Patent ID: 7506468

Claim:
A monitoring system to monitor user handling of a weapon including a trigger guard with a trigger disposed therein and a trigger area defined by an exterior surface of said trigger and a plurality of interior surfaces of said trigger guard, wherein said weapon is operated in response to actuation of said trigger and said monitoring system indicates placement relative to said trigger of a user body portion for actuating said trigger, said monitoring system comprising: a sensing unit mountable to said weapon proximate said trigger to sense the presence of a user body portion for actuating said trigger within said trigger area and in a vicinity of said trigger, wherein said sensing unit includes a plurality of sensing devices disposed on at least two different ones of said surfaces defining said trigger area to detect said user body portion within said trigger area; an indicator unit including an indicator providing an indication in response to detection of said user body portion within said trigger area by said sensing unit, wherein each actuation of said indicator indicates the presence of said user body portion within said trigger area; and a control unit to generate control signals for said indicator unit to indicate the presence of said user body portion within said trigger area in accordance with said sensing of said user body portion within said trigger area by said sensing unit.