Just cruised past Matt 25:40, and saw this item. It has me floored.
Remember the news item that went around last week, about super-strong bike locks that could be picked with a Bic pen? That was an important story, affecting lots of people with expensive bikes. The company involved, Kryptonite, fessed up and decided to make good on their product, by admitting the problem on their site and offering free replacements.
So Matt 25:40 points out that you can open gun cabinets the exact same way! So far, no one seems to be listening. Matt finds the same make of gun cabinet still being sold in his area.
Apparently the only thing standing between hundreds if not thousands of weapons and curious seven-year-olds (not to mention adolescents with a false sense of invulnerability) armed with a Bic pen… is nothing.
Let’s join Matt 25:40 in getting the word out. This really is a life & death issue.
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It seems to me the referenced newsarticle quoted a spokesperson for the gun cabinet manufacturer as saying their engineers were working on the reported problem (over the week-end) and would be posting something on their web site the first of the week, as in Monday or Tuesday.
How much faster does one have to react to a single reported problem [with their specific product] than this? And of course over the week-end there could be other retailers still selling the same product. No decision has as yet been reached!
BTW, one may still purchase the “bad” Kryptonite bicyle locks at retail outlets, even though this expose has been public for well over a week and the manufucturer is now planning a product exchange program. Experience has shown that even bad food items can’t ALL be pulled off grocer’s shelves in three or four days.
I agree the issue is serious and need’s prompt attention and resolution. I disagree with the conclusions expressed - they seem too alarmist to be real. Is there another agenda at work here? If these were locking medicine cabintets instead of gun cabinets would the same angst apply?
Let’s check their web site at: http://www.stack-on.com/index.html by midday on Tuesday. If they fail to address the issue by then, I’ll take everything back and agree with you.
Interesting thhing is there was a story in Wired saying that the problem has been know since 92, (pre web) but didn’t get the publicity hence the companies didn’t do anything. It it applies to all locks of this type, so it not like this sould of been a suprise to their Eng team.
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Right, good points. I suppose I might tip my hand and say that I know the individual who reported this problem. This isn’t an isolated incident. The engineers at Stack-On replicated the problem last week. So a decision *has* been reached.
But that said, this isn’t about Stack-On. It is more about getting the word out to gun owners who have this type of lock on their gun cabinets. I just wish the company would hurry up and tell the public what they have already concluded themselves.
I know that some people keep loaded firearms for protection. We can debate whether that makes sense, but in the meantime I think we should make every effort to keep weapons out the hands of kids. Are millions of kids going to die in the next day? No. But one kid’s death is too many.
And all this time I’ve been using a papermate.
Shoot.
I’m glad this has been brought up.
*1200 Canadians have been killed and over 1000 have been injured with firearms each year during the past 10 years. For example, in 1995, 911 Canadians committed suicide with firearms, 145 were killed with firearms in homicides, 49 died in “accidents,” 6 were killed in legal interventions and 14 deaths were undetermined, creating an overall firearms death rate of 3.8 per 100,000*
*Every year in the US, more than 30,000 people are shot to death in murders, suicides, and accidents. Another 65,000 suffer from gun injuries.*
One death is too many, I hope this company addresses this clearly and quickly, a faulty lock is fixable.
Looks like the manufacturer is finally making their admission public.
http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2354128