Bullet-resistant backpacks on the rise back-to-school shopping season

Steve Naremore, founder and CEO of TuffyPacks, hangs a backpack on a frame with one of his ballistic shields inside, before a shooting demonstration of the stopping ability of the product at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday. Naremore founded Houston-based TuffyPacks in late 2015 after his daughter, a fourth-grade teacher, told him about the frequency of active shooting drills for her students.

Steve Naremore, founder and CEO of TuffyPacks, handles one of his bulletproof panels that can be inserted into various makes and sizes of backpacks before a shooting demonstration of the stopping ability of the product at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday.

Steve Naremore, founder and CEO of TuffyPacks, shows the impact points on a ballistic shield retrieved from a backpack after a shooting demonstration of the stopping ability of the product at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday. His company produces some bullet-resistant backpacks but the bulk of his business is in removable ballistic shields that are inserted in backpacks.

Steve Naremore, founder and CEO of TuffyPacks, that produces some bullet-resistant backpacks and removable ballistic shields that can be inserted into various makes and sizes of backpacks, speaks during a demonstration at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday.

Steve Naremore, founder and CEO of TuffyPacks, inserts one of his ballistic shields into a backpack before a shooting demonstration of the stopping ability of the product at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday.

Steve Naremore, founder of TuffyPacks, notes the use and various options of his bulletproof inserts on the packaging of the product that can be placed into various makes and sizes of backpacks, during a demonstration at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday.

Steve Naremore, founder of TuffyPacks, disassembles one of his bulletproof inserts to retrieve the nine flattened rounds of 180 grains .40 S&W that he fired from his Glock handgun that were absorbed between the layers of the Aramid fiber ballistic material that make up the level IIIA handgun-only protection of the shields during a demonstration at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday.

Steve Naremore, founderof TuffyPacks, fires nine rounds of 180 grain .40 S&W from his Glock handgun into a backpack seven yards away containing one of his ballistic shields, made of Aramid fiber ballistic material during a demonstration of the stopping ability of the product at the Shiloh Shooting Range in Houston on Friday.

Steve Naremore, founder TuffyPacks, disassembles one of his bulletproof panels to retrieve the nine flattened rounds of 180 grains .40 S&W that he fired from his Glock handgun that were absorbed between the layers of the Aramid fiber ballistic material on Friday in Houston.