Posted on 04/29/2011 8:38:24 AM PDT by Abin Sur
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla., April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Improved Guns, Inc., a not for profit company, is founded to promote the US Pat 7,036,258, which is aimed at eliminating accidental shooting. The passive device is a pin that must be broken before the gun can be shot. Any firearm can be adapted by drilling a small hole in which to insert the appropriate pin. These pins are made with incremental breaking thresholds having a range of 11.5-15.5 lbs. Improved Guns, Inc. can easily retrofit all guns at our cost, although donations are appreciated. Hopefully, new guns will soon include this device.
The inventor, Lanny Lee says, "The only thing that makes this invention seem like a safety is that curious little children can't shoot themselves or their buddies when they find the gun." Mr. Lee added, "What the world needs least is another gun lock; what it needs are safer guns, and this device has surpassed all expectations in field trials.
"Despite owners' demands, and overwhelming studies, Detroit refused to provide seat belts until the late 60's, except as an expensive option. This continued to 1978 when the government required them to be installed. One has only to look at the old 50s cars to see how the industry spent vast amounts on useless things like padded dashboards. Only liability suits changed their attitude. Gun makers' reception to this life saving device has ranged from contempt to cold indifference, while their attitude seems to convey they can stand in the rain and won't get wet.
"Manufacturers' specification sheets show trigger pressure is generally 4-5 lb. In contrast, A NYPD officer told me they raised their guns to 9 lb. trigger pull, and except for sniper rifles, military weapons are slightly over 12 lb.
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Yeah, that's just the thing I want on my custom 1911. It'll shoot so much better with a 15 lb pull, after all. What's more, seeing someone who manufactures a firearm accessory say "There is a rapidly growing problem of accidental shootings due to the growing purchase of automatic firearms" doesn't exactly fill me with confidence regarding his product!
That's as far as I got.
Besides, what makes a gun safe is proper training/education and a brain.
Why is it that the answer for AIDS prevention, drug use, etc is education, education, education yet when it comes to guns liberals freak out over the idea of teaching kids gun safety?
Yeah, I know.....it's a rhetorical question.
I’m sure the dumbass that leaves loaded handguns where his kid can get them will be conscientious enough to use this pin.
With a 15 lb trigger pull, you might not get them with the first shot. Besides what's to say they won't substitute the lighter pins with ones much more difficult to shear?
Why is a 'firearm manufacturer/"retrofitter" operating as a "nonprofit"?--especially if this is such a 'good idea'?
What about little old ladies that can put 15 lbs on their finger?
a company mutilating guns to make them USELESS!
this is crazy like a fox for gun grabbers.
This will cause MORE accidents as people in emergency situations put to cut off the pin.
This seems more a legislative tool to ban gun use by mandating a defective product requirement.
/s
Other items/place/programs where Safety should be Achievable because of ACCIDENTAL deaths:
1) Honor Killings of females by Islam in the USA
2) Surgical accidents
3) Government ethanol subsidies that cause food shortages
4) Open border policy
5) ordering food at a McDonalds in a People of Color neighborhood
No effing way.
Accidental shootings are at an all time low so there isn’t any need for this. But like the Leftists say, if it saves just one child’s life...
Question 1: After you shoot it, say at the range, how do you pull the base of the old pin out and put a new pin in?
Question 2: Given that, what’s to keep a kid from just pulling the pin out?
If a requirement for physical strength is the safety, that’s an argument for keeping a Desert Eagle 50 cal, because the slide is very hard to rack.
Now, now...maybe we're being a bit too hasty. This company says they want to do this to all guns. I can only imagine how drilling a hole in my 99% condition Nazi-marked Walther PPK would enhance its value, after all.
I've toyed with the idea of getting a .50 handgun. I'd love to pick up a .50 GI 1911, but they're so durned expensive.
Hell Noooooo!
And not just a 15lb pull, but a 15lb pull with an abrupt release to 4lb or whatever. Yeah, that won't result in any accidental shootings of someone who didn't need shooting.
I think you're the one jumping to conclusions. For example, we could drill a hole in the owner of this company, and he'd probably be far more functional than without the hole! ;-)
ping-a-ling
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