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April 22nd, 2011 at 10:12 am
Not a new idea. When I was a recruit Deputy in 1973, I bought one and carried it for car stops. They were made of pure Lexan then, a bullet-resistant type that the military had just ordered. The problem is, deploying the clip-board in front of you took one of your two hands, a hand which was better off helping secure your gun for counter-fire.
BTW, like the geek, I was fairly well laughed out of the briefing-room when called on to demonstrate the tactics of deploying the clip-board.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Actually, I can think of a Valid use for it. Say that you are at a “Hypothetical College” (Va. Tech) and some Nut Job decides to go on a Killing Spree (Va. Tech) while the local Police cower behind cover while waiting for the SWAT Team to show up and handle it (Va. Tech). One of those Clip Boards slid into one’s Back Pack could increase your chances of Surviving the Nut Jobs Shooting Spree (Va. Tech). One doesn’t need to have it in one’s hand. Just think of it as cheap Body Armor protecting one’s Spine during the “Hypothetical Shooting” (Va. Tech).
April 22nd, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Les,
I was thinking the same thing, but having two of them on hand,
and some duct tape…
😉
April 22nd, 2011 at 6:47 pm
This is not a new idea. At some point, police trainers noticed that cops shot at a traffic stop often had a bullet pass through their clipboard. They thought that a bullet proof clipboard might help. Two problems. First, how do you hold it in one hand so that the bullet doesn’t just push it out of the way. Secondly, the bullet resistant material doesn’t stand up to light and heat very well. I think that they would be better off using a hollow clipboard with vest material stuffed inside. That might deform and trap the bullet better than a rigid board, which would just get pushed out of the way.
April 22nd, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Aaargh!
THAT. DID. NOT. HAPPEN!!!
The first 5 officers to arrive at Norris Hall (all within seconds of each other) tried to enter immediately (PDF warning) – they could not get in because the doors for all three outside entrances were chained shut. They managed to get in through a fourth entrance from another building, and they had to shoot the lock off of that one.
Five minutes is about right for running around that building and trying each entrance.
From the first 911 call to the time the bastard took his own life was 9 minutes. Three minutes for the first officers to get there, five to find a door they could get in through, and one to get to the second floor.
The pictures and footage you see with officers standing behind cover were all taken late into the incident, while there were teams already inside clearing the building! The TV news was still showing that footage live 20-30 minutes after it started, while teams were sweeping the building because they didn’t know if there was a second shooter or not.
Sorry for the rant, but the whole “the police waited outside and did nothing” meme just pushes my buttons. It’s simply not true, and it keeps popping up despite the true information being readily available if one bothers to actually look rather than just trusting the lying MSM.
April 23rd, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Clipboard is useful for holding papers. Clipboard goes in backpack. Then useful for stopping bullets. If you needed a clipboard anyway and didn’t mind the extra 3lbs of weight, I can see this as a liner for your backback or briefcase.
Of course always remember this sage advice:
‘If Plan A is to take multiple .338 shots to the back, you really need to come up with a Plan B.”
April 23rd, 2011 at 8:25 pm
As noted by several others above, it’s an old idea. I saw one in the Policemen’s Hall of Fame in Titusville, FL, that had a hand strap, like a shield that allowed you to deploy it one handed. Honestly, which would you rather have happen: a bullet hits you in the face, or a clipboard super slams you in the face. I thought it was a pretty decent idea.
Since most cops wear vests these days, your head and neck are the most vulnerable, and would likely benefit from such a contraption. When you’re looking at the clipboard, you’re vulnerable, and the fact that the perp would have to aim for your face, but no matter if you get hit in the chest, or hit in the hand, or whatever, getting shot is gonna suck. Whether or not you get to tell anyone how much it sucked that matters.