CPSC Urges Consumers to Disable Biometric Sensors on Owsoo and Cacagoo Gun Safes

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued an urgent warning for consumers to immediately stop using and disable the biometric feature on Owsoo and Cacagoo-branded biometric gun safes.

According to the CPSC, these safes – sold on Amazon.com and Walmart.com – pose a serious risk of injury or death as they can open to any fingerprint without the owner’s knowledge, allowing unauthorized access to firearms, including by children.

The CPSC has received six reports of these safes being accessed with unauthorized fingerprints. Consumers who own these safes are advised to remove the batteries that power the biometric feature, disable the biometric feature by puncturing the biometric reader, and use only the keys to lock and access the safe’s contents.

This is just the latest in a series of recalls of gun safes over the past several months. In June of this year, SA Consumer Products recalled 133,370 gun safes, including the Sanctuary Quick Access Biometric Home Safe and the Sports Afield Home Defense 4-Gun Biometric Safe, due to unreliable biometric locks that pose serious safety risks. At that time, the CPSC reported 77 instances of unauthorized access but no injuries.

That recall followed an earlier CPSC crackdown on biometric gun safes, prompted by a tragic incident in which a faulty biometric lock on a Fortress Safe led to a child’s death.

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August 2, 2024 – by Tony Bitzionis