Amendment II, a body armor company, says it saw 500 percent increase in sales. Dec. 19, 2012— -- Body armor companies are having a surge of sales for bulletproof backpacks following the Sandy ...

Sales for bulletproof backpacks and child-sized body armor manufactured by a Utah company have increased 500 percent since last week’s shooting massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary ...

And then there’s the Rapid Armor Deployment Pack (R.A.D.) from Ares Armor ($284.95). “It’s a plate carrier disguised as a bookbag/backpack,” writes a Military Times reviewer.

Today in dystopian additions to school supply lists: bullet-resistant panels for kids’ backpacks. Florida Christian School, the Miami Herald reported, has begun selling $120 inserts that turn a ...