At least one Tesla Cybertruck has endured some Al Capone-style bulletproof testing, CEO Elon Musk claimed last week on X, after a video emerged where the truck looked like it had been pelted with bullets from a 1920s submachine gun. But take the Tesla head honcho’s hyperbolic Twitter rants with a grain of salt; the Tommy Gun isn’t cut out for the job but plenty of modern weapons might be, a firearms expert told InsideEVs.
