Why You Need a Fingerprint Gun Safe

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and he kept talking about a fingerprint gun safe he just bought.  Not wanting to look stupid (since I am the guy that blogs about safes!), I went along with the conversation.  I kept thinking this was some kind of finish on the safe or it was talking about how light the door was that it takes just a fingerprint to move it.  I just hadn’t put it together so I said I would love to see this new purchase.

We go into his basement and walks over to this large gun safe and then I got it.  His fingerprint gun safe is a biometric gun safe.  Duh!  I should have figured it out, but I just couldn’t see the forest through the trees on this one.

Fingerprint gun safes use a biometric reader on the front of the door in place of a combination lock or electronic keypad to unlock the mechanism.  It is a very slick system where you simply put your index finger or whatever finger you have enrolled in the software on to the biometric scanner on the front of the biometric gun safe.  Within about 5-10 seconds, this reader compares your fingerprints to the ones it has on file.  If you are in the database, the biometric safe clicks open and you pull the door.

This type of gun safe is a very slick combination of brute force and technology.  The safe itself is what secures the contents against theft, but the technology in the fingerprint reader is what makes it so easy to use.  As I mentioned, you simply put your finger on the reader and it opens.  No more remembering combinations or keypad entries.  No more making mistakes and starting over.  This is especially important if you need to access the contents of this gun safe in a hurry.  You can even open this safe in low or no light as you just feel for the fingerprint reader.

I especially liked the fact that you can program multiple people into this rifle gun safe.  If your spouse or even grown children never use the safe, how are they suppose to remember the combination?  This way, go through the enrollment process once and years from now they can still open it.  No remembering combinations, no writing it down and hiding it.  In fact, I have even heard of people registering their attorney, in case they die.

Just bring your finger!