From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:42dedd32$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Its .30-06 military round would go through armor that would stop a .308
> > NATO,
> as well.  Which brings up my question: what body armor will stop an AK at
> point-blank?
>
> o the shit they hand out to the troops?
> o anything a smart momma could buy?
>
>

Looks like a smart momma has to buy it ( at least in 2003 )
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-12-17-turley_x.htm
His Army Reserve unit had been called up, so he had taken a leave from
school to serve. What came as a greater surprise was that Richard's mother
had mailed him body armor because his entire unit was issued Vietnam-era
flak jackets that are designed to stop shrapnel rather than bullets. The
Interceptor vest can stop AK-47 rounds moving 2,750 feet a second. Army
Spc. John Fox must appreciate the difference. He was hit in the stomach by
an AK-47 while on patrol in September in Fallujah. He was one of the lucky
soldiers with a vest. The bullets set off three ammunition magazines and a
smoke grenade he was carrying, The Washington Post reported. The vest
protected him from the AK-47 rounds and the explosion of his own ammunition
and grenade.

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