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Re:ThorShield Energy Weapon Protection Fabric by noodlesUK on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:55AM (#20582729)
Two things: I’m sure current body armour is resistant to tasers, as the prongs need to hit you in order to work, and if your armour is stopping a knife or a bullet, two measly little pins aren’t gonna make it.

If you want a cheap and trivially accessible alternative to this, a fencing Lame will fit the bill perfectly. It’s a metal conductor in the shape of a vest or jacket. Whilst I haven’t ever been tazed wearing one, I imagine it would handle it just fine.

Re:ThorShield Energy Weapon Protection Fabric by steve19 on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:14AM (#20582808)
I have fired non-consumer Tasers a number of times (at targets, not a living things). The thin needles of a Taser are more likely to pentrate armor than a lage knife. And a knife is more likely than a bullet. Bulletproof vests are not necessarily knife proof, they capture bullets by binding them and dissipating energy rather than stopping them dead (that is what ballistic plates/inserts are for)

That said needle proof vets are common and used by law enforcement.

Re:ThorShield Energy Weapon Protection Fabric by jamesmus on Thursday August 01, 2019 @09:46AM (#20583628)
I was trying to work out why on earth you would need to wear a metal conductor whilst erecting a fence and then I realized that you mean the sport of fencing. Ha, ha.