Right now the most pliable option to safeguard a your guns is a gun safe. There are different types available made especially to keep at various places at home, office or in your car.Just like traditional safes, gun safes are used to prevent the theft and unauthorized access of one’s valuables (in our case, guns).
Some of the firearms safe are coming with biometrics.These safes are sometimes known as Fingerprint Gun Safes, since they need your fingerprint to open. You can program this to open only with your fingerprint, or someone else’s, such as the spouse etc.These Gun safes can usually store a few number of fingerprints.But these safe are limited as far as safety goes as the real biometric technology is not available in this price range at this time.
Other possible future implementation of biometrics is being projected with two possible technologies,both funded by NIJ.But none of them have reached a level of discrimination required by the law enforcements.One is owned by Smith and wesson which uses skin spectroscopy called the lightprint by lumidigm.The discovery made by researchers was that human skin of an individual can act as his fingerprints. The thickness of the skin and the presence of the unique characteristics of each individual, as well as the ease of reading this information simply by radio graphic testing of the skin by the laser beam in a fraction of a second can be used in the futur in the field of electronic identification of user of the weapon. As in the devices with the fingerprint reader, a pistol and a rifle will be equipped with a small device that unlocks the weapons only for the owner. The advantage of this technology compared to fingerprinting –is no need to process the image. Measured only by the wavelength of light reflected skin, which reduces power consumption and size of the device. Other technology is the one designed by NJIT which uses hand grip pressure to identify the user.This technology have an advantage that it can be used even when the skin is wet or wearing hand gloves