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A place to post product recalls. Recalls can be national or local, even just one store down the street. Nor are they limited to one country, if a product is declared unsafe by the government or the maker, share it here.

Title should reflect what's being recalled, body should say where and/or have a link to the announcement.

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More Than 60,000 Gun Safes Recalled After Parents Of 12-Year-Old Who Died Sue (www.huffpost.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The device defaults to unsafe. For a device designed to protect lives, that's incredibly irresponsible.

According to the recall:

There have been 39 incidents of consumers reporting that their safes have been accessed by unpaired fingerprints.

Meaning the device is janky enough that at least 39 other people have also had the same problem.

Additionally

the parents did not operate the safe according to instructions

The article doesn't state that. It's possible that the parents followed the instructions or thought they followed the instructions, but the device failed to provide sufficient feedback that it was in kill-your-kids mode.