5 Reasons You Should Want Body Armor

By Bob Owens | 6:07 PM | April 20, 2016

Like Colion, I’m a strong believer in having body soft and hard body armor available so that your Worst Day Ever might not become your Last Day Ever. It’s great that you get your shot downrange and on target quickly, but who is to say that the bad guy isn’t going to be just as skilled as you are, has the drop on you, or simply got off a lucky shot right to the center of your chest?

Like flood insurance or fire extinguishers, body armor is something that you hope you’ll never have to use, but if you need it, there is no substitute.

We’re fans of AR500 Armor and the more covert Malibu Camo armor panel that you can all but hide in plain site.

Think seriously about adding armor to your home defense plans.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.