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How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe
New submitter bupbin writes "We are providing a detailed report and analysis of eleven different popular gun safes produced by Stack-On, GunVault, and Bulldog to warn the public of the dangers inherent in some of these products because the manufacturers nor their major retailers will do so. In that report you can view eight different Stack-On models, one produced by Bulldog, and one manufactured by GunVault. A similar design defect is demonstrated in an inexpensive safe for storing valuables that is sold by AMSEC, a very reputable safe manufacturer in the United States. Unfortunately, their digital safe with their claim of a 'state-of-the-art electronic lock' can also be opened (literally) by a three-year-old because of a common mechanism used in the industry that is subject to circumvention."
Is that life a normal safe only:
1) it's labelled as "'specially for guns!";
2) its manufacturer is prone to shooting itself in the foot?
How is this really news for nerds? Seems like gun stories are here only to spark the inevitable flamewars over gun control.
Cue up the comments that have nothing to do with this story and use it to further their own political agendas.
While hunting is recreational, it is necessary in certain areas and not done purely for kicks and giggles. The OP is still a fucking idiot though, if you want to avoid all danger, just kill yourself. If you want to be a moron, blame the tools.
> Well... yes actually that is what it's saying.
Then you are dumb. The odds of my being killed by a gun have almost no relationship to whether I own one myself. Assuming I'm not the sort of idiot who is likely enough to shoot myself by accident to raise those odds out of the statistical noise of course. The odds of dying by gunfire are mostly driven by how popular they are in crime and how much crime I'm likely to be experience.
Since you are dumb you probably should not own a gun, you might be the sort of idiot who would shoot themself. You probably should not vote or reproduce either but alas you probably do those things.
Ths whole article is just about the general topic of security theater, most 'security' products are rubbish and locks only stop the honest. If you think a $36 product is actually a 'safe', again I have to conclude that you should not reproduce. They sell them because, exactly as the article notes, people buy them to check off a box.
Democrat delenda est
Gotta love the 2nd Amendment - where the best way to keep your family from being raped and murdered is to keep guns in the house, so everyone has the opportunity to accidentally/on purpose shoot themselves before a bad guy gets the chance.