I, am Joe Curran, the J in MJ Safety Solutions. I am a 42 year old married father of a daughter, a son, and a golden retriever. I'm the guy on the left in the picture. This is a brief history of my company;
After the columbine tragedy my partner, Mike Pelonzi and I, two concerned fathers, were worried about our own children’s safety. As longtime friends and firearms instructors we made the decision to become proactive in giving students and teachers a safety tool when it came to armed intruders in schools.
After years of testing we succeefully created the "My Childs Pack". A full size Bullet proof backpack for students and teachers to use. Adding a 20oz (The weight of one bottle of water) affordable ballistic panel that has been certified to a threat level IIIA.
The ballistic panel is sewn into the back of the backpack and gives the user a level of protection never before offered to the civilian market..
These high quality rugged backpacks have multiple pockets, sleeves, beverage holders, and of course a laptop compartment which meets the needs of any student at any grade level.
We then created MJ Safety Solutions, their company that would make these ground breaking Bullet Proof Backpacks available to students , teachers and others.
The backpacks were introduced August 8, 2007 in a story in the Boston Herald and then featured on Fox 25 news and wcvb channel 5 news with Pam Cross. The story of the My Childs Pack a Bullet Proof backpack continued to draw media attention across the United States and abroad. Featured on over 500 News reports, radio ,TV shows and numerous magazines include Time Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The wall Street Journal, etc.
Bill Barbin, another longtime friend of mine came on board to take on the marketing and e-commerce end of things, he brings a fresh perspective to our company.
My Childs Pack continues to make its mark around the world as the first affordable lightweight full size bullet proof backpack.
MJ Safety Solutions has received thousands of e-mails from concerned parents, teachers, police and others with questions, praise and suggestions for new products. In answering some of those needs MJ Safety Solutions has designed the Executive Pack, The explorer Pack and the Ranger Pack all come with the same ballistic panel that is in the My Childs Pack.
MJ Safety Solutions also offers a briefcase panel that comes in a water resistant nylon cover they, also do custom work on request.
You can view my companies website at
http://www.mjsafetsolutions.com/ or e-mail them at
info@mjsafetysolutions.com. Check out the video of us shooting our panel and let me know what you think.
