Ballistic Clipboard

Minuteman · Jan 30, 2016

Greetings!

Stumbled upon an interesting product. I see that there are a few different companies making products similar to this one.

What appears to make this ballistic clipboard a little better is the size, shape and handle. It's level 3A, so it's equal to the level of protection of most police vests; which is pretty much good for all handguns.

The clipboard is very reasonably priced at $150, however for orders of 6 or more they do offer discounts. For most of us, this is just a novelty, but for some of our MDShooters members, this might be a viable work item. I left a message with the company to see what kind of price they might give if we do a group buy for say, 10 or so.

Please give me some indication of your level of interest so when I discuss with the company I can give them a more accurate estimate of number of clipboards we might be interested in and get a more accurate price.

Minuteman · Jan 30, 2016

http://www.impactarmortech.com/Impact%20Armor%20Technologies%20-%20Ballistic%20Clipboard.pdf

ohen cepel · Jan 30, 2016

Makes since for LE and some others but not me.

Great idea and I do appreciate you trying a group buy.

Minuteman · Jan 30, 2016

ohen cepel said:
Makes since for LE and some others but not me.

Great idea and I do appreciate you trying a group buy.

There are a lot of firearms and security instructors that might want them for their classes. Might be a handy thing to keep in your car, could be used as something of an improvised shield in some situations. At $150 or less, hard to beat the value.

pbharvey · Jan 30, 2016

Isn't this what they wanted to use at the university of maryland eastern shore a while back?

Edit: here Eastern Shore professors to get bulletproof whiteboards

Minuteman · Jan 30, 2016

pbharvey said:
Isn't this what they wanted to use at the university of maryland eastern shore a while back?

Edit: here Eastern Shore professors to get bulletproof whiteboards

Interesting. I don't think its the same product.

moojersey · Feb 2, 2016

Great item, but I don't really see myself ever using / needing

Hawkeye · Feb 3, 2016

They're a cool idea, but with one that small, I think it would be kind of hard to use. I mean, you could hold it in front of yourself as you charged someone, I guess.

I've seen a lot of product like this (I work in higher Ed) come out since the VA Tech incident. Some of it is more useful / makes more sense than others. Some schools have bought these for teachers, but what I would rather see would be a combination of a door locking device like the Barracuda and a roll down ballistic shield to cover the door, or a bulletproof whiteboard large enough to attach to the back of a door.

There have been studies that show that when there's an active shooter type situation, if there's a locked door the shooter will pass that room by and go look for easier targets. Things like the Barracuda that I linked above are a really cheap way to protect students that I wish more schools would pay attention to.

Minuteman · Feb 4, 2016

moojersey said:
Great item, but I don't really see myself ever using / needing

Agreed. For most of us just a novelty. It almost inexpensive enough, I kinda want one to discuss during some training, and show my buddies at our gun-club and other meetings. Show and tell is getting a little boring.

Hawkeye said:
They're a cool idea, but with one that small, I think it would be kind of hard to use. I mean, you could hold it in front of yourself as you charged someone, I guess.

I've seen a lot of product like this (I work in higher Ed) come out since the VA Tech incident. Some of it is more useful / makes more sense than others. Some schools have bought these for teachers, but what I would rather see would be a combination of a door locking device like the Barracuda and a roll down ballistic shield to cover the door, or a bulletproof whiteboard large enough to attach to the back of a door.

There have been studies that show that when there's an active shooter type situation, if there's a locked door the shooter will pass that room by and go look for easier targets. Things like the Barracuda that I linked above are a really cheap way to protect students that I wish more schools would pay attention to.

Sounds good, and thanks for that link, I've never seen that before. Didn't see prices, but it could be easily improvised. I'm all for (approved) teachers and faculty members to be armed, with pepper, tasers or even guns (with training, background checks and licensing). A ccw permit pretty much covers all this already.

Hawkeye · Feb 4, 2016

Minuteman said:
Sounds good, and thanks for that link, I've never seen that before. Didn't see prices, but it could be easily improvised. I'm all for (approved) teachers and faculty members to be armed, with pepper, tasers or even guns (with training, background checks and licensing). A ccw permit pretty much covers all this already.

Those door devices are about $100 each. You could protect most schools for a few thousand dollars.

Minuteman · Feb 6, 2016

It's been a week, only a couple folks interested. Will let it go another week or so. Please take the poll if you are interested.

Minuteman · Feb 10, 2016

Dang boys.

I still want one.

Will help these folks making them, and those of us willing to talk about the possibilities.

I know, or will likely know each of you so I'll bring it if/when I get it.

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My department already has something like this, or I'll go through my department.

Very interested in participating in a group-buy; $150 isn't bad, but if we can save a little more, g

Interested, and maybe if it were closer to $100.

Not interested.

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