If high school proms are any guide, males are generally immune to clothing envy. I know I’m making gender-based generalizations here, but nobody ever saw two jocks throwing down in front of the punch bowl while yelling “I picked that tux first, you b*tch!” Having said that, I will now confess to some clothing envy myself because a Toronto custom tailor can build you a carbon nanotube business suit with Level III-A protection that’s almost indistinguishable from a typical wool suit . . .
Oil executives wear them in the Middle East, our Presidents are rumored to wear them on Inauguration Day, and you can have one too if you’ve got $20,000 and a lot of patience. (If only Ambassador Christopher Stevens had had one in Benghazi…) Each Garrison Bespoke bulletproof suit is handmade of a proprietary armor-grade carbon nanotube fabric (similar to Rynohide) and offers approximately Level III-A protection against pistol calibers and fragmentation.
The next-generation fibers give these suits approximately one-half the weight of a similar suit with a level of protection from Kevlar or Spectra.
Carbon nanotubes are believed to be The Next Big Thing in armor development, with significantly higher hardness and blunt-trauma resistance than Kevlar or Spectra fibers and with vastly higher shatter resistance than ceramics. Other carbon-nanotube soft body armor in development has demonstrated the ability to completely block (and bounce away) all common pistol calibers from all ranges and at all angles of incidence.
You don’t need to spend $20K to be a bulletproof fashion plate, but other boardroom-friendly body armor is much bulkier and heavier. This Level III-A sportcoat is made of current Kevlar or Spectra fibers, for instance. It costs ‘only’ $800 and up, but it weighs nearly seven pounds just for the jacket. It might not be immediately noticeable at a distance, but it’s definitely hot and heavy. And not in a good way.
OTOH, you won’t have to wait months or years to have it delivered…
Full on. Pretty sure i have a sickness
I need a place for my tactical treats, in case I get hungry slaying baddies…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q362H-xg0ZA
Because it swept the House so thoroughly, a fact that really doesn’t surprise me at all (and shouldn’t surprise anybody else for that matter), there probably wasn’t any stopping it anyway.
Still, it would have been nice to hear from them, for whatever it would have been worth. Oh well.
The NRA tends to be quite choosey about it’s fights, despite the alleged clout it wields. It has played a very careful PR campaign for a very long time, and the FUD is still strong with them. They’re playing it safe with this one, and probably gearing up for a fight with the Senate over any added language. It’s still the primary reason why I refuse to become a member, though. The NAGR, GOA, and GRNC are my go-to advocacy groups.
When I was a kid, I had a compass inlaid in the stock of my Daisy Buck Jones carbine. Does that count?
What about just a pair of boxer shorts? You know, just enough to protect the really important vitals.
This suit would have done Ambassador Stevens no good whatsoever. He died of smoke inhalation. In the bullet proof safe room at the consulate.
TTAG, please post updates to this story if any come out. I’m dreadfully curious to see how this fustercluck turns out.
Don’t hire pansies from NYC who have no experience with firearms… They will shoot into crowds and lie about a threat later.
Its not politically correct, but the actual term is “Gear-Queer” not the more friendly “geardo” which I have never heard before. Gear-Queers show up in theater with what looks like a blackhawk catalog attached to their rig. Unbeknownst to them, it is 120F everyday and they are going to be conducting two 15 click foot patrols daily for the foreseeable future. It doesn’t take long to figure out that all you really need is a radio, ammo and a shit ton of H20 on your back. Everything else is superfluous and will get you heat stroked and put your team in danger while they decide whether or not to medevac you out or leave you behind for being stupid.
No offense intended for the use of the word “queer.” It only refers to someone who is “odd, or deviating from the norm, eccentric, etc.”
No, I don’t do the tacticool thing. I stuff my extra mags in my pockets.
My most tacticool piece of kit is my sling on my AR which is convertible from two to single point. Usually I just buy leather combloc slings but I sprung for something nice for the AR.
I buy good guns, the best optics you can because a cheap optic is just a PITA, and than shoot the heck out of them. Getting it dirty doesn’t bother me either, that’s why you buy good stuff.
I also have special terms for special people. For example, anyone who worries about what other people do with their own money is called an “A$$HOLE.”
Nothing wrong with being a geardo IMO, what is bad is if one thinks that they are somehow a real deal soldier just through buying a bunch of gear. But I mean how is buying lots of gear one doesn’t need any different than buying lots of guns one doesn’t need, or buying multiple cars one doesn’t need? (if I was rich, you can bet I’d have multiple exotic sports cars and other vehicles, for example).
I enjoy taking carbine courses because I can shoot in ways not allowed on my public range- I am a vet and have had all the cool stuff my rich uncle could give me including a company of M1 tanks, six 120 mm mortars, and a radio that can call in all kinds of nasty death from things that fly- so gear does not impress me.
I show up with a good belt and holster for my pistol and two mag holders- one for my pistol mag one for my carbine mag. I wear running shoes, jeans or shorts (I do admit that the 5.11 shorts are the best I have ever owned and just picked up 3 more pair) and always a t-shirt from the local bakery my buddy owns with his logo “Cupcakes Fix Everything” on the back. I get all kinds of odd looks from the mall ninjas and storm troopers with their moral patches and multi-cam outfits and plate carriers (w/o plates). I love watching their faces as they get out shot by an OFWG rocking a cupcake t-shirt and running a “hobby grade” bushmaster or DPMS AR and a stock Glock 17 gen 2.
…but he was open carrying while wearing a bullet proof suit.
OK, first I can’t drink anything while reading TTAG, because someone (not mentioning any names, but his initials are Ralph), will make a comment and whatever I’m drinking will spew out my mouth or out my nose.
Now I can’t eat while reading posts?
If he’s already had three heart attacks, I say LIVE IT UP NOW!!!!!!!
What’s the over/under on how long it takes him to get kicked out of school for drawing guns?
Will this armor also stop knives. Kevlar does not and that is what police are looking for in armor, bullet and knife proof.