A place to post product recalls. Recalls can be national or local, even just one store down the street. Nor are they limited to one country, if a product is declared unsafe by the government or the maker, share it here.
Title should reflect what's being recalled, body should say where and/or have a link to the announcement.
I know they're hurt and they are grieving, but the parents did not operate the safe according to instructions and did not provide adequate supervision of their child knowing there are loaded firearms in the house.
Under the law in some states, they would lose their guns all around because they didn't secure them properly.
I'm not pro-gun, but this is not justice.
True, but you would expect that it would require saving at least one fingerprint for that feature to function, just look at a modern cell phone, you can't turn the function on unless you program it, the company is definitely at fault for not putting in a bare minimum of safety into it.
The parents should be in prison for failure secure their guns. They can sue the manufacturer from prison. If they win, they can use that argument for early release.
More of a gun cabinet really. If the lock doesn't work is it really safe?
The safes contain a biometric reader that allows unpaired fingerprints to open the safe until a fingerprint is programmed, allowing unauthorized persons, including children, to access hazardous contents, including firearms
It's not that the lock doesn't work, it's that they never set it up.
Lock should not default to "any print unlocks it until it's programmed." Like someone mentioned above, if you don't add a fingerprint to your phone, then fingerprint unlock is disabled. Otherwise, anyone could get into your phone if you didn't set up your fingerprint. And that's a PHONE, not a gun safe.
The manufacturer should have required the physical key to be present and the safe unlocked before you can program a code or fingerprint. This is how cheap ass Amazon combo locks work. While I feel the onus is almost entirely on the parents here, the manufacturer is at the very least negligent in its design.
So, the parents thought it magically came pre-programmed with their fingerprints from the factory and went; "hey, it works out of the box, how neat is that?!"
I'm sure they could've/should've taken higher quality idiots into account when making the thing, but is it really too much to ask of parents to read a manual and verify that a lock works as it should, when it is to keep firearms out of reach from your children?
I mean, yes? It’s insane to think that a fingerprint reader is designed, by default, to open from any fingerprint.
I don’t think it’s a stretch to believe that if you put your finger on a lock and it unlocks that you might believe it also programmed itself to use only that fingerprint.
Sorry, but this is a really stupid thing to say. A fingerprint scanner shouldn't work unless a fingerprint has explicitly been set up.
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