/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>32085
Just slap on a hoodie over your beer armour.

buy a pistol
get your CHL
>these chavs don't fuck with you anymore

>>32091
>implying you can get any form of carry license in the UK
>implying Big Brother would let a law abiding citizen carry a gun

>>32085
>2011
>Chainmail
>Illegal
lolwut.jpeg

cut open your coat and fill with several layers of paper
sew shut

>warning: may not work at all

>and since wearing a chainmail is illegal in many places
Wait, really? Why in the hell?

Paper mache + PVA glue to make the plates.

You'd be amazed at how hard that shit really is.

>>32121
in many places in the UK wearing chainmail outside of reenactment or larp is considered as bad as carrying a big knife

>>32132

>>32132
That doesn't mean that it is illegal. I'd like to see a video of someone getting arrested for chain-mail.

Why would you not make chain-mail that is "easily concealable", if you wanted chain-mail in the first place?

also OP
>concealable

>>32132
pluss it messes up your back in the long run.
what you want is something like a plate (or more plates) covering your gut. your ribs usually protect the lungs and heart, but some more re-inforcement there wont hurt.
also put something at your back, specially in the kidney regions

>>32132
In most places in the UK you would be considered a dick.

It's not an offence so it's not illegal.

Granted you might get some shit from the police and by shit i mean stopped and questioned a lot but in fairness you'd deserve it because you're basically saying 'I expect to get stabbed' which isn't something that happens a lot at all no matter what the daily mail wants you to believe.

chainmail... BANNED IN BRITAIN

>in many places in the UK wearing chainmail outside of reenactment or larp is considered as bad as carrying a big knife

please, supply me with actual evidence of this.
as a reenactor for the last decade, and a maker of weapons for reenactment, martial arts and collectors, living in the UK, I have never heard of this "law".

Nor have any of the people I know, including the loony who regularly wore his full viking byrnie underneath a trenchcoat on the way to work, simply so he was accustomed to wearing it regularly...

>>32192
>>32192

Sounds about right for Airstrip One, doesn't it

>>32217
sounds about right for braindead /k/ memes with no bearingon reality, more like.

You should get a water gun that looks like a pistol, then paint it black/silver (/cgl/ has some tutorials if you tell them you're doing a cosplay with a gun) and wave it at skin heads in tracksuits. Maybe act like some nervous fuck with OCD that hasn't been taking his meds.

You could also not live in a shithole, try not to upset hoodies and not go out too late.

sorry to hear about the gun thing OP.
things like this make me love living Texas.

I know a part of the second amendment says there's little to no restrictions on firearms you make yourself. Probably different over there, but its a worth a shot to look it up.

>>32233
Or he could buy an airsoft gun that looks real and remove the orange ring.

Just make your own out of duct tape and metal washers.

One layer works well against slashes, two for stabs.

Offset the second layer 50% so that even if the knife gets into the crease between the first layer then it will be stopped by the second.

>>32224

>butthurt britfag

it's alright, maybe you'll be lucky enough to be a prole

>>32246
i think you should sketch that out for us

>>32266
No, just bored of screaming rednecks shouting away about bullshit they have no actual clue about.

fuck off to /k/ or /pol/, or actually talk about DIY, and stop being a tosser.

>>32270

>implying that I'm a redneck
>implying that guns are illegal in my country for citizens
>implying that governments don't disarm the people when they switch to totalitarianism
>implying that hasn't already happened in your Europoor shithole
>implying you're actually on-topic
>implying you're not asshurt

mythbusters season 9 episode 12 "paper armor"


http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/player/videobb.php?id=9rDsKndSU0KS

Buy a stab vest if you're that paranoid. The whole effort of making composite armour seems a bit much for something that'll probably never happen.

You sound like the kinda person where this won't matter anyway and you'll just get your head kicked in, armour or no armour.

This thread really made me realize one thing:

I love America and our weapon laws.

Wear a leader jacket.
Problem solved.

>>32278
My apologies. let me correct myself.

I'm bored of the fine, upstanding citizens of the world's number one nation, explaining how their god-given second amendment rights makes thier wonderful nation superior to all other nations on the planet.

There, does that massage your fragile little ego better?

-
I dont give a flying fuck what you think about europe.
I dont give one rat's arse about your shitty, gun-obsessed murdrous nation with a per capita murder rate 5 times what my nation has.
I dont give a single toss about the fact you're brainwashed into clutching your guns in "defence" like some paranoid hillbillies, while your fucked-up government splurges the remnants of your wealth on wars you cant afford, and drives you deeper towards economic meltdown.
I dont care in the slightest that you think we're the "police state", while you have the highest per capita rate of pisoners on the planet, vastly higher rates of repeat offenders, murdrous police who shoot first and think last, and a regime of state-endorsed capital punishment, identical to the arab states you so patriotically like to "liberate".
I dont give a single shit about your ideas of "totalitarianism", when your own nation is a jingoistic state of rightwing neo-fascism, and you're too blind to even see how fucked up it is.
I do give a fuck about the fact you're some flag-waving retard shitting up this board instead of contributing anything.

>>32351

I understand how you feel, but why you mad brah?

>>32351
Butthurt much?

>>32368
solely mad because I really dont want to see this board turn into /pol/, /k/ or /new/

I rather like the range of subjects, and its got so much potential I dont want to see it ruined.

blacksmithing, electronics, leatherworking, woodwork, sewing, armour stuff for reenactors, metalwork, all that stuff is brilliant, and more importantly, is utterly non-political. and it does'nt need to have flag-waving idiots of _any_ nationality going "hurr, your country is shitty 'cos you dont have a gun!" or whatever shitting onthe board and wrecking it.
And yes, I probably should'nt have just said what I think of the United States, in hindsight, even though I did sage it. ( did'nt expect the thread to have been bounced to the frontpage as I hit submit), as I'm just as to fault by expressing my opinion about their nation. Please excuse my outburst.

>>32351
yesssss the delicious taste of butthurt

Chainmall Nigga
Do it in sping steel wire (harmonic wire - heat treated C60) it will be uber anti-knive

>>32246
>>32328
>>32125

BUMPING FOR POSITIVE ON TOPIC THREAD PROGRESS!!!

>>32351

>implying Great Britain hasn't contributed to every American conflict in the past twenty years

You're so full of shit that it's coming out of your mouth instead of your anguished anus. Also,

>riots happen in ye old england
>idiots rampage in the streets for weeks, nothing populace can do about it
>riots happen in America
>police put down riots quickly and humanely because the populace is armed, and rioters know people will shoot if they B+E

>mfw a bunch of retards with iphones had your government on its knees for almost a month

Why the hell would chainmail be illegal anywhere? Or even looked down upon?

>>32392
>>32370
>>32368
>>32354
>>32278
>>32266
>>32239
>>32192

While I don't endorse the raging brit-fag, you fuckers are off-topic...

>>32085
In America we just carry guns.

buy a peper spray

Back to the topic at hand, OP is looking for ideas to ward off hoody wearing scum. Making concealed weapons to defend yourself is doable but as for 'armour', I would just buy a knife-proof/flak jacket and wear that. Best to go store bought and professionally tested if you don't know 100% what you're doing especially if you want to trust your life to it.

>>32506
this or a stun gun

This is why whenever I see chavs hanging around at night I will throw a brick at them and leg it. If I hit one then it's one less little bastard harassing grannies outside Curries and PC Plod isn't going to waste the paperwork on the shitstains.

www.safeguardclothing.com

-Cheep stab/bullet proof vests, covert and overt

>>32521

I've always loved that British colloquial. "Leg it" Why don't we use that one America?

I hate living in the UK all our liberties have been taken away from us one day i'll move to a country where a law abiding citizen can buy agun

>>32546
we use hoof it. or beat feet. but i know what you mean.

Hold on just a fucking second. Are people living in the cities of England afraid to walk the streets of the night because of some teenage wiggers? Jesus christ, what a shithole.

>>32085

Only a fucking pussy with get robbed, and only a faggot would wear armor. Man the fuck up dickhead and learn to punch the shit out of the next person who even so dares to look at you.

Wear Armor
Forever Virgin

>>32591
>internet tough guy

>>32567
we also use
punch it
bounce
dip

And so a good chain mail thread devolved into a argument about the legality of wearing the harmless armor in the UK. wtf is google op?

>>32561
and then the chavs buy them

>>lots of people getting mugged by chavs these days
>>and since wearing a chainmail is **ILLEGAL** in many places I was thinking "what about making some composite armour, easily consealable etc"
>>any ideas?

>>32653

Only the bit about firearms was off-topic.
Also the thread was never about chainmail, the thread was about concealable composite armor.

"it's the fuzz! cheese it!"

>>32591
>>>/b/

A week after DIY was introduced to 4Chan - welcome to /b/

>>32686
>>32697

HIVEMIND

>>32703
>15:24
>15:30
>hivemind

>costanza.jpg

>>32085
>mfw they just shoot you in the leg.

>>32750
You'd be more likely to encounter someone with a knife than a gun. You only meet someone with a gun if you mess with some bad motherfuckers.

>>32085
>lots of people getting mugged by chavs these days

Nope, over the last 20 years UK crime has fallen hugely, including muggings, vandalism, burglary, taking unattended property (nigger stole my bike...in the 1980s).....essentially all the crimes chavs are associated with have been falling since before the word chav entered common usage, and haven't generally (taking unattended property is up ~10% this year....the looting in London...but that's still lower than 5 years ago) shown any recent rise.

>and since wearing a chainmail is illegal.

Not in the UK.

pepper spray. proven to be more effective in saving your life from some crackhead nigger than a 9mm.

I remembered reading about a use for Non-newtonian fluids as body armor. You've seen the effect with corn starch and water. It's a liquid when no force is applied, but hardens in response to an applied force. The effect is that the hardening dissipates the force, and typically the higher the force the harder the object becomes up to a certain limit. So I google'd it, any HEEEEY it exists.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/liquid-body-armor1.htm

It's light, easily concealable, and I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to improvise.

>>32514
How do I make my own stun gun out of scratch?

>>32546
Cheese it.

but yea, we need to use leg it more, brits have the right idea here.

>>32828
this is interesting, albeit likely difficult for the home inventor. I can't think of any way one would achieve sustainable resistance from a water/cornstarch mix. Ziplock bags in layers maybe? I dont know. And how effective would it be against a pointed knife blade. I could see more effectiveness against, say, a large projectile, like a rock in a riot maybe.

The issue lies in the retention of moisture throughout the fabric, and/or retention of form throughout the garment.

Nonetheless, cool idea.

>>32328

Wait, so regular folded up paper is an effective armor?

>>33817
Perhaps if you were to use a design similar to this ice pack. Fill up a bunch of small ziploc bags, duct tape them together so they're in strips like the ice pack, and make a vest.

Hilarious to see a picture of armor I made as the opening shot for a 4chan thread.

Plastic CoP is mad easy, yo.

>>32132
Hahaha! And they call Americunts restrictive and old-fashioned!

>>32132
>considered as bad as carrying a big knife

wtf UK? Are nerf guns illegal too?

>>33909
Prisoners use phone books and such as shiv armor. You get a really thick book (thicker than you could wear) and it can stop bullets. Within reason obviously. A friend and I tested this out. My ar15 .223 went through a 3 inch book but it stopped his .357.

It works like bullet proof glass, the force is distributed throughout the layers.

Possibilities:

1. make a samurai armor
2. Make a scale armour
3. Leather is pretty strong, make it extra thick and it could save you from a stab.

>>32524
I know the guy who runs this business, he's a royal knobend I'd not give the time of day to, let alone any custom.

OP, if you want concealable armor, ask around on the Real Life Super Hero boards. They are REALLY into that sort of shit, because they get the crap kicked out of themselves all the damn time. I doubt 4chan will ever be of any direct help.

>>33922

That could always be supplemented with the whole washer thing, creating scale armor with that behind it for extra oomph in defense followed by light padding.

in ancient times they made armour out of like grass or something. i have no idea how effective this was. was thinking of making some but not to actually wear around town but just cause i'm interested in stone age weaponry and tech

hit up this guy for advice
Miguel Caballero

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Caballero_%28company%29

>>32085
been thinking about going vigilante, this might help.

>wearing chain mail is illegal
what the fuck, that's purely defensive!

>>34513

It's been used to strangle in the past, hence why its regulated.

>>34513
-People generally don't wear body armor unless they're expecting to get attacked.
-If you're expecting enough assaults to merit investing in body armor, you're probably at least partially responsible for getting attacked in the first place
-None but the most serious criminals in the U.K. regularly employ firearms; the vast, vast majority of street-level criminals use knives or other bladed weapons
-As do civilians that don't take kindly to assault
-Chainmail is designed to defend against bladed weapons

>>34568
Not trolling, but I'm trying to picture how in the hell to strangle someone with a chainmail shirt. You would LITERALLY have to remove it, get them to put it on, stand behind them, and yank the back of the neckline in order to choke them.

Something seems implausible about that.

Also: Wearing body armour is illegal here too (in Canada, not getting more specific than that). Not sure why... something about gangs wear it, planning to at one point call and ask why since I liked wearing my homemade chainmail shirt out shopping every now and then for shits and giggles. Doesn't make sense to me... we're not allowed to protect ourselves in non-weapon ways? What's next... not allowed to lock our car because only drug dealers do?

>>32132
>completely passive defensive armour is considered as bad as a combat knife

I suspect that you may be telling us falsehoods.

>>32351
Take that shit to /b/, please.

well i could see a chainmail glove being almost (not quite) as bad as brass knuckles

>>34588 here

>>34579
I imagine that's the reason it's banned here too recently. Still doesn't make sense. If every criminal and their dog uses a knife... why again am I not allowed to protect myself? That's like saying nobody is allowed to wear a seatbelt because if you're wearing one you're expecting to get in an accident, and thus will cause more or some bullshit.

In response to your 'if you're wearing it then you're obviously doing something illegal' crap... that sinks of "If you have nothing to hide then you won't mind zero privacy" type laws that are going around lately.

I like wearing chainmail, because it looks awesome, and gets lots of comments and looks. It's butted galvanized steel, 18-gauge rings, not stainless steel split rings... a hard enough stab will just open the ring it's caught in and I'll be stabbed anyway!

>>34600
Except that chainmail distributes the impact over a larger surface area, so it would do less than your bare knuckles hitting.

Also, you'd probably hurt your hand a helluva lot more than the guy, unless you have good padding underneath.

OP just get yourself a trench coat (not telling you to buy one or anything, you can obtain/scavenge/craft or w/e). Trench coat got its name from ww1 and actually designed as a light armor to protect from stab wounds from a flat sharp objects like bayonets. Thus trench knives (looks like an triangular icepick) were invented but then made illegal in the geneva conventions because it wounds bad iirc. And as a bonus, burberry makes these trench coats and wearing one would make you look like a chav which would protect you from
other chavs, provided the cops wont shoot you first.

Cutting boards, I dont know how but cutting boards, the plastic ones.

>>34657
>because it wounds bad

Yeah. The triangular blade made pretty horrific wounds; they were extremely difficult to suture effectively because of the shape, they were much more prone to infection for the aforementioned reason and if the proverbial knife was twisted (or moved at all, really), it turned everything in it's immediate vicinity into a pile of hamburger that would heal at an agonizingly slow pace if it didn't develop a massive lethal infection first.

>>32085
>and since wearing a chainmail is illegal in many places
>chainmail is illegal
Evem fucking ARMOR is banned in Britain?

>>34657
>>34700
No. Just no. Everything you posted is wrong.

Triangular blades were cheap to make and very durable. They are shit knives if your goal is to cause a severe wound. Jagged wounds clot and heal faster.

The Fairbairn-Sykes is the ultimate design in fighting knife. It's excellent for cutting, slashing, and stabbing. The clean slices it makes take much longer to clot and heal.

>>34727
wow, what a sick thought
It's like looking at bullets based on how they'll ricochet inside a skull

>>34657
I read this and didn't know what a trench knife was so I googled it, and this came up
this is the gayest thing I've ever seen in my life

>>34727
>Jagged wounds heal faster
>larger quantities of soft tissue damage heal faster than smaller quantities

What the fuck am I reading?

Keeping a knife sharp and stropped is a standard part of knife safety as a clean, straight cut hurts less and heals faster than a ragged one.

>>34727
I hope you are trolling.

Trench knives (especially as bayonets) only served one purpose: to penetrate trench coats in trench warfare, not because they cared about wound profiles and knife fighting techniques. The ban of trench knives came later because it was very traumatizing for patients and the staff.

>>34727
>doctors use scalpels to make clean slices because it takes longer to clot and heal

I fucking knew it!

...

Actually no, you're an idiot.

>>34765
>ricochet inside a skull
lol u troll me.

Anyway, I do choose my bullets based on how they'll wound someone. I'm not going to shoot a man because it's a fun game, I'm going to be trying to kill him.

>>34783
>It is essential that the blade have a sharp stabbing point and good cutting edges, because an artery torn through (as against a clean cut) tends to contract and stop the bleeding. If a main artery is cleanly severed, the wounded man will quickly lose consciousness and die.
William Fairbairn

>>33945 LOL! friday after next

>>34799

Cept they weren't going for clean, precise cuts back then. They wanted something that would punch through the coats and do the most damage to soft tissue as possible while doing so.

>>34830
I just gave you a quote from the designer of a knife designed solely for hand to hand combat, and used extensively in WW2, on why he designed his knife the way he did. Yet you're still arguing against it.

I guess you're simply a moron.

>>34846
Give me the word of a medical professional and I'll believe you.

You don't need body armour. You need a good and sturdy cane, and some sword training. You alkso need to work on your snooty attitude, and to carry a monocle at all times.

Wound healing is a very complex subject and imo a clean cut and a jagged cut doesn't factor that much. Jagged cuts trigger a faster respond from the clotting factors than a clean cut but cleaner cuts allow wound to approximate (seal) quicker. Anyways there are too many factors in this.

But a wound from a deep penetrating triangular shaped hole is very difficult to suture and approximate. Cutting arteries to send your target quickly to a hypovolemic shock is ideal like you mentioned, but hemorrhaging organs from a deep stab in the torso is worst and unfortunately easier to inflict with a trench knife. There is a alot of space in the torso cavity to bleed and its more fatal too since it is harder to assess and to treat especially in the field.

>>34857

...MORIARTY, YOU SONOFABITCH IS THAT YOU?

for the longest time i thought i was on /k/

i guess what they say is true... a true /k/ommando... /diys/hard

>>32488
Yeah! Just like the LA riots! Wait, nope, you just let your niggers go wild for six days letting dozens of people get killed and left your native Korean population to pick up the slack from the police.

>>34871
Koreans, you say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L5ttIHV12s

>>32665
Except most chavs have criminal records even if they never served time so wouldn't be allowed a gun.

>>34877
> implying they buy them legally

>>32665
>>34877
>implying they wouldn't buy them illegally anyway
>implying they don't buy them illegally already
>implying criminals obey the law

I was thinking sections of galvanized square wire mesh in a coat. Two layers of the small square kind overlapped might be stab resistant.

>>34901
>implying chavs own guns

Yeah I don't think yo need to worry about a chav shooting you.

Stabbing you yes.

>>32085
how the hell is chainmail illegal? why?! what kind of shit logic is that

get an illegal gun and shoot these fuckers in the dark from a bush. be sure to keep your lights on at home, and maybe the TV running.

Sand the profile offf your shoes, get gloves, clothes you can dispose of immediately, and douse the bodies in lighter fluid, and burn to make sure you don't leave traces.

Chav issue solved

>>34958

This guy is a GENIUS.

>>34949
It's illegal for OP because he lets his LARP sessions go too far and has been cautioned by the police to not brandish his styrofoam weapon against people who don't pick up after their dogs.

Bulletex. Comes in huge sheets, or however big you want it. Multiple layers of fiber meshing layed over each other suspended in resin and then hardened under compression. Can use it to bulletproof your whole house if you really want to.

Sidenote: It is more likely your going to get stabbed with an awl, screwdriver, or icepick like device than a knife. Those are mildly more explainable than hauling around a knife with you if your a mugger or whatnot. Or maybe you frequent an area with alot of ninjas. I don't know the circumstances.

>>34958
Where there's smoke there's fire. That fire will attract a lot of rapists.

>>34964
good thing he didn't throw magic packets at them, that would've been assault

>>32085
http://romanarmy.net/pdf/seg_instr.pdf
Wear a full roman centurion costum with a staff instead of a pilum, and a 2 foot dildo instead of a gladius. Nobody will ever fuck with you.

>>34958
That's illegal isn't it?

If OP isn't willing to get chainmail, would he really be willing to do this?

Around here, the muggers carry screwdrivers or if they have a prior conviction, they just use a burst of hyperviolence (punch head, stomp head several times). After you are hurt a lot, you cannot see and identify them. At that point is when they rob you. So far, 100% of all the muggings in this predominantly white area are by blacks. They bus over which is why the bus terminal park and ride has the most muggings.

They don't cut you unless you resist or don't have enough loot to make it worth their while. They get super angry if you resist and that gets you hurt (usually broken bones). Usually they hit you until you fall down, then stomp your head and kick you so that you are too hurt to identify them. So far, most of the cases where violence occurred usually has broken bones, lots of bone bruises, kicked groins and belly, and they almost always stomp your head. About half the time they break your jaw because they really do jump up and land on your head with their feet. And yes, they do this in front of witnesses. Times are tough and life isn't fair.

>>32085
Thread is old and tl~dr, but chainmail is shit against a dagger.

Spend the money on a good pair of shoes and learn to run faster than the other guy. Save you time, your health, and your life.

You fuckin niggers are dumb
If your willing to build armor to wear out in public for protection
chances are when the time comes to use it, it will only slow you down cause your ass will be trying to run away.
Why not just get some pepperspray or a taser

>>32524
>www.safeguardclothing.com

It doesn't work in the USA because the black muggers typically hit you in the head until you fall down and then kick you a lot and/or stomp your head. They do that BEFORE they take your valuables because too many people have martial arts or other self-defense training. So they hit hard, fast, and make sure you are too hurt to skill them before they take your stuff. It's ironic that self-defense courses have resulted in much more harm to victims than before since the muggers now assume all targets have self-defense training, so they have to take the target out before looting. That often means stomping the head, elbows, and knees.

As for wearing chainmail, that makes me too slow. Several times, I've had to run away from the ATM because there was someone running at me from a distance away. If I ran slower, they could catch up and make me go to the ATM to give them my cash.

I need to keep complaining to the bank to make the cancel entire transaction button respond faster and spit my card out right away instead of waiting and waiting and waiting damn it.

If you attempt to use self-defense training on /Vigs here, they get so mad they will break your ribs. Someone got a fractured jaw, fractured arm, busted elbow joint, busted knees (both stomped broken), and various other injuries. No more news if he is crippled or not but he fought and lost. Oh, his hands were stomped too, so he had broken fingers and hands. If you fight, you better win.

>>34568
then everything should be illegal

i can kill with clothes, with pencils and pens, with rocks, with lumber, with baseball bats, with cricket bats, etc, etc, etc, etc,etc

>>35244
best laugh all night. thanks

>>34588
Is the secret policy behind these anti-body armor laws to make it easier for gang members to kill each other?

>>35244
jesus christ dude i feel sorry for you, i live in the south and ive never been mugged or even looked at as a mug victim, why do you go to the ATM at night?

also OP, i dont know what you can do about whatever Chavs are, i guess travel in groups? i mean you DO have friends right?

Wearing chain mail? That's almost as bad as keeping your eyes without a license!

Damn, England, I was about to look up other suggestions to defend yourself, but apparently impact batons, pepper spray, and tasers are all illegal too. Impact batons can get you 10 years in prison! Fuck, maybe just carry wasp spray everywhere with you? That shit can burn your eyes, and it shoots like 20 feet.

>>35285
Try creaming your enemies with bengay.

>>35285
easy fix: get a bigger knife then they have

>>35285
No. Always carry a good cane, or an unbreakable umbrella.

here ya go OP
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/katchu/katchu.html

>>35251
even a normal shirt can be used to strangle. I guess OP will have to walk naked when they make clothes illegal!

Also, get one walking stick!
http://www.irishwalkingsticks.com/irishwalkingstick.html

I don't think the OP's british armour would work against the muggers in the USA. When they strike, it is with a strong stab and not some prissy one that bounces off your plastic slats. If the stab doesn't penetrate, the force is going to cause ithe blade to skitter up to the seam between the plastic slats and the blade or screwdriver will slide between the slats because plastic is flexible.

If you are defending against a stab from a 12 year old, okay. But a stab from a black dude here is going to be fast and hard.

>>35695
Still better than nothing.

>>35313
But that will only make it easier to choke strangers with my dick.

>>36166
And then the movie Surrogate became real life.

>>34901
>>34897
>implying that was my point. at all.

>wearing chainmail is illegal?

Where is this that you're living, OP? And why...

>>36228
Seriously, OP.

As a non-felon in the USA I'm pretty sure I could walk around wearing a Kevlar vest all day and be perfectly within my rights. What shit country doesn't allow you to protect yourself?

What? Why is mail illegal? Is that some archaic law that hasn't really been enforced since Medieval times?

england fag/re-enactor fag here

it's not illegal to wear chainmail, its just stupid.

OP, your best bet is to install somesort of mass hysteria, which, over time leads to a glorious uprising involving death camps and nigger/wiggers. after all, they're not people, and our nation's homeless needs feeding.

Chainmail will get you crazy looks in an airport. You can wear it unless you are a lord (Lords are forbidden from entering the House of Commons in a full suit of armour)

Boiled leather was actually used as armor from antiquity right up first world war when the German picklehaube was replaced by Stalhelm. It can be molded into complex shapes.
However, I'm not sure well made fiberglass wouldn't work as well, if not better.

OK. PUTTING THIS MYTH TO BED.

British cop here.

Wearing chainmail is not illegal in any way. End of story.

inb4 pretending to be a cop
>pic related

>>36283
>being a cop on 4­chan

Eventually someone is going to find CP on your computer