Patent ID: 6421944
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: F41A

Abstract:
A security apparatus for a firearm adapted to fire a non-impact ammunition cartridge, said firearm including a trigger assembly manually actuated by a trigger member and an integrated backstrap module which houses an electronic firing apparatus for generating a firing-signal, said security apparatus comprising:an input means for accepting and storing a plurality of parameter signals indicative of a physical state of said firearm; a mode setting means for determining and selectively placing said firearm in one of an awake mode, a sleep mode and an authorized mode; and an enabling means for evaluating said plurality of said parameter signals, thereby permitting said firing apparatus to generate and communicate said firing signal to said ammunition cartridge in response to an actuation of said trigger member only when each of said plurality of parameter signals indicate that said firearm is prepared to fire and said mode setting means determines that said firearm is in said authorized mode.