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I've been encountering this issue as well. In my case this has been happening a lot due to the trains in my base but it's still annoying to deal with.
A simple workaround that I found is opening my body first, picking the armor manually to put it in the slot and only after that breaking the entire corpse.

But it would still be nice if this intermediary step wasn't needed, especially in a more dangerous environment.

TL;DR

- On pickup corpse, pickup and equip armor first.

Why?

- So when you pickup a full inventory you don't get immediately rejected with "you are full", have to manually open your corpse, drag the armor in, and then finally get your extra inventory slots. Especially in a combat scenario this can be brutal.

Ideally you should also replace your pistol with the gun you had equipped in your first slot but at least this would let you actually get all your stuff in one action.