Originally Posted by
WilcoRoger
At the terrorist attack in BRU a Rimowa alu bag stopped some shrapnel - not bullet, though. The owner probably is happy he had chosen that luggage ^
The link is in Finnish, but the picture says it all - the shrapnel stopped inside the bag.
http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/a1458710352610
Tightly packed clothing inside a suitcase will do more to stop a bullet or shrapnel than the super thin aluminum on a suitcase. The pictured shrapnel may also not have been traveling terribly fast at the time it hit the suitcase in question.