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Discreet Defense: Why Executives Need Concealable Body Armor The 2003 film Runaway Jury made a significant plot shift from the popular John Grisham novel. On the one hand, it may have been due to Grisham's plot involving a court case against the tobacco industry having been brought to the big screen already. But the film producers probably also recognized that there's something more tense and hard-hitting about the direction the film took. The opening scenes feature office staff going abo …

Spartan Armor Systems Keeps Prices Stable One of our Spartan Armor team members pointed out a recent update he received from a U.S.-based meat company. It’s no surprise that our people would be on that kind of email list. The update was about tariffs, which have been a hot-button issue in the news lately. What are tariffs? What purpose do they serve? How will they affect the local and global economies? We’ll get to those questions in just a minute. You may be wondering what a …

West Virginia State Trooper , Abraham Bean, was shot four times at close range. At the time, Trooper Bean was wearing a Spartan Armor Systems Executive Protection Shirt that contained Spartan Armor Flex Fused Core™ Level IIIA body armor panels. Though terribly wounded, Trooper Bean survived the assault. Below is a brief account of the incident told by his father Brian Bean to Todd Meeks, president of Spartan Armor Systems, through email. “My name is Brian W. Bean. I am a retire …

Americans love celebrating a good milestone. We look fondly at the 1980 US hockey team scoring two goals in the third period to upset the Soviet Union in what became known as the Miracle on Ice. We remember Rickey Henderson stealing 130 Bases in 1982. We praise the landmark Heller decision the US Supreme Court issued in 2008.   Arizona celebrated its centennial in 2012, marking it becoming the 48th state in 1912. And right here in our Tucson, AZ operations facility, Spartan Armor w …

In 2015 the EPA issued a Notice of Violation of the Clean Air Act to the respected auto manufacturer Volkswagen. The EPA alleged that Volkswagen installed software in many of its diesel vehicles to circumvent EPA emissions standards. The deception eventually led to Volkswagen pleading guilty to three criminal felony counts and entering into a multi-billion-dollar settlement. The biggest problem with cases like these is not that they hurt a single company; it's that they tarnish the …