Magnet Firearm Holders Safety

[kelcarry]

For my recent full size semi, I purchased a set of magnet bars to hold my firearm at what I consider to be an opportune location within my home during daylight hours. Secure, hidden and easily accessible, it does everything I want it to do (please-no what ifs and I should be carrying the firearm on my person while in my home). There is one problem I just noticed for the first time that I want to share with the forum if any of you have or thought of getting these magnets, and with the supplier/mfg or the magnets. When you remove the semi from the magnets and do this while holding the semi horizontal and close to the magnets, as you bring the gun up to your body, the magnets can produce enough force to actually have the safety lever move from "safe" to "fire". If you keep the semi with a cartridge in the chamber, you have now retrieved the semi in a dangerous mode w/o even realizing it, unless you are paying attention to the safety lever position or the red dot that reveals that the gun is in firing mode. Just word of warning that I intend to pass along to the supplier/mfg and suggest they include a small note indicating this potential safety problem.

 

[HueMan]

What if your only safety is keeping your booger hook off the bang switch (which is the only safety you need)? What then?

 

[AlfSauve]

Two thoughts:

First: I take apart old disk drives (so no one can steal the data) and use the very strong magnets inside for this purpose. They work wonderfully, are free and even have holes for screws so they can be mounted conveniently.

Second: Strong magnets, as was proven in 2001, found for example in MRI machines can cause a gun to fire by forcefully overriding every built in safety, including a trigger block, grip safety and safety lever. So it always pays to be careful of magnetic forces around any metallic equipment.

Added thought: Safety lever? Safety Lever? Only archaic anachronisms have those.

 

[CPW1265]

Just food for thought : with what is said above have you thought of using a Blackhawk Serpa holster with the male/female quick disconnect attachment and having it mounted the same way and place as you do now? It seems safer. Just putting it out there

 

[Treo]

Two thoughts:

Second: Strong magnets, as was proven in 2001, found for example in MRI machines can cause a gun to fire by forcefully overriding every built in safety, including a trigger block, grip safety and safety lever. So it always pays to be careful of magnetic forces around any metallic equipment.

Off topic but are you saying that a magnet is strong enough to pull the trigger of a gun?

 

[AlfSauve]

MRI Magnets and firearms

Off topic but are you saying that a magnet is strong enough to pull the trigger of a gun?

Actually, MRI machines are even stronger than that. Basically so strong enough to override most safeties and operate most any mechanism. Assuming the trigger is steel, yes it's quite possible.

Happened when a LEO misunderstood an MRI technician's directions and took a 1911 into an MRI room. The magnet jerk the gun out of his hand/holster, from three feet away, where it adhered it to the inside of the MRI machine. The gun fired in the process.

Spontaneous Discharge of a Firearm in an MR Imaging Environment

 

[kelcarry]

I wa able to replicate the problem. The strong pull of the magnets is working to keep the semi close to them as I grip the gun to remove it from the magnets. It is easy to brush the middle of the gun against the rubber covering of the magnets, which causes the brushing motion to move the safety from safe to fire. I found this very easy to do without even a hint that such a thing was happening; since this could be a potential problem, a note alerting buyers to the fact that the pull of the magnets can exacerbate a brushing of the gun against the magnet covering, IMO, would not be a bad idea. I have alerted Amazon to this and hopefully they will contact supplier/mfgr. It is definitely my fault but it happened so innocently and easily that it could happen enough times that somewhere, somehow, a trigger will get pulled with a round in the chamber.

 

[titaniumman]

Because I was a mechanic for so long, I needed to get a CT done of my head before an MRI could be done. This is to check for possible metal shavings in my eyes that went undetected...I was told that an MRI would "RIP" the metal from my eyes causing severe damage if there were any in there....OUCH! Possibly causing blindness! Luckily I tested neg....