Good day all. Liberty Safe is a well known manufacturer of gun safes. It has, or had, a reputation as a well made and solid safe that will protect your firearms. Recently, Liberty Safe destroyed that valuable reputation and is now getting the Bud Light treatment.
What happened is twofold. The FBI, acting in their role as the Democrat’s Gestapo, sent dozens of agents to arrest someone in regards to the January 6th protests. That is another story altogether. However, the stormtroopers got a warrant to search this person’s home. (Why, I have no idea other then to terrorize people) One of the things the person had was a liberty gun safe.
The problem for the FBI was that they couldn’t get into it. So they called Liberty Safe and asked for the back door code. This is where things get interesting and show that the Liberty Safe company needs to change their name. Instead of demanding a subpoena or warrant, the management just handed over the back door to the FBI. Here are some of the details from Fox Business News:
Popular gun safe company Liberty Safe is facing intense backlash after providing the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the password to a customer’s safe at the law enforcement agency’s request, and conservative influencers are now calling for boycotting the brand.
Outrage against the Utah-based safe manufacturer began Monday after conservative commentators Keith and Kevin Hodge, known as the Hodge Twins, posted the revelation on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Last week, a friend of ours was raided by the feds over J6, his name is Nathan Hughes and he’s from Fayetteville, Arkansas,” the post reads, which notes in the report that “The feds called the manufacturer of his Liberty Gun Safe and got the passcode to get into it too. All for protesting at the Capitol over 2 1/2 years ago.”
Nathan Hughes himself confirmed the story the next day, saying in a video posted on X that Liberty Safe gave the FBI “a master code to get into my gun safe.” He added, “Pretty crazy, didn’t know safe companies would do that, so I feel like a lot of our gun safes are not actually safe.”
Nope, they aren’t. The safe isn’t specified, however I suspect it was one with an electronic combination. Basically a key pad and/or a fingerprint reader. They have a back door passcode in case someone loses their combination. From what I understand, there is no way for the owner to change that admin code. I also don’t know if it was for that specific safe, or if that code is used for all safes of that model, or worse, for all the safes sold by Liberty Safe. As for Liberty, they’re trying to dig themselves out of the hole they’re in.
Liberty Safe admitted in a statement Tuesday that it gave the FBI the access code to the safe of an individual for whom the FBI had a warrant to search their property after receiving the agency’s request on Aug. 30.
“Liberty Safe is devoted to protecting the personal property and 2nd amendment rights of our customers and has repeatedly denied requests for access codes without a warrant in the past,” the statement reads. “We do not give out combinations without proper legal documentation being provided by authorities.”
Except that you didn’t receive proper legal documentation. The warrant was for the victim of the FBI and Garland DoJ’s witch hunt. When they called Liberty Safe, you should have asked for a subpoena. Instead it was “Sure! No problem! Here you go!”
The statement did not appease Liberty’s critics, who immediately began calling for boycotting the company in the same fashion as Bud Light, which has suffered substantial losses in sales after the Anheuser-Busch InBev brand partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney earlier this year in a marketing effort that caused many beer drinkers to shun it.
Bud Light is basically a dead product. The only one I know who has bought any of late is the Angry Brother InLaw and that was for a party. No one actually touched it. Now it looks like Liberty is going to see the same thing happen to them, if for different reasons.
“[A]bsent a court order, you weren’t required to give them anything,” Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, replied in response to Liberty’s initial statement. “You voluntarily gave out a combination over a warrant, per your own release, that didn’t apply to you or your property. Maybe start marketing your stuff as Bud Light storage.”
The memes were showing up on TwitterX almost as fast as the news came out that Liberty Safe had blown their own feet off as did the comments on Socialist media.
“No Safe company should ever have access to the property of their customers, let alone sell them out to the feds,” Seifert wrote on X in reaction to Liberty’s statement. “It’s an unbelievable breach of privacy. Give them the Bud Light treatment.”
Liberty Safe, after taking a beating a baby seal hunter green with envy, posted some changes to their policies.
Liberty’s X account continued to be bombarded with angry messages from users on Wednesday, and late that evening the company posted a three-page statement in response to the pushback and announced changes to its policies.
The company said in its statement that it “has long adhered to industry standards by maintaining a secure database of factory-set combinations” as a courtesy to customers who might need them for various reasons, but that effective immediately, existing customers may visit the website and “fill out the form to have records of their access codes expunged.”
That’s nice, but doesn’t cover the problem. First, safe owners have no way to change that default code, and second, you gave out the information in the first place without any regard to your customer’s rights. You wouldn’t be in this fix if you had demanded the FBI produce the proper legal documents compelling you to provide the information.
“We have also revised our policies around cooperation with law enforcement,” Liberty’s statement reads. “Going forward we will require a subpoena that legally compels Liberty Safe to supply access codes but can only do so if these codes still exist in our system.”
This is called locking the door after the horse has left, gone to another town, fooled around with all the local fillies, and fled the country to avoid the resultant child support payments. It’s to little and to late. If you want to correct this, you need to fire everyone involved in the decision to hand over that combination.
If it was some idiot lawyer in the legal department, he or she needs to be shown the door. As it is, I won’t be buying a safe of any sort that has an electronic keypad, or no way to change the combinations. I’m also no longer looking at Liberty Safes, at least under the current management. I suspect many other potential buyers are also thinking the same thing.
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