Chiappa Adding RFID Chips To Their Guns

[Waitone]

The move to RFID for inventory control is being driven by Walmart and to a lesser extent the DoD. 

[KD5NRH]

You have to have a knowledge of the unique RFID codes in the Walmart store database.

Each unique product on the shelf with an RFID is individually track-able.  Without knowing the RFID code for a product, you cannot make a "false positive" event happen with a RFID of your own.

Considering how often they fail to deactivate items, it's not exactly rocket science to get a couple of tag IDs.

[GigaBuist]

The president of MKS, who sent out the press release about the RFID thing everybody got up in arms about, has responded:

http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/response-from-mks-supply/

The closing paragraph pretty much sums it up for me:

I am hoping that our ACTIONS of the past and future will show through and one comment that was supposed to produce a chuckle (unfortunately made us look like Jackasses) won’t forever hurt the way we are viewed. I guess I should have just re-stated that the glued in easy to find Barcode chip can be easily removed and left it at that.

[AJ Dual]

NO! He's got Lon Horiuchi in his basement! They're plotting against us!

[TechMan]

The president of MKS, who sent out the press release about the RFID thing everybody got up in arms about, has responded:

http://cursesfoiledagain2.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/response-from-mks-supply/

The closing paragraph pretty much sums it up for me:

If they would have just said that in the first place, it wouldn't have caused such a stir.

[GigaBuist]

If they would have just said that in the first place, it wouldn't have caused such a stir.

I know that, you know that, and even the guy that wrote the press release knows that.  He tried to make a joke, assuming we'd all get it, it bombed, and they've issued a proper mea culpa response when the controversy hit his inbox.

Way better than how HS Precision handled their Lon Horiuchi endorsement SNAFU.  They just doubled down on teh stoopid when that went down.

[TechMan]

I know that, you know that, and even the guy that wrote the press release knows that.  He tried to make a joke, assuming we'd all get it, it bombed, and they've issued a proper mea culpa response when the controversy hit his inbox.

Way better than how HS Precision handled their Lon Horiuchi endorsement SNAFU.  They just doubled down on teh stoopid when that went down.

Because of the owner's response and owning up to it, I would also put myself in the category of "if I am interested in their products, I would consider buying."  I am a little late to the party, re: HS Precision, if somebody could give me a brief synopsis it would be greatly appreciated.  I know about Lon Horiuchi from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi), but what did HS Precision do with their endorsement?

[AJ Dual]

Because of the owner's response and owning up to it, I would also put myself in the category of "if I am interested in their products, I would consider buying."  I am a little late to the party, re: HS Precision, if somebody could give me a brief synopsis it would be greatly appreciated.  I know about Lon Horiuchi from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi), but what did HS Precision do with their endorsement?

Posted Lon's endorsement on their website on official .gov letterhead and when people complained, alternately ignored them, or told them to FOAD.