Thread: Mark your guns?

Originally Posted by canross

I was thinking about this thread a bit more - an RFID chip in the stock would be a neat trick. They are the little chips in shop clothing, books, and your credit and eftpos cards that are powered by a radio signal to alert security systems or activate paywave at the cashier. They're dirt cheap, can be scanned from a distance, and never really stop working if protected (IE encased in resin etc).

It would take a little bit of determination on behalf of the owner to do (IE place the chips in the stock, buy a $20 scanner, document the chip ID against the firearm, keep a record) but it would be an invisible but easily checked method of cataloging firearms. Probably would be most effective because thieves probably wouldn't look for it, and if you knew to scan for it, is easily detected without having to disassemble the gun or use complicated or time consuming recovery techniques.

Our firm in Australia was considering this for hydraulic hoses on our U/G machinery as part of an industry guideline to manage them to prevent burst injuries.
The chips were very cheap-we didn't do it but think it was down to logistics and an industry downturn.
this would only really work if crims didn't know we were doing it or it was in such a place they couldn't se it remove it.
On a conspiracy theory note I also don't like it as then official govt departments could use it to sneak in firearms tracking/registration.
make it mandatory to have one on new firearms etc. I just don't trust them enough for that.

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Our firm in Australia was considering this for hydraulic hoses on our U/G machinery as part of an industry guideline to manage them to prevent burst injuries.
The chips were very cheap-we didn't do it but think it was down to logistics and an industry downturn.
this would only really work if crims didn't know we were doing it or it was in such a place they couldn't se it remove it.
On a conspiracy theory note I also don't like it as then official govt departments could use it to sneak in firearms tracking/registration.
make it mandatory to have one on new firearms etc. I just don't trust them enough for that.

I was going to suggest "The Tile"for the task until you made this comment, then I thought Hell no!!!
https://www.thetileapp.com/?utm_camp...SAAEgIcUfD_BwE

I am not sure I want anyone to have a shopping list of what people own, but I sure as hell dont want them to know specific locations...