I wish someone would create a spring-loaded biometric trigger lock. One where you activate the sensor with pinch pressure.
To unlock you pinch thumb and either middle or pointer finger together on either side of the device. The sensor activates and reads the print of either finger used. The locking bolt would disengage on print verification and a compressed spring around the bolt would cause the device to pop apart into two pieces dropping away from the trigger guard.
Ideally this device would allow you to keep a weapon anywhere you wished but prevent un-intended use. It would also come off fast enough as to put to rest accessibility concerns.
I have had this idea in my head for a long time now and reading a recent thread about securing your guns around kids prompted me to post my idea.
In my house, there is no safe yet. The majority of our guns are mainly kept in one room, but others are accessible in rooms we frequent in-case of robbery/invasion. All are concealed but exist fully loaded, with one in the pipe when possible; safeties on if they have one.
I was raised in a house full of readily accessible loaded guns. I follow the train of thought that high familiarity plus safety training is a good recipe for life with guns. I had the best training my father, a lifelong LEO and gun writer, could give. He lead me to the water.
But, I also subscribe to the idea that no matter your level of training or awareness, people (kids especially) occasionally screw up or get reckless. Hell, I have myself. I like to pretend it was a cursed gun since both accidents, separated by a gulf of years, were with the same gun. Once as a kid (reckless) and once as an adult (screw up). I sold that damned spanish pistol in case you were curious.
Having two sons (1yr and 4yrs old) I am very torn. Do I continue to stay at the bleeding edge of readiness or invest in some physical security measures? Anyway, you would think with today's technology this choice would not be necessary.
I really wish someone would run with my idea or similar and make it work. Do it for the love of gun ownership and the hate of compromise. Do it for all of us. Hell it might even trip up the gun-grabbers.
To unlock you pinch thumb and either middle or pointer finger together on either side of the device. The sensor activates and reads the print of either finger used. The locking bolt would disengage on print verification and a compressed spring around the bolt would cause the device to pop apart into two pieces dropping away from the trigger guard.
Ideally this device would allow you to keep a weapon anywhere you wished but prevent un-intended use. It would also come off fast enough as to put to rest accessibility concerns.
I have had this idea in my head for a long time now and reading a recent thread about securing your guns around kids prompted me to post my idea.
In my house, there is no safe yet. The majority of our guns are mainly kept in one room, but others are accessible in rooms we frequent in-case of robbery/invasion. All are concealed but exist fully loaded, with one in the pipe when possible; safeties on if they have one.
I was raised in a house full of readily accessible loaded guns. I follow the train of thought that high familiarity plus safety training is a good recipe for life with guns. I had the best training my father, a lifelong LEO and gun writer, could give. He lead me to the water.
But, I also subscribe to the idea that no matter your level of training or awareness, people (kids especially) occasionally screw up or get reckless. Hell, I have myself. I like to pretend it was a cursed gun since both accidents, separated by a gulf of years, were with the same gun. Once as a kid (reckless) and once as an adult (screw up). I sold that damned spanish pistol in case you were curious.
Having two sons (1yr and 4yrs old) I am very torn. Do I continue to stay at the bleeding edge of readiness or invest in some physical security measures? Anyway, you would think with today's technology this choice would not be necessary.
I really wish someone would run with my idea or similar and make it work. Do it for the love of gun ownership and the hate of compromise. Do it for all of us. Hell it might even trip up the gun-grabbers.
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