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Lightweight body armor is a practical solution for many people, not just hardcore Operators, law enforcement, or SWAT members. There are several options for lightweight body armor that span across several threat levels of protection ranging from IIIA (handgun rated) up to IV (.30-06 armor piercing rated). To clarify, when we say “lightweight”, we are talking about body armor that is under the typical 8lb plate seen with many steel core and ceramic body armor plates. The prac …

Is Your Body Armor Kit Ready For Hot Summer Months? Body Armor for Hot Climates While a full body armor kit can be great idea on paper, hot summer months can quickly change your plans. Having worn a fully outfitted plate carrier with body armor myself in 114 degrees, I can tell you that "essential" gear gets redefined and optimized fairly quick. That said, building your body armor kit and tactical gear setup around your environment/climate should be a major consideration. It doesn’t d …

Kit Setup There's a seemingly unending list of tactical gear with new accessories and doo-dads coming to market all the time. Plate carriers offer a lot of options for customization, it can be easy to fall into the trap of adding too much or unnecessary gear. So, what’s really needed in my tactical setup? This is a question I find is not asked enough. This is also a question I find that people answer in their living room based on theories of combat. The answer in my opinion, is re …

By: Rob Orgel, Emergency Response Tactical The way I see it, there is lots of gear being tossed around, or advertised to look like it will help us in the next zombie apocalypse. So what is underrated gear? It's a good idea to take a step back and see how much overrated gear is saturating our industry. Everyone wants to sell you something and when scrolling through social media, it might seem like a good idea to buy, until you actually apply these items on the ran …

*** UPDATE*** July 12th, 2022 New York has updated their definition of "body armor" makign it impossible to sell to civillians: For the purposes of this section a "body armor" means any product that is a personal protective body covering intended to protect against gunfire, regardless of whether such product is to be worn alone or is sold as a complement to another product or garment. The unlawful wearing of body armor is a class E felony.   With the recent …