>>63993764
>One thing I've been curious to test but too busy to follow up on is see if AR500 is even the best steel for defeating bullets.
Out of the armor steels I always figured it was Mars / Armox, then MIL-46100, then the garage steels with AR500 being the worst but progressively harder options being more brittle and compromising on multi-hit. Tactical scorpion has AR700, which peculiarly only seems to exist in shield form. Highcom being Highcom has an "AR1000" which is really just MIL-46100 or similar, quite close to AR500.

>>63935933
THAT'S RIGHT BROTHER. WHY STOP THERE? SHIELD IT UP.

>>63879666
Satan here is correct. It is exceedingly likely you wear SAPI M or 10x12.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. The language in New York's armor ban suggests that non-wearable armor like shields are fine. You could have a friend buy you plates in another state for the purposes of jury-rigged mounting to a shield. It's a perfectly valid way to up protection against heavier threats. Lots of people buy plates to put on shields. Definitely. Yeah.