Police Riot gear

[Steve]

(30 August 2013, 19:51)Jonas Wrote:

(30 August 2013, 08:49)bigpaul Wrote: i'm a bit concerned that anyone clumping around in this gear, especially post shtf, will become an obvious target?

LOL!

Be honest, BP, you're not one bit concerned about anyone clumping around in that gear, but you're trying to be polite!

Here, wearing that stuff after the SHTF would be like wearing a big "shoot me" sign, front and back in fluorescent red! While it may (?) stop 9mm, any .30 cal hunting round will go through that gear like a hot knife through a stick of butter! In fact a 7.62 X 25 round from an old Russian Tokerev pistol with a muzzle velocity of 1650 fps will too. It would also be a bit warm to wear in the summertime here in Texas with a temperature of 100+F or so, unless you want to open up the guy's protective gear and find him roasted medium rare after two hours or so!

Not many people have 30 cal rifles here, and nobody has a tokerev.

Birdshot is quite easy to stop, a thin layer of plastic will do it as proven by my pigeon decoys which have been hit many times. More likely you will be attacked by someone with a stick / baton / rubber bullet of some sort, in which case a bit of armour will be useful.