Parents anxious about their children’s safety are boosting sales of armored backpacks in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre, manufacturers are reporting.
“I can’t go into exact sales numbers, but basically we tripled our sales volume of backpacks that we typically do in a month — in one week,” Derek Williams, president of Salt Lake City-based Amendment II, told Mother Jones on Tuesday.
Wednesday, Williams told ABC News sales were now up “over 500%” since Friday, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza murdered 20 students, six teachers and his mother before killing himself in the Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
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