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Originally Posted by seycyrus
Walking the exhibit floor of the AUSA for the past few years did not provide any sort of evidence to support this contention. Not to mention, a modicum of applied experience.
Where are you getting this information from?
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Unscientific anecdotal sales figures that indicate that civilian 'adventurers' or those who like to prepare for potential adventure situations, regardless of plausibility, are buying rifle resistant steel plates + spalling protection + plate carriers when they would previously not have been able to afford (or at least not wanted to devote the budget to) any rifle resistant body armor at all.
The field of personal body armor is growing by leaps and bounds and part of that growth is rifle resistant armor becoming much more affordable. Well-funded militaries and law enforcement agencies from the richest countries on Earth still use lighter and more expensive materials like ceramic composites or advanced polyethylene, but steel rifle plates are cheap and widely available enough so that many potential threats in realistic TL8 action-adventure campaigns set in the 2010s might use them.