Futuristic weapons detection tech would be right at home on ‘24’

The now-defunct US TV show “24” recounted the journey of Jack Bauer, an agent for the Counter Terrorist Unit, or CTU, the fictional counterpart of the Department of Homeland Security. Each episode found Jack (played by Kiefer Sutherland) battling bad guys while transmitting data back to headquarters. Now, a new security technology company is making Jack Bauer’s world a reality.

Patriot One Technologies Inc. (OTCQB: PTOTF) makes weapons detection equipment, the real-world counterpart of CTU’s elaborate command and communications setup. But unlike its television twin, which takes up an entire room, this groundbreaking system is small enough to install almost anywhere — on the wall, on ceilings and many other locations.

Future iterations of the company’s weapons detection system may in fact even fit behind the grill of a police car, potentially giving law enforcement an edge that Jack Bauer could only dream of. Police could have the ability to scan individuals and areas, knowing in advance what they’re dealing with in terms of guns, knives, explosive devices or any other weapon that provides a signature to Patriot One’s system.

And therein lies the key

Individuals and groups who are being scanned don’t even know they’re being scanned! They don’t have to walk through any obvious structure. They only need to pass by, or be passed by, with one of the company’s groundbreaking NForce weapons detection devices, for the system to determine exactly what they are carrying. There’s nothing like it currently available to law enforcement.

According to a story published in The Guardian last year, more than 1,000 mass shootings were reported in a 1,260-day period in 2016 in America. The odds of becoming an innocent victim to a random shooter were going up steadily. Law enforcement agencies are screaming for a solution, and Patriot One’s weapons detection system is exactly the solution they need.

Personal safety in public venues

On a midsummer July night in 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, Batman fans were getting set to enjoy a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” one of the last films that starred Heath Ledger. But unbeknownst to the gathered crowd, James Holmes, a 24-year-old university drop-out with severe mental health issues, was about to snap.

He left the theatre 30 minutes after the movie started, and then returned wearing a ballistic helmet, gas mask, bullet-resistant leggings and a protective vest. He set off two tear gas canisters and then opened fire on the audience with a 12-gauge Remington Model 870™ Express synthetic tactical shotgun, a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 semiautomatic tactical rifle and a Glock 22.40 calibre handgun. After firing a total of 76 rounds, 12 people lost their lives, and 70 people were wounded.

Would Patriot One’s NForce weapons detection system have prevented James Holmes from acting?

It’s impossible to say. But imagine if the outside of the building had been equipped with the system, and security equipment was available to automatically lock the doors through which James Holmes entered that night. The whole tragedy might have been averted.

Since that horrible summer night, when young love was snuffed out alongside children and the elderly, this scenario has repeated itself with a multitude of variations on an almost daily basis. And statistics demonstrate in no uncertain terms that the risk of accidental death as the result of a random act of gun violence in American is going through the roof.

Americans will not tolerate restrictions against owning firearms, but everybody agrees — there is a time and a place where such weapons are appropriate, and where they are not. Public venues where entertainment and sporting events are underway are no place to be while packing an assault rifle.

With Patriot One’s revolutionary weapons detection system, securing public venues from deranged individuals with malicious intent emerges from the realm of science fiction into reality, to the benefit of all.

NForce system adoption will be driven by public venue operators

After Holmes was sentenced to 12 life sentences, one life term for each person he killed, plus 3,318 years in prison for the attempted murders of those he wounded and for rigging his apartment with explosives, another trial got under way.

In that trial, Cinemark USA Inc., the owner of the Century 16 Theatre where James Holmes opened fire, was sued by the families of victims and survivors who alleged the theatre operator was negligent in that it failed to provide adequate security for its customers. Cinemark was found not guilty in the civil trial, but it cost the company more than US$700,000 (AU$909,900) to defend itself.

With the availability of Patriot One’s NForce weapons detection system approaching a reality, how likely is it that theatre operators like Cinemark won’t opt to install a weapons detection system to prevent these types of events in the future? Never mind the damage to Cinemark’s reputation that was the target of a “Boycott Cinemark Theatres” movement after the company sought to recover those costs from victims’ families who originated the suit.

There’s every reason for public venue operators to want Patriot One Technologies Inc . (OTCMKTS: PTOTF, TSX.V: PAT, FRA: 0PL) system installed on their properties. Failing to do so, at some point in the future, might become a case for negligence.

Or, as Jack Bauer says, “You can add that to your list of regrets.”