I understand people want guns to protect themselves and their family like I do but why would someone be able to buy body armor to be up to no good?

[driven159]

[BCA6010]

Body armor isn't regulated (not exactly quick or easy to get either) mainly because it's not a weapon, but defensive in nature, and there's a huge market for especially discreet soft vests that can be worn under other clothing. Plate carriers can usually be bought off the shelf but without the actual armor inserts (which usually have to be bought online and can take several months to arrive), those are basically just harnesses for holding pouches, and frankly that's what the majority of people actually use them for. Personal and private security also buy them through the exact same channels private citizens can/do.

It's also worth mentioning that improvised or crude body armor inserts could easily be made anyway (some sold on the market are literally just steel plates), so like with many things, regulation hurts the law abiding citizens more than the criminals. Sure they aren't technically protected under the law the same way firearms are, but the arguments against it are also more irrational and don't hold up under scrutiny.

[Wade12345]

you realize you can make your own body armor with steel plates and paper or wood?

[Agape93]

Incase the deer learn how to use a gun.

And yes, I am kidding.

[Astarlessnightsky]

If poeple own guns to shoot people, people will own body armor to protect them from getting shot.
And if people own body armor to be protected, other people will start owning armor piercing bullets or other methods to break body armor.

And than the body armor gets improved... and so on...

[TheMajesticKing777]

Cause armor stops bullets and criminals got guns with bullets, why do you have a fire extinguisher if you don't have a fire? In case you get a fire right, same logic goes here

[driven159]

its ok for police and military but regular people should not be able to get it that should be a fed flag

[TheMajesticKing777]

Them trying to force you to get it should be a red flag, my personal believes speak about the mark of the beast being forced on people and people hunting down christians so when ever that time is I'd rather die

[OldWorldOrder]

Lol

Define "regular person."

[NamerOfStars]

What do you mean, "why would someone be abse to"? You can't kill someone with body armor, and bullets ion't stop bullets. How else can you plotect yourself from people with guns?

[cth96190]

As a former soldier, I believe that anyone who relies upon body armour is a fool.
I do not and did not use it. I prefer greater mobility and less wright to carry.

[driven159]

yes, and be a good shot so you don't need it

[cth96190]

If I hit someone who is wearing body armour, using my preferred weapon the FN FAL L1A1 (7.62 x 51), they will die.
All that energy will be transferred upon impact. Even if the projectile does not penetrate the armour, the blunt force trauma of the energy transfer will kill them.

[Agagagagaga]

Good thing the world isn’t full of people carrying a FN FAL L1A1 (7.62 x 51).

For a former soldier you should know that body armor doesn’t protect you against all small arms fire.

I’ve seen video of soldiers being sniped who then stood up and ran to cover. Unharmed. Body armor works. If it didn’t it wouldn’t be issued to the military.

[cth96190]

@Agag etc.
Body armour is issued because the military industrial complex makes money out of supplying it.
The person whom you saw shot. Do you know what calibre was used?
If it was the 5.56x45 mouse gun that might be survivable. If the calibre had been a man killer, such as 7.62x51 or 7.62x54, not so much.
Body armour has a psychological value for the naive (or unintelligent), but that false confidence ends when they see one of their comrades lifted off his feet by the impact of a 7.62x54.
For a soldier in the field, minimising weight is of great importance.
Add the weight of body armour to the typical infantryman’s load of 40kg plus and it becomes an unwelcome burden.
Also, in some theatres, body armour is too hot to wear in the real world.

[ArtemisSilver]

It's just an extension of being armed.

Material science is advancing quickly. There's no point trying to regulate armor when anyone can make it now.

[Anonymous]

Body armor isn’t a weapon. It’s defense.

[jahaims]

Because freedom