Start-up Company Skirts Gun Control Debate with Innovative Device to Defend Against the Fear of Mass Shootings.

A small Seattle startup has designed and manufactured an innovative, people-first device to defend against the scourge of gun violence. The invention, called the CoverMe-Seat, is a portable, lightweight seat-insert that turns into a bullet proof vest. All in all, changing the seat to a vest can be carried out in less than five seconds. CoverMe-Seat shields the user’s body from some of the most powerful handgun rounds and can include a lightweight ballistic shield that can stop ammunition shot from an AR-15-style weapon, which makes the seat a better choice than the alternatives.

“I’ve never met a person who likes thinking about staying safe in a mass-shooting scenario,” said Aaron Ansel, the Founder of Practical Protection. “Our government leaders should be working hard on common-sense firearm laws, which we support, but until that becomes a reality, we wanted a viable solution, so we came up with our own.”

The seat is superior to bulletproof inserts because it protects both chest and back of the person using it. In addition, using the back plate, the wearer is protected AR-15 rounds, something that nearly no other product is capable of. The seat weighs only about five pounds, less than a gallon of milk.

Andrew Enke, Chief Engineer, spent most of his career creating highly-precise medical implants. “I engineered the CoverMe-Seat to be both effective and simple. We designed the CoverMe-Seat around the idea that nobody decides they are going to wear a bullet proof jacket every time they go to a public event. We knew we needed to get over the idea that bulletproof protection requires compromise.”

The CoverMe-Seat is available for $100 at covermeseat.com/purchase.