Q:

How many humans would I need to skin to create a bulletproof full body suit

How many humans would I need to skin to create a bulletproof full body suit. The main thing is that I am a guy who wants to not get shot and I happen to enjoy harvesting human flesh and I am dead set on achieving my goal. How many humans am I going to need to obtain in order to create my suit? There is some wiggle room in how the suit can be constructed but I want to stick to the following guidelines.

Its main material is human flesh.
I also am going to need enough flesh to create a suit that encompasses my whole body.
By bullet proof you can assume I am trying to achieve the same result as a normal kevlar vest. I want to stop the bullet from reaching my skin. I may have some major bruises and it might hurt but I should come away reasonably unharmed.
The skin can be modified or treated but I want it to mainly be skin after its modifications. A process like what we do to leather would not be out of the question, since its not drastically changing what the material is made of.
I get that the amount of skin that I may need to be wearing could be much heavier and bulkier than anything a normal human may be able to carry. That's something I am willing to figure out, but bonus points if you think of a great method of augmenting the suit to get around that issue.

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Myth busters once tested the aforementioned obese myth by creating a 10 foot tube and filling it appropriately with enough material to simulate an inhumanly obese human gut and placed it in front of there standard ballistic gel dummy and fired a shot at distance.  The bullet traveled the length of the tube and still had enough energy to exit the gel dummy, which would be a lethal wound.  A human shield only works if the shooter does not wish to kill the human in front of the target. It is psychological, not practical.

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Ballistic gel is meant to simulate the properties of human flesh. Thus, ballistic gel testing can provide an approximation of how much human body you need between you and a bullet to stop it.
This article tested a number of different loads of .223/5.56mm caliber, which is a common intermediate cartridge. The typical penetration, going through 'heavy clothing', appears to be around 24".
This means that, in order to stop a .223 short, you'll need at least 24" of flesh in between you and the bullet. This won't even stop a full-sized rifle caliber, such as used by hunting or sniper's rifles, but it will protect against most pistol, shotgun, and submachine gun rounds.
Two feet of depth is a lot of flesh, well past the point of being a 'suit'. On that basis, I'd say that this question is not really answerable- it's far past body armor and firmly into 'flesh golem' territory.

