Lanore saw a problem and came up with the Gun Leash. Gun Leash is a recently patented device that uses a beacon attached to a firearm and paired to a mobile app. The mobile app runs silently and notifies the gun owner when their weapon is no longer with them. The beacon is a proximity sensor, not a GPS. After you download his Gun Leash app and stick the sensor on your gun, it will send a notification to your phone if you were to walk away and get a certain distance away from your gun. [More]
Here’s his website.
I’ve pretty much established myself over the past few decades as a hater of “smart guns.” This ain’t that.
As long as installing them is not mandated and it doesn’t allow guns to be tracked, I’m not seeing a downside — other than trusting a gadget to do what we should be doing ourselves. Perhaps someone with more technical qualifications than I have will see something I don’t, for instance, could the proximity signal’s signature “alert” anyone nearby who had a receiver?
It looks like not many have discovered them on X. I’m going to copy them when I send out this link, so at least WoG readers will know how to get comments to them. They don’t seem like antis trying to get a nose under the tent, and they seem like they’re sincere about trying to provide a solution to a problem, so I hope those sending opinions their way keep that in mind.
Gun owners on social advocacy media can be kind of… raw, much of the time with good cause, but I’m not seeing anything here that does not deserve respect. Me, I never post anonymously and I never say anything to a man online that I wouldn’t say to his face.
[Via Jess]
