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"Honey !"   "I Shrunk the Bullet Proof Vest !"
As Seen In Popular Science April 2002 Edition

A more comfortable way to toe the firing line. . .
For CBS journalists covering the war in Afghanistan, comfort and safety are no longer mutually exclusive. They're the first to purchase the new $1200.00 Millennium Superflex bulletproof vest from First Choice Armor. With just 12 plies of ballistic fabric, it's thethinnest vest on the market; others range from 28 to 40 plies.We tested the vest at First Choice's ballistics lab in Brockton, Massachusetts, using a laboratory rifle that can fire any caliber bullet. First Choice's Tom Madison mounts the vest on a large clay plate [to simulate human flesh] 16.5 feet from the gun. I grab a wire sticking out of the rifle and yank it. Bang! A 9mm round plows into the vest at 1,463 feet per second. The vest catches it, leaving a golf ball size indentation in the clay - the equivalent of busted rib. Next, Madison whips out a .44 round, capable of blasting the hand off someones wrist. My shot lands dead center in the heart leaving a fist-size divot. Looks pretty bad to me, but Madison says it equates to just a shattered sternum. Impressive.

First Choice won't discuss its bulletproof fabric
[a patent is pending] but interest is great. The company is now talking with city police departments.

Albert Baine
Popular Science