A few people noted that New York state Dims’ Senate Bill S9407B had a small problem. I was patiently waiting to see if they would address it with an amendment after it was publicly pointed out.

S9407B is a ban on the sale or possession of a “BODY VEST, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 270.20.” The problem with the bill is that none of the sponsors appeared to have read 270.20.

For the purposes of this section a “body vest” means a bullet-resistant soft body armor providing, as a minimum standard, the level of protection known as threat level I which shall mean at least seven layers of bullet-resistant material providing protection from three shots of one hundred fifty-eight grain lead ammunition fired from a .38 calibre handgun at a velocity of eight hundred fifty feet per second.

No, the Dimwits never amended to correct what seems like a bit of a shortfall, if keeping their citizens sufficiently vulnerable to gunfire was their purpose, as it certainly appears. Soft body armor that will stop a rather old-fashioned .338 caliber, 158 grain, lead slug is out. The governor has signed the bill into law.

Hard ceramic, steel, composite, or UHWM polyethylene plates that will stop higher- power rifles rounds (as well as the lesser .38s)  are still fine. New Yorkers can breathe a sigh of relief, since the basic stupidity of their elected wannabe-masters worked in the people’s favor for once.