Got this from one of the gun groups!
Fortress gun safe recall!!!
Roughly 61,000 biometric gun safes sold nationwide are being recalled after the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy, Fortress Safe and the U.S. Consumer Product Commission announced on Thursday.
The recalled safe poses a serious safety hazard and risk of death due to a programming feature that can allow unauthorized users, including children, access to the safe and its potential deadly contents, including firearms, according to the Naperville, Illinois-based company and regulatory agency.
The recalled safes include the following model numbers: 11B20, 44B10, 44B10L, 44B20, 55B20, 55B30, 55B30G, 4BGGBP and 55B30BP.
Fortress Safe can be reached at 833-588-9191 or online HERE or HERE. Consumers experiencing issues with a recall remedy can fill out a complaint form with the CPSC HERE.
Full article HERE, from CBS News.
If you know anybody that has one, please let them know!
Here’s the recall notice from the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission: https://is.gd/SrLIL3
This includes a link to the Fortress Safe recall page.
For my money, physical security is too important to trust to anything dependent on electrons. Happy to report that my safe has a mechanical dial. Safe built by EKR manufacturing–Eric K. Ronning, who built safes in his shop.
The problem with dial safes is that they take long to open and you need a light to see the dial. This means when you NEED the gun, you won’t be able to access it. Well not in a timely matter.
Also, finding safes with mechanical dials is getting harder and harder.
The intent of these lock boxes (they’re not what I would call a safe) is to give you quick access while keeping you legal (because so many places have stupid ‘safe’ laws – which are meant to protect criminals more than you).
If you have children in the house, there is never any excuse for not teaching them gun safety. Whether you have guns or not.
And yes many of these ‘quick access’ gun boxes are easily defeated. Part of that is they’re all chinese junk.
Why on earth would anyone keep a gun they may NEED RIGHT NOW locked in a safe? And yes, I get it. Wife and I raised three kids. My rule was kids could touch any gun they wanted to anytime they wanted to, BUT ONLY IF I WAS PRESENT. Take away the mystery and teach proper handling.
First day on the range around age 7. Sniping empty soda cans at 100yds (off a bench) with a .22 and 4X scope the end of the day. Let them shoot full plastic water bottles. Great fun. During target change, hand them a shot up water bottle and tell them, “Now fix it. Put it back the way it was so it holds water”. Then after a pregnant pause, nose to nose, “Never point a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy”.
Because in a lot of states if all of your guns aren’t in a gun safe you go to jail and lose your rights to own a gun. That’s why.
12?
Why hadn’t the father taught the kid gun safety? He was old enough! Hell I was handling guns at 8!
This is one of the problems with safes, people shirk on the more important things, like teaching their children that guns aren’t a toy and aren’t for them to play with.
If this is the safe I think it is, taking out the batteries won’t stop this from happening. You can easily open it externally due to openings in the sides of the ‘safe’. It’s just a lock box and it’s that poorly made.
But again, I don’t blame the safe here, I blame the parent for not taking the time to teach his kid gun safety. But obviously no one wants to take responsibility anymore.
Yup. What you said. Got the “This is my gun in my briefcase and if I catch you looking or touching it I’ll tan your hide and hang it on the wall” speech. Along with “These are my shotguns, pistols, rifles and if I catch you looking or touching them I’ll….” and then a quick course on firearm safety.
At the age of 5.
Dad was serious about safety. We had cap guns and such, but all real guns were behind a mental barrier of pain and suffering that kept even my curious fingers far far away from them.
Seriously, teach them and it won’t be an issue.
Ag- Thanks!
RHT- Concur, mine has the old S&G dial combo
John- Good points, and yes, I taught my kids from about 5 about gun safety, and they taught their children at the same age.
Beans- Concur!
This is a common problem – biometrics aren’t as unique as they are advertised; I’ve known families where the scanner was set for dad but it worked for the kids too.
I don’t have any biometric devices and plan to stay far from them for my own use.
Jon- Good point!