“If plan A is for you to take multiple rounds of .308 in your back...” (2000)
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There are a bunch of people in American gun culture who are obsessed with “preparedness”. Some of these people may have a kernel of reason (maybe they live in a rough neighborhood and have a small sidearm that they hope they never have to use). But any culture like this has its exemplars, people who fixate on preparing for outlandishly rare severe scenarios, but lack the competency to actually do so properly.
Like, if this guy was actually dealing with violence at his workplace regularly or even once a year, he wouldn’t be talking in the future conditional tense (“if there’s an incident cops will let us…”, “I’m worried that someone might try to…”), he’d be talking in the present progressive tense (“when there’s an incident the cops usually tell us we can…”, “When someone tries to shoot me I generally…”).
In all likelihood he’s a mall cop in a town that probably has very little gun crime but had one tragic shooting 10 years ago, and he has become obsessed with being prepared for the next one.
> "I am a Master of three martial arts including ninjitsu, which means I can wear the special boots to climb walls. I don't think any of you are working as hard as I am to be prepared. I asked a serious question about tactical armor and I wanted a serious response. If you want to laugh at somebody, try laughing at the sheep out there who go to the mall unarmed trusting in me to stand guiard over their lives like a God."
It's pretty clearly a troll based on the first post, but the replies guarantee it.
Certainly lying abt the 400 rounds daily, though. No mall would foot that bill, with or without adhesive.
At this point I'm picturing a huge walrus of a guy, hung with armored plating like a pine cone, speeding towards a crime scene at 5 kph on a mobility scooter.
before I realized I was being trolled. shame on me.
This one seems harmless.
The worst IMHO are the men (it's always men) who fake their death for attention, and then create a girlfriend in mourning.
HESCO make some and I’m sure others do as well. But they’re not cheap. The HESCO plates I’m thinking of also claim to stop 30-06 armor piercing! You might survive a hit like that on your plates but the blunt force of the impact would still cause injury.
(I shoot .308, and IIRC there's no measurably significant difference in energy imparted to the target between .308 and 7.62x51 with the same weight pill, although, as is often the case with guns, a slight difference in pressure rating for the brass leads to a bunch of folk theories)
I'm doing reseach for my script for a movie, where an evil European accent takes hostages in a food court to extort Cinnabon Reward Points, the working title is Die Hardee's - Death Comes To Us Mall.
...I apologise for the puns, but it was hard to resist. But yeah, having seen what a .308 does to a deer, I was struggling to imagine how you'd defend against that in a ballistic vest.