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Wow - this sure sounds a lot like anti-gun propaganda and not so much to do with gadgets. When will we see political "news" on our favorite candidates?
That's odd, I didn't read anything in there anti-gun.
There was absolutely nothing anti gun in there, in fact the author is a gun consumer. This is about safety, and even though I am a geek, and I read stuff here that interests me, 2 of my neighbors have guns, 1 of them has about 5 guns (he works in federal law enforcement), and he has what appears to be the same gun locks (remington) that was shown in that video.. that makes it relevant to me, as the last thing I need to hear is one of my neighbors kids shooting someone or themselves....
I dont think this is anti gun propoganda, gun locks SHOULD be as dam near close to infallible as possible. Especially when one of thier main goals is to protect children, however one of thier other goals is to protect the guns owner - what is the point of having one if some one breaks into your home and is easily able to bypass the lock and turn the gun against you or make off with it.
Trev,
How is someone supossed to get in my house, up the stairs, and into my bedroom before I can pick up my gun off the nightstand?
Safes and alarms are for protecting guns from theft.
Locks are for keeping the kids who are too young to understand what's dangerous away from things that are dangerous.
That's the point here, it doesn't protect your kids when it opens with just a little abuse (which kids are known to dish out on your junk from time to time).
I'm going to have to go ahead and point out here that the writer refers to his own Glock 9mm handgun in the article. I'll also point out that quite a lot of people who are not willing to read something are far too quick to dismiss it as propaganda. Someone has an agenda, but I wouldn't be pointing fingers at the author.
I, for one, consider myself very pro-gun, and I found the article very well written and unbiased. I don't know how you could construe anti-gun from it. Gun owners, more than anyone, need to understand the importance of securing their weapons. Every time some poor kid kills himself (or herself) with a gun, all the anti-gun nuts start squawking about making new laws restricting our rights. If all gun owners would properly secure their firearms, it would give the anti-gun movement that much less fodder for their arguments.
Damn straight. What is the point of a trigger lock if the gun is for protection? By the time you've gotten the stupid lock off your life and valuables are gone. You think with all the guns that existed in the years past that child-inflicted gunshot wounds would have been a bigger problem in the 30s, and even before given the number of guns per house hold. Folks need to realize that they cannot count on the government, society or a stupid trigger lock to protect their children. They need to train them, educate them and warn them themselves, its called "parenting".