What's the best stab-proof vest I can get for a reasonable price? Pic rel is $500 AUD on Amazon.
Must ship to international and bonus points if it is bullet-resistant too.
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What's the best stab-proof vest I can get for a reasonable price? Pic rel is $500 AUD on Amazon.
Must ship to international and bonus points if it is bullet-resistant too.
>AUD
Bodyarmour is illegal in Australia
The gov wants you to be easy to kill
What about plate and mail for medieval reenactment?
I think aussies ban body armor
And that means all body armor
They don't specify that it is ballistic armor that is banned
I might be wrong
That Shadiversity has a bunch of medieval style armor. I'd assume you can pick up some chainmail at the next renaissance faire without any legal issues. Chainmail isn't very comfortable to wear, although it would be kind of cool to sew some thin and light mail into the linings of something like a light bomber jacket so it's covered over, and could be worn in toasty weather without too much issue.
Just DIY, man.
Doesn't Australia have a lot of nasty sharks? I'd assume chainmail would be legal simply because its useful in meat processing and also dive suits for handling sharks in.
Search for Steel mesh apron or steel mesh bib or butcher's supply cut resistant and you will find plenty of less expensive options.
You can not have ballistic armor without a firearms license but the application process is straightforward and unless your last name is Kelly or Tarrant you will likely be approved
That shit is for stopping you from slashing yourself with a butcher's knife. Who knows if it will stop a piercing thrust.
>Who knows if it will stop a piercing thrust.
I'm not the guy you're replying to, but I have a chainmail butcher's glove and there is no doubt in my mind it would stop a piercing thrust from a spear. The rings are individually welded together, it's very strong. If you wanted hard numbers you could always buy a small piece and test it yourself.
Test it. My stab proof armor just has a laminate material over the bulletproof kevlar. They use laminate and chain mail, but I thought the next vest I get I'm just going to actually test various laminate materials by stabbing them and then cut ti shape whatever works best.
If you're not gonna test some Chinese shit from scamazon you're basically asking to not really be protected.
What armor do you have?
I could not live in a country that does not allow me to have body armor. I’d rather move to Africa and be a white warlord.
buy cheap cast iron cookware from aldi or spotlight when they have deals ($10-$15 a pan), go full ned kelly, buy 3XL target business shirts to wear over the top
Your only option is to go full Ned Kelly.
Stop being melodramatic. The gov just doesnt want criminals in body armor
Plenty of criminals in Australia can own body armor.
Just being part of the government doesn't mean you're not a criminal.
"Ok"
Post your gun with timestamp right now homosexual.
>Stop being melodramatic. The gov just doesnt want criminals in body armor
Australian government treats its people like shit and is famous world wide for it. Prison guards became a monarchy worshiping police state
The problem as I see it is that it is not legal to own a stab-proof vest in NSW.
Https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/online_services/firearms/permits/prohibited_weapon_permits/body_armour_vest
I honestly don't see how being stab resistant is something that a law abiding citizen shouldn't be allowed to do. It's not like a stab vest can stop bullets or pepper spray. A criminal in a stab vest is no more a threat to police than anyone else.
>I honestly don't see how being stab resistant is something that a law abiding citizen shouldn't be allowed to do.
Think harder.
Think real hard.
I did and drew a blank. Law enforcement doesn't use knives to stop criminals. There's no reason to stop citizens from protecting themselves against knife attacks.
Anon, if you needed to take certain medicine to survive, and someone took it right out of your hands and held it out of your reach while watching you struggle, you would say that person wants you to.... what?
>if you needed to take certain medicine to survive
you don't need a stab-resistant vest to survive, knife attacks are hilariously rare even in the most infested of europoor countries.
Some literal schizo just stabbed 6 people to death in Australia.
yeah im well aware, thats why this thread exists. people get shot every day in america yet the idea of wearing a 3a vest every day is scoffed at by most gun enthusiasts.
Well that lazy eye Mossood guy on youtube said soft body armor is pretty alright in the winter months. Keeps you warm and protects at the same time. 3a armor is overkill, besides. How many people are realistically going to shoot you with a 44 magnum? Level II is enough.
>Well that lazy eye Mossood guy on youtube said soft body armor is pretty alright in the winter months
the problem with soft armor is that it doesn't breathe so its really gonna suck no matter what.
Clearly, you've never gone skiing.
the biggest non sequitur of the day
The problem with you is that you've just never been in a cold and windy environment. Sometimes you want a wind breaker.
anon i live in ohio im well aware of what cold is. my points is that you wouldn't want to wear a windbreaker as a base layer.
Well then don't wear body armor as a first layer, Einstein. Wear a t-shirt first, put the armor on top and layer over that as necessary.
I remember troops putting on their flak jackets in the winter for extra heat, even when they weren't required to wear it.
Reminder "III+" is not an official NIJ rating, and thus no one is liable when it fails to perform above level III.
Reminder also that many level III plates will fail if struck with a 5.56 FMJ moving at over 3000FPS, which is completely doable with longer barrels.
>you don't need a stab-resistant vest to survive
Congratulations you've failed the "What if you didn't eat breakfast today" test.
Think harder Black person.
If someone doesn't want you to have a piece of protective equipment, they want whatever that equipment protects you from to be harder to protect yourself against.
i.e., they either want you to be stabbed more, or be less able to defend yourself from being stabbed so as to be more dependent or otherwise shift your behavior.
"You want me harmed or threatened" should have been your first thought when you heard the phrase "this protection is not allowed".
Can we assume that you are against smoke alarms, trauma kits, fire extinguishers, locked doors and condoms as well?
To suffer? The frick are you getting at, c**t?
probably because they dont differentiate between bulletproof and stab proof.
>The gov just doesnt want criminals in body armor
And how does the law stop this?
Mate you never had a knife inspection? A cop gives you the old one two stab in the side to check for armor. No armor and it's all good, go on have your dimmies. But if the knife doesn't stab you? Well hold on there buster, you got some explainin to do. Sometimes they yell out "Gimme yer wallet okay ya c**t mate!" to blend in so you don't always see them in advance and hide your body armor.
https://www.kultofathena.com/product-category/armor/mail-armor/hauberks-haubergeons/
Dont get a butted one lol
>$100
>made in india
shiggy
Knife proof maile isnt exactly a high bar to pass. Anything riveted will be fine.
Ballin on a budget, I tested using a couple polymer cutting boards and they seemed to stop M7 bayonets at full charge thrust pretty decently. Mileage may vary, but an option.
OP here. I don’t care about legality right now, I’m just looking for a highly effective, covert stab-proof vest (and ballistic-resistant, ideally)
I’ll tackle the legal bridge when I come to it.
Okay. Go to a costume store and buy some plastic roman armor plates. They'll stop most casual stabs. Not sure about deathgrip hard stabs, but at the very least the knife will get stuck on the first thrust.
Here were the krink parts I was talking about yesterday. Laid everything out today to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. I have some front latch parts somewhere.
Behold the average "krink" owner. A mangle of torch cut garbage that will never be assembled.
amazon doesn't sell body armor or weapons or anything like that so you're looking at a chinese scam probably lol
Maybe not in your country, but they'll send battle axes and stab vests to my house.
what country
'murrica of course
That is the most well priced knife I've ever seen. Those '42986592 steel' knives that cost $600 are so moronic.
Plate cuirass
Can you buy police style vests?
In the UK you can buy the combination stab resistant and NIJ3A for about £50 as police surplus or about £300 if brand new.
No mention of NIJ certification for any UK listings.
Look, dickhead, there's a million DIY body armor videos on youtube. The most premade one I recall was a training weight vest. You can buy pic related IN AUSTRALIA for $250. It's called the rogue plate carrier and the heavy steel it uses can stop 9mm no problem.
>TV Film Theatre
It's a costume
If they're sold with the filler still in then they contain armor, lots of sellers add buzzwords like fancy dress/costume to basically all milsurp items.
If you can't find a liner with armor listed just buy an empty liner and buy whatever soft armor you want separately, only thing to check is if the liner is a one or two piece set, most cop vests have two soft panels while the army flak vests generally are one piece of ballistic nylon or Kevlar cut to fit a specific vest shape.
Welded
https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ew0Bv9l
could everyone ITT please post their EDC vests? i assume you all own them
I made mine out of old butcher's aprons. The rings are welded and I couldnt stab through them with a kitchen knife.
>mithreel
Brisbane, eh?