Posted on 12/20/2013 2:28:10 AM PST by Daffynition
On December 16th the Gainesville, GA, school board voted to purchase Colt M4 AR-15s for resource officers in its middle and high schools.
The rifles will be kept in safes in school and will be accessed "using biometric technology." This will limit access only to those people -- resource officers -- whose finger prints have been saved into the biometric mechanism.
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Are they going to have ammo in the AR-15s? If so sell me some ammo. I have less than 2000 rounds.
So all a school shooter need do is cut the power...
Battery backup?
Stupid to put them under a thumbprint lock. Locks like that have fairly high false negative rates, which are exacerbated by sweat and speed, both of which would be present in an “active shooter” situation.
And cutting the power isn’t an option, since most locks like this are battery-powered. But since the guards aren’t likely to be able to open the locker quickly anyway, it’s a moot point.
These devices all have battery backup with level indicators and alarms for when the battery is growing weak.
They’re probably obliged to use *green ammo*.
Retinal scanner is the way to go... not very expensive and hard to fake... unless you force a person’s face in front of it or take someones eyeball out.
Is the copper and lead bullet replaced with an english pea?
“They’re probably obliged to use *green ammo*.”
Does “green tip” count ?
I know all that. We all do. Still, it strikes me as foolish to keep barriers between me and a tool I may need to save my life and that of others. Israel has it right. Somebody post the photo of the kindergarten teacher with her M-16.
What happens if the guards are killed before they can get to the weapons?
Guns kept in a safe are useless in a school attack.
So someone would need to cut the hands off of a resource officer first...
My neighbor who is in charge of all the IT that uses Bloomberg services tells me...that the biometric keyboards they use as mandatory devices on their equipment has to schedule service calls constantly for the units which do not let users access to their systems.
It’s either too swift a swipe, or the user’s thumb is too cold...yada. I wouldn’t trust such a system if lives were on the line. It’s only to make people *feel* as if they are doing something to prevent another Newtown.
There goes the first line of attack of Zombies!
Absolutely.
The University where I work uses a print reader for attendance. It’s a whole-print device, not a swipe, but even then it sometimes absolutely will not read my print. They take prints off two fingers just in case, but even my backup doesn’t always register properly. Apparently years of typing on keyboards somehow wears down fingerprints, according to one fingerprint tech I spoke with once.
I believe this is a good idea, as long as the officer can actually run the thing effectively. We’ve seen SO MANY examples of LEOs not being able to hit the broad side of a barn.
Having said that, if an able-bodied person can’t hit anything with an AR, they just suck in ways I can’t begin to describe.
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