Back in the 1970’s as I recall a couple of guys wanted to demonstrate the flak jacket to Houston Oiler quarterback Dan Pastorini....similar demonstration...I think they used a baseball bat (one wore while the other one swung)...Dan just watched.
They made the sale though.
Forrest Gump’s mom was right.
I think I would have bought myself a dummy, before I tried to be the dummy.
ALWAYS ASSUME THE GUN IS LOADED!!!
It might take guts, but it doesn’t take a lot of brains.
Saw a vid of a newsperson in Atlanta taking a shot from a 22 with a vest. It stopped the bullet and he cursed on air. The cops doing the demo had a good laugh
His shirt said “Vikings son”. Must have been one of them Berzerkers.
I think Chuck Taylor tried a similar “real world test” of body armour when he was the editor of S.W.A.T. magazine in the late eighties.
Then there was that guy from “Second-Chance” body armor back in the 80’s that would go around to law enforcement agencies, stuff a few newspapers and/or magazines under the vest he was wearing, ask for one of the agency’s duty guns and then shoot himself in the vest to demo the product to the cops. I want to say he was listed in Guiness as the man with the most gunshots or something like that.