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To: vannrox
When I first started reading this thread, I thought it was an infomercial or a spoof. An infomercial would have been pulled by now. So this may be one of the longest running spoofs on FR next to....well never mind.
585 posted on 09/07/2002 5:57:49 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: CWRWinger
I left this thread to go bikeriding and I had a little time to think of the customers who would buy this item.
The answer is no one.
Anyone buying a trigger lock has only one thing on their mind and that is to keep it out of the hands of their relatives, young and old because trigger locks are useless against thieves.
The people who buy trigger locks are worried that someone in their family will do something stupid with their guns and that means they don't know how to teach their relatives not to do something stupid.
That leaves a group of people who want to take the easy way out and not teach their relatives so that also means that they need something familiar and easy to use and that means something with a key and lock. Something which is familiar to them. These people are not familiar with strange bullets that are single use, single application and need a special tool to remove. This group also will not use a special tool inside their firearm no more than they would attempt to do a trigger job.
They also will not use a product that will have a warning on it such as:

WARNING! USE OF THIS PRODUCT IN A SELF-DEFENSE CRISIS MAY LEAD TO INJURY OR DEATH!

I can name trigger locks, lock boxes, CAUTION, LOADED GUN sleeves, fake books, fake pictures on the wall, safes, and simply leaving the ammo in a different spot which are all better, safer and cheaper than this product. There isn't a group that can benefit from this item.
No one.
589 posted on 09/07/2002 6:32:36 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
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To: CWRWinger
Yes, the article read much like the Onion. Simply astounding the blatant "criminal" negligence of these inventions.---i quote "criminal" as I do know of a case where the inventor of safety item received a negative judgement against him as a result of a "safety" device---

It not go boom, me rest in tomb. (KMOKM dragging lower digit knuckles across keyboard)
598 posted on 09/07/2002 8:18:51 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme
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To: CWRWinger; Travis McGee; Lazamataz
An infomercial would have been pulled by now.

The amazing Ginsu Safety Knife!

641 posted on 09/07/2002 9:45:17 PM PDT by dighton
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