What are your thoughts on the IDENTILOCK? Would it be something you’d be interested in purchasing?
From power tools to chemicals to electrical outlets to swimming pools your house is filled with hazards. What you do as a responsible citizen to safeguard your home is obviously your business. Everyone is different. No one should ever be forced into a one-size-fits-all solution to home safety.
Same with guns. With respect to securing firearms, you do you. I’ll do me.
The good news is that regardless of what your approach is the free market gives us all sorts of options. The latest to spring up is the IDENTILOCK.
Billed as the “world’s first biometric fingerprint trigger lock” it allows users to both secure and access their guns in a flash, or as the promo literature says, “in the blink of an eye.”
“Firearm safety is not just a concern in our country, but worldwide,” said Omer Kiyani, founder and CEO of IDENTILOCK, in a press release. “I wanted to make our innovative biometric fingerprint trigger lock available to any responsible gun owner across the globe.”
To operate IDENTILOCK, a user places his finger on the fingerprint scanner. In less than a second, around .3 seconds to be exact, the lock releases the gun. It’s then ready for action.
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Battery life for the system is around six months. Users can recharge it in a USB port with a standard USB-C charging cable. However, if the battery should die, there is a mechanical override. All you need to have on hand is the key.
One can purchase an IDENTILOCK for the following handguns:
Based on the pricing on the website, each model retails for $239. There is a 90-day return policy if you’re unhappy with your purchase.
Having not had a chance to review it, we can’t really say much more about it. It looks cool. It seems to work reliably. But until we put it through its paces we’ll have to refrain from rendering judgment on its performance.
This does not prevent theft of your gun. It’s basically only a very expensive child safe lock. Pricing should be considerably less and supplied with a very heavy duty cable for purpose of leaving unattended in vehicle or RV and home..
Otherwise for that money I could buy a gun safe that bolts down and has cables. Nice idea that needs tweaking
You’re going to have to prove it to me with tens of thousands in frequent use over a long time. I have two biometric locks on two different brand gun safes and both of them are unreliable and a pain in the ass. Neither is fast access and neither works reliably. And it’s not just biometric locks.
We have been flooded with cheap consumer electronics, mostly made in China over the last decade and most of them are not reliable. My home alarm system almost always seems to have some problem that needs attention and that is a pain in the ass to fix. My son gave us an Alexa device and it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. It goes off for no reason. It won’t sync with other Amazon devices as advertised. Routers, modems, timers, all manner of electronic stuff that we are growing dependent on are unreliable.
I’m frequently at a local military base and it seems one or more of their systems is down every-time I go and those aren’t cheap consumer electronics. Power outages that are unexplained affecting hundreds of people and other problems seem to be more numerous than they used to be.
As for gun safes, I’m switching my quick access devices over to mechanical push button combination locks that don’t fail. My main safe is still a Sargent and Greenleaf commercial security combination dial type lock that while not as fast as a push button is reliable and I don’t need to have instant access to it.
If you could mount it in a vehicle or under a desk as a quick release mechanism, I could see something like that. Even if that’s the case, it’s not much smaller than mounting a small handgun safe for those applications.
It seems like a viable choice once they reduce it size to about 25% of its current bulk. It should be the size of the trigger not as big as the gun.
Good Luck with that piece of dung when the battery dies and the bad guy is coming for you and your family. You can ALWAYS throw the gun at the crook.
Absolutely not. If my gun is not on me, it’s locked in a safe LOADED. It’s just another foot in the door for “smart” guns. No RESPONSIBLE gun owner would need this. If you leave your gun laying around and you’re concerned a bad actor could get a hold of it, you shouldn’t own a gun (and a bad actor would take the whole thing and jimmy the lock off later).
While you are waiting for this thing to read and match your fingerprints, the perp has shot and killed you and taken your gun for his next crime.
If this is to be used in place of a combination or keyed trigger lock, then I believe it has potential. But the failure rate has to be infinitesimally small.
NEVER ! This is first step of gun control stealth version 1.0, then the mandated “Smart Gun”, then they remotely deactivate everyone’s gun, they don’t need to come and take your gun, because it will be useless anyway. Won’t happen in our lifetimes ( unless you are like 18)… But that’s the plan, to make sure nobody fights back while getting into the freight cars….
You need to stop taking whatever drugs you are on, hopefully you are not out in public.
Too Smart? Obviously NOT. You don’t have a clue.
I have a biometric gun safe that is gathering dust. It does not work if you press down to hard, at a angle, press down to soft, have some left over dirt on your finger, the last time you used it you left some fingerprint smudge that blurs your actual fingerprint, etc. totally unreliable. This does not even begin to address trying to get it to recognize my wife’s fingerprint or my other index finger as a backup. I have gone to a RF safe with a backup of five number code or a key.
Your fingerprint is just to prone to error. Reality is not the same as a well rehearsed, multi-take studio style video.
If it works as well as the fingerprint scanner on my laptop it will get you killed. Swipe again, please move your finger a little to the left, fingerprint not recognized….
People will LOOSE their FINGERS…. STUPID Anti-Gun CRAP!
Besides, there is ALWAYS a way around anything and Americans as a whole will be able to work around it EASILY.
I hope everyone understands that Bio-metrics and bio-metric identifiers are unique to individuals, they are more reliable in verifying identity when they work than driver license etc…and today’s knowledge-based methods. The collection of bio-metric identifiers raises privacy concerns about the ultimate use of this information just like DNA and these so called Ancestry sites that people pay to get their ancestry looked up. You really think they destroy that information or sell it?!?! To many people are either gullible are to trusting with information like this!
We have a fingerprint biometric gun safe.
No matter how much we tried, we could not
get it to read my wife’s fingerprints.
She has to use the backup key.
I remember when they put fingerprint technology on computers. I tried it and half the time it wouldn’t work. Once I cut my finger and it would not read the fingerprint of that finger until the all signs of the cut were gone. Had to use the alternate during that time and that didn’t always work. I deleted that off my computer and settled for a password. I suspect this will have some of the same glitches as the computers, regardless of what the sales pitch says.
Now the next step is to put that kind of tech on the gun itself.
On your gun, assuming you even own one, not mine!
No. They already have trigger locks, so this device appears to be no different and some safes have it as well. Helluva piece of whatever hanging off the trigger guard there. Need a bigger safe. Safe? Now there’s a novel idea.
No thanks. For all the reasons outlined here: https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/when-it-comes-to-guns-smart-is-stupid/