The Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting has prompted increased demand for body armor backpacks. Sales for one company that makes the items have tripled, reports Mother Jones.

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia — From cold weather gear to body armor to air crew life preservers, targeting and soldier-borne computing, the epicenter for soldier gear has a host of new or improved items of ...

Body armor designed for men could be deadly when women use it because of a design flaw that can send bullets ricocheting off women’s chests and up into their throats. Congress is now scrambling to try ...