As I live in Orlando and am a very strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment, I've spent way too much time and burned out too many friendships this last week to diatribe about gun rights and definitions. So I'm going to talk about vests and pouches.
As a few people in Iris's cam room know this past January I got into Airsoft. Because of that I've been spending a lot of time in the Army Surplus stores and on Amazon.
Depending on whether you want used or not, the most basic tactical vest, the Fighting Load Carrier, can be had for $25. A magazine pouch for two magazines is like $8. A pouch for three is $12-15. The triple pouch can be stacked on top of each other, 3-6-9, etc. and you can do that on both sides of that vest. For standard 30 round magazines that's, 90-180-270 rounds.
If you want body armor? Real body armor, my local Army/Navy will sell you a used one for starting at $400, perfectly legal, no background checks required, it's just kevlar, ceramics, or steel plates. And weighs about thirty pounds.
I do think some things can be done to aleve fears and address concerns. Registration of guns is a non-starter, banning semi-autos is a non-starter. Radically improving the background check system from the antiquated 1990's tech it currently runs on would be a major improvement. If you want everyone to do background checks, you're going to have to make the system portable, I should be able to run a check wherever I am 24/7 best effort. It should be low cost, I shouldn't have to go to a gun store and pay a dealer $100 for the privilege of doing all the hard work for him. It should be tied into every states' mental health, corrections, convictions, domestic abuse, and drug abuse databases: every database currently used to limit or deny a gun purchase should automatically update the master roll. It should be computerized/app enabled, I should be able to use my laptop or cell phone, like square or paypal. It should give you one of three responses, "Yes", "No", or "Hold". "No" and "Hold" should give you an error code and contact number for clarification of what the error is based on.
And most of all, it should be a background check, not a registration, just because I had a check done doesn't mean a sale happened. If you want to make sure people are legally allowed to purchase a gun, make the system that. A registration is b.s. and has always led to crack downs, confiscations, and calls for more gun control. FFS several years ago the registration list for all CCW holders in a northern state were maliciously released by a newspaper to embarrass the gun owners and frighten their neighbors. The Connecticut assault weapons database is a joke, so many guns turned up "missing" or "lost on a fishing trip"
