For what do you want? 9mm? 45? 556?
The price goes up, the quality goes up, the ease of wearing goes down, the weight goes up.
I'm worried about rifle rounds the most, so 556.
I've recently acquired AR-500 3+ plates for my carrier. I've seen torture tests of them and they hold up very well to 5.56 green tip ammo. Not that green tip is armor piercing, but they'll bite armor harder than non steel core ammunition. They're reasonably priced, but be prepared to wait a month to receive them. Both plates worn are ~20lbs, but I'd bet my life on them if I had to.
Did you buy AR-500 steel or ceramic plates?
If steel you wasted your money. If you get hit you'll still become a casualty from the spall. The "truck bed liner" they spray on doesn't help you. Buy ceramic, and either sell the steel to some antifa faggot or use the steel plates only for weight training.
Green Tip was made to get through helmets and minor barriers. Steel armor WILL stop it. Green tip rounds are 62gr.
The magic recipie for getting through steel is 3250+ fps. Which you can get from 55gr 5.56 shot through a 20" barrel. 14.5, 16 and 18 barrels don't give you complete burn of the powder required to get that freedom seed up to 3300fps.
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