User blog comment:So-Pro Warrior/Mass Effect vs. Sci-Fi Tournament: Round 2-Battle 1: Commander Shepard vs. Nathan Hale/@comment-4098900-20120730235407/@comment-143604-20120731001457

Kinetic Barriers, Shepard's shileding, is designed to push away and repel projectile moving over a certain speed, including bullets. It's shown to withstand automatic fire numerous times, and recharges while in cover. Your statement on numbers still don't make sense- Hale doesn't have much experience fighting human enemies.