I wonder if wrapping around a plastic/rubber dummy knife or gun would work. Also just randomly having patches of steel wool in various locations would confuse enough to trigger an investigation. I know a small fold out umbrella in the pocket of my hoodie was enough to trigger something like this.

“Wonder how steel wool lining would play out.”

I suspect it would work long enough for them to re-program it to trigger on large, indistinct blobs of reflective materiel.

Your idea is interesting, I just may test in a few weeks on those very scanners in downtown Orlando…

Wonder how steel wool lining would play out.

“The firearm being worn in the picture was not concealed. That is why it was recognized,”

not really.

Basically (in plain english to avoid the technical explanation); It detects metal – then when it does it uses ‘AI’ to figure the ‘boundary of the metal’ from its internal arrays of ‘sensors that take a sort of snap shot of the detected metal’, from that the ‘AI’ derives a generalized ‘shape picture’ then matches that ‘shape picture’ to a ‘database’ to determine if its a gun (or knife) or not.

“Pretty sure it’s just a metal detector with a brain that can differentiate thickness, determine shapes and possibly alloy so it won’t hit on keys or coins but rather guns and knives.”

Partially correct. Basically (in plain english to avoid the technical explaination); It detects metal – then when it does it uses ‘AI’ to figure the ‘boundary of the metal’ from its internal arrays of ‘sensors that take a sort of snap shot of the detected metal’, from that the ‘AI’ derives a generalized ‘shape picture’ then matches that ‘shape picture’ to a ‘database’ to determine if its a gun (or knife) or not.

Most of the way there in NYC. My way is spread out enough that the licence plate reader locations are mostly known and the stingrays are easy to find if you know how to look.

“Though I’m sure realtime plate and face scanning at every intersection will soon be checking license, reg, insurance, taxes, warrants, grocery lists, phone call history, email inbox and your most recent bowel movement. For your safety of course. Government only wants to live you and care for you.”

The murder rate today is less than one-half what it was in 1990, nation-wide. I’m convinced the biggest reason for that is that it’s a whole lot harder today to literally get away with murder. Think about it, with cameras *everywhere* and traceable ‘digital fingerprints’, it’s nearly impossible today to sneak out of the house late one night, cap some asshole who desperately needs it, and get away with it…

Pretty sure it’s just a metal detector with a brain that can differentiate thickness, determine shapes and possibly alloy so it won’t hit on keys or coins but rather guns and knives.

You wouldn’t be carrying anyplace with a standard detector anyway so the issue isn’t some fancy scifi super tech but that more places are going to use metal detectors at more entrances.

I’d like to see cops stopping everyone detected carrying to check legality because if simply carrying can justify a stop then cops should be pulling over EVERY car to make sure the driver is in compliance. Though I’m sure realtime plate and face scanning at every intersection will soon be checking license, reg, insurance, taxes, warrants, grocery lists, phone call history, email inbox and your most recent bowel movement. For your safety of course. Government only wants to live you and care for you.