Patent ID: 8850944

Claim:
An automatic gun safety device installed on a gun, comprising: a positioning device for receiving signals from external devices of a plurality of positioning systems and determining a geographic position of the gun based on such signals, wherein the positioning device is capable of determining the geographic position of the gun using any one of a plurality of different positioning technologies and automatically selects one of the plurality of different positioning technologies based on external conditions; a data processing device coupled to the positioning device, the data processing device storing position information regarding geographic positions of a plurality of registered areas, the data processing device comparing the position of the gun determined by the positioning device with stored position information of the registered areas to determine whether the gun is located within any one of the registered areas, the data processing device generating a disable signal when the gun is determined to be located within any one of the registered areas; and a safety seizer coupled to the data processing device to receive the disable signal, operable to disable the gun to prevent it from discharging in response to receiving the disable signal.