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Spokane shoppers making a run on guns and ammunition during outbreak
Thu., March 19, 2020 By Thomas Clouse [email protected] (509) 459-5495 Spokane shoppers continue to ravage grocery store shelves, but they also have begun buying guns, ammunition and camping supplies as coronavirus concerns have turned to thoughts about home...
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Visiting a doomsday prepper
Tom goes to see a doomsday prepper and what he sees as beyond imagination. How he prepares for the end of time you never saw before. In the northern states, the people well prepared for a lot of doom and gloom, but John Adrain goes one step further. He thinks that the...
Doug Clark: Spokane’s own End Times prepper turns inventions into profit
By Doug Clark [email protected] (509) 459-5432 In these perilous days of malice and mayhem, does it really ever pay to leave the house without first pulling on a polo shirt that will stop a .44 Magnum bullet at point-blank range? And, hey, as long as we’re being...
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Who Buys Bulletproof Sofas? – Business Week
“I don’t have any homeless customers. It tends to be the 1 percent.” by Polly Mosendz March 8, 2016, 4:00 AM PST March 8, 2016, 7:54 AM PST In 2000, John Adrain ran into a problem common among San Francisco residents: He had too much stuff and too little space. But...
THIS BULLETPROOF COUCH COMES WITH ITS OWN HIDDEN GUN SAFE – MAXIM
Now *this* is a couch built for a man cave. SCOTT THARLER MAR 22, 2016 Often times, you’re at home enjoying some buttered popcorn and a movie, when an unwelcome guest bursts through the door with a .44 Magnum, threatening to “blow your head clean off.” Do you...
Best place for a bulletproof safe? This DFW company makes them in couches and beds
When John Adrain was in second grade, he answered a question wrong on a test, or so the teacher thought. The question was, do you have a fire engine? Yes, he answered. And he was telling the truth. His dad collected military vehicles, so he got a note from home saying...
Bulletproof Blinds on the Market
By Kim Baldonado and Troy McLaurin
Frisco company that makes concealed safes unveils bulletproof blinds
Evan Hoopfer Digital ReporterDallas Business Journal John Adrain has been approached by people wanting to acquire his company, but he has no interest in selling. “What would I do?” he said. “I can’t work for someone else. I’d show up to work with my dogs and that’d be...
INVENTOR CREATES ‘BULLET PROOF BLINDS’ DUE TO VIOLENCE
LOS ANGELES -- Recent gun violence has raised fears about attacks and now a Los Angeles-area inventor said he developed a special shield suitable for use at home or at the workplace. The product is called Bullet Proof Blinds, which is actually more like a ballistic...
Spokane inventor aims to make schools safer with bulletproof blinds
Mass shootings or drive-bys have been in the headlines quite a bit, and one Spokane man may have a solution to protect people. John Adrain is an inventor, and he created the Bullet Barrier Blinds. They’re window blinds that are bullet proof and it took him three years...
Doug Clark: Inventor, survivalist designs high-tech home security systems
Doug Clark, columnist The Spokesman-Review Last Thursday I … Blasted a bullet-proof couch cushion with a silencer-equipped .45. Took heart-thumping rides in a supercharged, 1,000-horsepower SUV and truck. Gave noogies to Giff and Bella, a couple of lovable...
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John Adrain, who has licensed patents that represent billions of dollars in sales, helps struggling inventors and their families who are down to their last hope.
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Bulletproof couch on display at Fort Worth hunting show
FORT WORTH -- At the Hunters Extravaganza at Will Rogers Coliseum, people are window shopping. And when they reach Booth 1229, they start furniture shopping. "If you break it down and remove the cushions," explained Brian Poitevent, as he revealed what was...
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Sweet dreams and firearms
by Kim Crompton Spokane inventor John Adrain figures that since people spend a third of their lives in bed, there's no better place for gun enthusiasts and people concerned about possible home invasions to store their weapons than under the mattress—though in a...
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Doug Clark: High-tech gadget guy a perfect ‘prepper’
Doug Clark The Spokesman-Review From an impenetrable gate to under-mattress safes, John Adrain’s cliff-side Spokane County manor (don’t ask where it is or I’ll have to kill you) is a survivalist showcase worthy of national TV. No kidding. Adrain and his amazing...
The Dawn of the Digital Hot Rod
By Barry Winfield As six hot cars career along the Firestone test track at Fort Stockton, Texas, competition and apprehension reign among one group of spectators: the guys who, to the tune of more than a half a million dollars, have tweaked these cars into terrifying...
MEET THE PREPPERS: JOHN ADRAIN
"I'm preparing for the unexpected." John Adrain is a successful inventor living in the Pacific Northwest. He has a variety of fears, including nuclear fallout, natural disasters, and biological terrorist attacks. Fearing that people will go to desperate measures to...
‘Colbert Report’ Boosts Bed Bunker
John Adrain is a lukewarm fan of Stephen Colbert, the cable-TV comedian who slices up hypocritical politicians and skewers fat cats on his popular show “The Colbert Report.” But Adrain is singing Colbert’s praises this month. A segment last week on Colbert’s show...
The newest in home safety: The $7,000 bulletproof couch that hides a fire-retardant gun safe
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Seven thousand dollars will buy a designer sofa made from fine Italian leather. Or, for the more security-minded, it will net a custom-made couch with bullet-proof cushions that hides a fire-retardant gun safe. The CouchBunker promises to hide...