Hulls and hard suits, what actually has heavier armour in space?

I may not have been paying as much attention as perhaps I could but I have the impression that, in fiction and reality, most civilian space habitats, whether ships or stations use a relatively thick single hull. Meanwhile spacesuits and armour use heavy armoured shells of some kind of unobtainium, either an alloy or a complex composite formed into multiple layers designed to break up and absorb micro-meteors etc...

My question is which of these is actually more effective at stopping bullets. Actually what I'm really asking is, assuming we use modern hardsuits as a bench mark, could you build a gun that was "fine tuned" to kill a person through an armoured spacesuit without endangering a light weight civilian hull no heavier than what the ISS uses?

posted over 6 years ago

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