If used in the commission of a crime it is illegal. If the repo guy id'd himself as a police officer then that would be a crime.....if he was wearing the body armor then it was worn during the commission of a crime.
Of course I am only speculating. We're not getting all the facts from the media on this (SHOCK!).
Like I wrote, in a state that will force you, ticket you, fine you for not wearing your safety belt, or flotation gear, or have all your safety crap working on your car, if you are in a job, having taxes extracted from you, by gun point, and don’t like the idea of being shot..so you wear a vest...that’s illegal.
Which of course is stupid.
Now we have a guy, vest aside, who is lawfully repo-ing property( an importing thing in a semi free market society ) and with out contacting him, the law forcement bureaucracy take the word of an other, possibly disgruntled, pissed off ‘owner’ of what ever he repoed. And they do a SWAT dance.
Stupid done, over a stupid law, on the word of a person who couldn’t and didn’t make payments and didn’t voluntarily return property, as he agreed to do somewhere in the contract, such that this guy had to go get it.
Must not be a lot of top flite crime in that area.