I had never thought about adding armor to my prepping materials. Its easy to think that carrying a gun around is enough to deter people, but really if shtf then you can't assume you're the only one willing to shoot to provide for your family.
Level IV ceramic plates are right around 6#. Level 3 won't stop M855.
Specifically ceramic lvl 3 plates? Several of the plates in the tests I linked to are Lvl 3, and stop M855.
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