Shot Stop Armor Dissolved Over Chinese Armor Scam

ShotStop Ballistics was recently dissolved over a scandal involving use of fraudulently manufactured body armor products.They claimed to be using US manufactured materials and it was determined after investigation by NIJ that indeed it was chinese junk marsquerading as fake body armor.

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[VSO_Gun_Channel]

As mentioned in the video, if you believe that you are in possession of fraudulent product send me an email, I would be interested to showing exactly what is wrong with it.

[BuffRANGE]

Curtis, are you willing to share information in regards to the NIJ testing and failure that started the investigation? ShotStop Only has 3 unique NIJ CPL listed models. One of them is suspiciously a Tencate # appended with SSB. Many of us have wondered how that became NIJ CPL rated. The other 2 are PE plates. All 3 of which are still currently CPL listed. Raw materials can be sourced almost anywhere to build product (for example Hesco ceramic cores are generally from Italy), but as you allude to if you aren't quality controlling those materials, and then lot testing them, that's not good.

Most LE that have been contacting me had purchased a lot of their ceramic plates after onsite demos from SStop showing amazing performance above and beyond most of some models capabilities ie in one instance the GT2 stopping M2AP.
SStop lost out on an LE bid because that LE agency had a clause about seeing manufacturing and random inspection. I feel LE agencies should all do that, and add additional clauses to inspect pre and post bid product, as well as 3rd party threat validation removed from the bidder's controls.

[derek]

This is why we can’t give up these things…particularly Ammo to foreign companies!!!
We put lives at risk, especially when the military is using it!

[Datsrboi]

I own this product and not too happy seeing this.... Paid with my own money.

[WesternReloader]

Whoever SELLS a product absolutely is liable for what they profit from.

[CyclingAddiction]

This news came out a few days after I ordered from a well known company. They contacted me and changed to an upgrade at no additional cost.

Very glad the business that contacted me and took care of it.

[geeccc]

Wow! Good catch by the NIJ. Thanks for covering this.

[magichandpuppet]

I paid Shot Stop over $1260 for the Duritium GT2 plates after watching 3 of 7's review. I can't afford to replace them.

[ChipLinck]

Wow, it just amazes me how companies think they can get away with this sort of thing. I'd never heard of Shot Stop before, and just saw a video recommending their plates. Went to their site and saw the "ShotStop is no longer taking orders until further notice." popup. Then, went searching for what happened and found this video.

[aaronkeener]

Happy to see you talk about this copper grease and buffman range the only other people talking about this issue.

[scottlawrence]

Thank you for passing on this information, I depend on my armor 40 hours a week.

[BasementOps]

Wasn't this plate offered in the Warrior poet website? Man, 1st John gets bought by DD offering a 4k rifle, and now this...wow

[Stoney_AKA_James]

Oh crap, I have a set of their Duritium GT2 Single Curve plates, purchased about 5 years ago and wear it everyday.

[nathgibs]

Thanks for the heads up. I seriously was going to buy some. But I saw that their website was down, and then I looked into it and found your video. Again, you're literally a life saver.

[devalishxb]

Was close to buying some plates from them but they didn't have the level 4 pates in 11x14 so I went with RMA armament and ended up getting there 11x14 multi curve plates for a good deal this last holiday I'm glad I went with RMA

[tylerhall]

Wow, it was literally like a month or two ago I was about to drop some coin on shot stop plates, couldn't decide between them and hesco. Glad I didn't. Thanks.

[hec]

I was wondering why they are no longer shipping... sad to see it eneded this way. I have been looking at picking up some of their plates for a while.. now its just "snake oil". Hopefully there is more credibility and a higher standard for the armor manufacturer. Especially when they are asking 600 plus per plate.. thank you for informing us all of the corruption and providing us with a real solution.

[Chambers-vc]

I bought the duritium gt2 multicurve and side plates straight from the manufacturer and I even spoke with the owner and now this video! Wtf!

Edit: thank you for this video!

[colby]

I was wondering why they stopped taking orders. Looking at Hesco now.

[lonestarpiper]

This all legit came out 1 month after i paid 1400 hundred fucking dollars to this company.