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Gun Control & RKBA

CompanyFirstSergeant

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1. "failed to penetrate his jacket — which was not bullet-proof"

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:29 PM

May 2016

Umm, yeah.....

By definition it was bulletproof.

Just not designed to be.

I hope to set foot in NYPD patrolled territory as little as possible for the rest of my life.

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