I agree he’d get staggered. I only pointed out that the press got it wrong about him wearing body armor. Cue in the journalist’s “assault weapon” “ AK-47 identification picture.
The same press that considers having, say 400 rounds in an ammo box, as "stockpiling"?
And actually, my post wasn't aimed so much at you, it's just that I heard from this friend for the first time since the shooting only yesterday, and it was affirming to hear his well-qualified opinion. I shoot a bit and am around a lot of CC types, well trained, and was getting pretty sick of seeing all these "experts" on FR coming on and assuring everyone that because of Holmes' body armor (and it turns out it was about as "real" as the typical journalist's "automatic weapon"), CCers in that theater, had there been any, would have been powerless to stop him. I'm very familiar with what a regular ol' .45 slug does to a heavy steel target, and I can imagine the impact it would have on an average sized guy wearing a kevlar vest: it would probably knock him flat on his ass! Methinks a lot of folks opining on the futility of shooting at a guy wearing body armor, haven't done much actual shooting.
So it was nice to have my and my CC friends' conclusions that the shooter would have been knocked silly by .45 rounds hitting that body armor, confirmed by a true expert.