In a photo from ArmorMe, an advertisement for the company's bulletproof backpacks. A growing number of companies are marketing them to parents who are desperate to protect their children from gunmen.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The reaction to the deadly Connecticut school shooting can be seen at gun stores and self-defense retailers across the nation, with anxious parents buying armored backpacks for ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The reaction to the Connecticut school shooting can be seen in gun stores and self-defense retailers across the nation: Anxious parents are fueling sales of armored backpacks for ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A bullet-resistant backpack, it is unlikely it is on your child's list of back to school supplies. However, some parents are buying such items apparently with the thought, it ...

The Texas Guardian Program is a government-funded initiative to train teachers and staff in active shooter defensive tactics. I’m a father of two and the reason I started this company was to protect ...

As kids are getting ready to return to classrooms, a new item is landing on the list of "back to school" supplies: bulletproof backpacks. Sales of the bags are rising following high-profile school ...

A reasonable society, in response to repeated and devastating school shootings that take the lives of innocent kids before they have the chance to grow up, would pass new gun laws to keep such events ...

Bulletproof backpacks have been on the market for years, but recent mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso, among the worst of the 260 mass shootings in the United States this year, have brought renewed ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Anxious parents are driving up sales of armored backpacks for children in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting. Assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, like the ones used ...

When Ken Larson's 1-year-old son starts school in a few years, he'll be carrying an armored backpack. After the Connecticut school shooting, Larson and his wife have decided to buy him one just to be ...