After Shooting, Bulletproof School Bags Are Sold

After Shooting, Bulletproof School Bags Are Sold
After Shooting, Bulletproof School Bags Are Sold

Video: After Shooting, Bulletproof School Bags Are Sold

Video: After Shooting, Bulletproof School Bags Are Sold
Video: Bulletproof Backpack Sales Up 200% After Mass Shootings | TODAY 2024, May
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The nation continues to mourn after the terrifying shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School, which claimed the lives of 17 people.

In the face of the massacre at the South Florida school, the Bullet Blocker company - which produces a range of bulletproof products - has seen an increase in sales volume of bullet-resistant backpacks.

The prices of these bulletproof backpacks range from year to year, Joe Curran, on the online site TMZ, managed to sell 500 backpacks last Thursday, the equivalent of a 30% increase in sales.

Most of these bulletproof backpacks, suitable for both boys and girls, have been sold in Florida.

These backpacks are reinforced with a Kevlar lining, a polyamide five times stronger than steel, and weigh around 4 1/2 pounds.

According to information published on the Bullet Blocker Facebook account, the backpacks offer protection against.357 magnum,.44 magnum, 9mm pistols,.45 and hollow point ammunition.

The city of Parkland, Florida, where Nikolás de Jesús Cruz shot and killed several people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School - on February 14 - had been named the safest city in the state by a trade association, People reported..

A Venezuelan immigrant, a swimmer who had just earned a college scholarship, and a football coach are among the 17 fatalities of the massacre that mourned the nation on Wednesday.

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