After a year of civil unrest, the U.S. is running low on body armor and gas masks

January 16, 2021

A retailer in Oregon has sold out of decontamination wipes designed to remove chemical agents such as pepper spray. Customers cleaned out thousands of pieces of body armor from a store in Texas as soon as they went on sale. Recent buyers have been focused on body armor. When his company debuted a line of lightweight body armor last year, it sold out immediately. Sales of body armor and pepper spray have similarly tracked with national and international outbreaks of violence.