Leveraging lockers: The future of weapons storage is here

Regardless of how large or small an armory is, it’s critically important to safely store weapons and ensure that only authorized officers have access to them.

It’s of equal importance that administrators have clear, real-time insight into which officers have a weapon on their person to maintain both a proper inventory and a working audit report of usage. Among the solutions that achieve these objectives—which are increasing in adoption among departments across the United States—are intelligent weapons lockers.

Similar to cabinets and lockers that manage keys and shared devices, intelligent weapons lockers are a physical security solution that can be customized to include individual storage compartments for both sidearms and long guns. There are clear advantages to storing weapons in this way, such as restricting access to a single user for a particular weapon, keeping all weapons in a centralized or decentralized location, and maintaining a real-time audit trail of where each weapon is at any time.