Following the death of a 12-year-old boy, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fortress Safe are issuing a recall for more than 60,000 biometric safes sold in the United States.

This is because the biometric lock on the gun safes can be opened by unauthorized users, posing a serious injury hazard and risk of death.

According to the CPSC, while the consumer can code the metric reader to a specific finger print, the safe remains in the default to open mode, which can allow unauthorized users, including children, to access the safe to remove hazardous contents, including firearms. 

At least one child died from an incident involving the safe, where the accessed it and took the gun that was locked inside - leading to their death.

The family of that child is suing the company.

There have been 39 other incidents where customers say they can access the safe with an unpaired finger print.

The recalled safes were sold at Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Scheel’s, Sportsman’s Guide, Optics Planet, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Gander, Rural King, Lowe’s and other stores nationwide and online at Amazon and Ebay from 2019 through October of this year.

In total, nine safes have been recalled, including Cabela’s 4 Gun Safe with Biometric Lock, Cabela’s Biometric Personal Safe and the Fortress Portable Safe with Biometric Lock.

Consumers should immediately stop using the biometric feature, remove the batteries from the safe, and only use the key for the recalled safes being used to store firearms.

Contact Fortress Safes to receive instructions on disabling the biometric feature and to receive a free replacement safe. 

For the full list of product numbers and more images of the affected safe, click here.