hide behind a soda machine dur­ing a gun­fight?

And here’s the answer: Depends on which guns the bad guys are shoot­ing.