Locked Solid doors may be the best security door layer but are not always palatable to the people in control. I had the privilege of being involved with armouredone early in their genesis. As a firearms instructor myself, they used my private range and some of my firearms to test their initial prototypes until they purchased a large enou…
Locked Solid doors may be the best security door layer but are not always palatable to the people in control. I had the privilege of being involved with armouredone early in their genesis. As a firearms instructor myself, they used my private range and some of my firearms to test their initial prototypes until they purchased a large enough facility and took it inside. The purpose designed shooter protection films are not the same as the re-marketed storm films often presented as a security solution. The UL ratings are fundamentally different and should be investigated by anyone with live people behind glass to protect. I have personally shot "storm" films and shooter rated films. What a difference. I was there at my range when a VP of engineering from a commercial national door brand said and I quote "we will have to redesign the door, the glass is now the strongest part" They have a UL shooter and fire rated glass (not a poly-carbonate so it does not need a drop down steel curtain for fire rating) that I know will stop a 44 magnum shot at 5 yds because I have the fully flattened yet intact slug in my pistol class props to this day. One of the two founders is both an ex-employee of mine as a high-school kid and a now retired SWAT officer as an adult. The day Sandy Hook happened, he determined his children's school was 40minutes away from him and his m4 in the trunk. His goal was to delay with the films retrofitted to existing glass and train and empower faculty to be their own first responders. I had the privilege to play an active shooter or instructor in some of the training. They would bring 20-50 instructors and train an entire school system's faculty in a day (1200+ staff through 3 distinct phases, rotate through lecture, class room tactics, large gathering tactics). As a CDL driver I was also privileged to be part of brainstorming and executing a bus driver training as well. I could say more, but people interested should look up the ul rating specs for the products they are interested in and watch the demo videos to see what they can and can not do. Keep up the good work Keith and thank you for making the youtube material available for us to pass on as well.
Locked Solid doors may be the best security door layer but are not always palatable to the people in control. I had the privilege of being involved with armouredone early in their genesis. As a firearms instructor myself, they used my private range and some of my firearms to test their initial prototypes until they purchased a large enough facility and took it inside. The purpose designed shooter protection films are not the same as the re-marketed storm films often presented as a security solution. The UL ratings are fundamentally different and should be investigated by anyone with live people behind glass to protect. I have personally shot "storm" films and shooter rated films. What a difference. I was there at my range when a VP of engineering from a commercial national door brand said and I quote "we will have to redesign the door, the glass is now the strongest part" They have a UL shooter and fire rated glass (not a poly-carbonate so it does not need a drop down steel curtain for fire rating) that I know will stop a 44 magnum shot at 5 yds because I have the fully flattened yet intact slug in my pistol class props to this day. One of the two founders is both an ex-employee of mine as a high-school kid and a now retired SWAT officer as an adult. The day Sandy Hook happened, he determined his children's school was 40minutes away from him and his m4 in the trunk. His goal was to delay with the films retrofitted to existing glass and train and empower faculty to be their own first responders. I had the privilege to play an active shooter or instructor in some of the training. They would bring 20-50 instructors and train an entire school system's faculty in a day (1200+ staff through 3 distinct phases, rotate through lecture, class room tactics, large gathering tactics). As a CDL driver I was also privileged to be part of brainstorming and executing a bus driver training as well. I could say more, but people interested should look up the ul rating specs for the products they are interested in and watch the demo videos to see what they can and can not do. Keep up the good work Keith and thank you for making the youtube material available for us to pass on as well.