ShotStop, the Ohio-based manufacturer of Duritium based body armor, is running a de facto “winter special” through the month of February on their lightweight body armor plates and protective inserts for “armored backpacks”.
Perhaps more importantly than that, they have armor in stock.
ShotStop posted this on social media recently:
“We are hearing many armor companies have diminishing stock and slow delivery times. Not ShotStop! We are ready to take your order whether you are an agency or civilian looking for the lightest most durable ballistic technology out there.”
The special runs through the end of the month. Here’s the rundown.
- Use coupon code protect2021 for15% off
- Offer is valid through February 28, 2021
- Applies to any order of armor plates and BallisticBoard inserts
- Limit One Usage Per Customer
* While supplies last
You can take advantage of that special on their website, www.shotstop.net, or listen to an extensive interview about their ballistic plates and manufacturing ethos in a ShotStop interview at Gunmagwarehouse’s blog The Mag Life.
What is Duritium? Josh Brooks explains on Full30:
Duritium is a proprietary technology owned by ShotStop. It is a next-gen polyethylene compound with an extremely high tensile strength. This tensile strength is extremely good at kinetic energy disbursement. The primary result of this high tensile strength? It’s very good at stopping rounds.
Okay, but a ton of newspaper can stop a round. Why is Duritium better than ceramic competitors?
Ceramic compounds have been battle tested, and battle proven [sic]. This is a fact that no one can deny. Anyone who has spent a fair amount of time on the ground in places like Iraq or Afghanistan inevitably knows someone who was saved by their ceramic SAPI plates. With that said however, ceramic compounds have a few major flaws. They’re extremely brittle, and they have a very short shelf-life meaning they need replacement often. It wasn’t uncommon in Iraq or Afghanistan for a fellow Marine to need replacement plates. All it took was one fall off of the roof of an MRAP onto some hard ground to completely shatter the brittle ceramic plates inside of a vest.
Want to know more? Here’s Tim Kennedy talking about their plates.
Some more info from the company:
That website again is www.shotstop.net.