I'm a civilian and I don't own a plate carrier, although I have nothing against the idea.
I do, however, have an outrageous number of mags available on my TT MAV.
I would guess it looks a bit ridiculous to people living in countries (or states) without mag restrictions.
Up here, though, I am stuck training with 5 round mags most of the time. So I carry a stupid number of mags with me for training purposes.
Anyway, the point I am making is that even if you look like an idiot, the important thing is that you are maxing out your efficacy. Sometimes that requires you to do things that look stupid to some people.
Of course, there are lots of things that look stupid because they ARE stupid, as well. If you're doing something that looks stupid and serves no purpose, it's stupid. If you're doing something that looks stupid but serves a useful purpose, well...looks can be deceiving.
Full disclosure: I'm the editor of Calibre Magazine, which is Canada's gun magazine. In the past I've done consulting work for different manufacturers and OEM suppliers, but not currently. M4C's disclosure policy doesn't seem to cover me but we do have advertisers, although I don't handle that side of things and in general I do not know who is paying us at any given time.
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