THE BULLET TEST TUBE CAN ILLUSTRATE BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA
A Simple Test Can Measure the Effectiveness of Soft Body Armor

Princeton, West Virginia (June 11, 2007) -- During the 1960s this country witnessed a dramatic rise in law enforcement officer fatalities. From 1966 to 1971, the number of officers killed each year in the line of duty more than doubled. Concerned by this rapid increase in officer fatalities and recognizing that handguns were used in the majority of the homicides, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) initiated a research program to investigate the development of lightweight body armor that police could wear on duty.  To date, soft body armor has been credited with saving thousand of lives and has become an integral part of law enforcement.

The Bullet Test TUBE and Defensive Handgun Test TUBE provide agencies and civilians a quick way to evaluate terminal bullet performance such as penetration and wound cavity volume.  The TUBE can also be used to measure blunt force trauma.  Blunt force trauma is a concern by those that manufacture and wear soft body armor because it specifically deals with the degree of injury that can be received when body armor stops a bullet.    The NIJ has rigid testing standards to measure the back face deformation of soft body armor when struck by a bullet but the procedure is complex and expensive.  By simply covering the TUBE with body armor and shooting it with various types of ammunition to include the officer's duty ammo, police agencies and individual police officers now have a convenient and affordable tool to help them stay safe and have confidence in their equipment.

For more information about The Bullet Test TUBE © (Patent Pending) or the Defensive Handgun TUBE , please write: Ballistic Technology, 3702 Rocky Branch Road, Princeton, WV  24740, or call 1-304-425-8823 or log on to their interactive Web site www.thebullettesttube.com .