More than 60,000 biometric portable gun safes are being recalled after a 12-year-old boy died from a firearm taken from one of the safes, CBS News reports. Fortress Safe and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Thursday that various models of biometric gun...
More than 60,000 biometric portable gun safes are being recalled after a 12-year-old boy died from a firearm taken from one of the safes, CBS News reports.
CPSC cites a recent lawsuit that alleges a 12-year-old boy died from a firearm that was obtained from one of the safes being recalled, and that at least 39 incidents have been reported by consumers of the safes being accessed using fingerprints that weren’t paired with the system. The model numbers for the safes being recalled include 11B20, 44B10, 44B10L, 44B20, 55B20, 55B30, 55B30G, 4BGGBP, and 55B30BP.
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