60,000 gun safes recalled after shooting death

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has introduced a recall of greater than 60,000 biometric gun safes as a result of a programming characteristic that “can allow unauthorized access to the safes.”

At least one particular person has died, consistent with the CPSC.

The CPSC mentioned there were 39 incidents of customers reporting that their safes were accessed through unauthorized fingerprints.

“Consumers can believe they have properly programmed the biometric feature when in fact the safe remains in the default to open mode, which can allow unauthorized users, including children, to access the safe to remove hazardous contents, including firearms,” the CPSC mentioned in a statement.

CPSC mentioned shoppers will have to instantly forestall the usage of the biometric characteristic, take away batteries from the secure and simplest use the important thing for the recalled safes.

Fortress Safe, the corporate in the back of the biometric gun safes, introduced a recall “due to serious injury hazard and risk of death” and famous one death have been reported.

Fortress Safe mentioned the safes will also be opened through “unauthorized users, posing a serious injury hazard and risk of death.”

“The recalled gun safes are portable lock boxes, personal safes, pistol vaults and gun cabinets with brand names Fortress, Cabela’s, Gettysburg and Legend Range & Field,” Fortress Safe mentioned.

Model numbers of safes integrated within the recall are to be had on Fortress Safe’s website.

“The recalled safes were sold at Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Scheel’s, Sportsman’s Guide, Optics Planet, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Gander, Rural King, Lowe’s and other stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com and Ebay.com from January 2019 through October 2023 for between $44 and $290,” the CPSC mentioned in a remark.