Halos Force Releases Mobile Application Displaying Location of Individuals with Concealed Handguns.
Jackson, WY –-(Ammoland.com)- Halos, a mobile application that allows citizens with concealed handgun permits or are legally entitled to carry a concealed weapon in their state of residence to anonymously and approximately represent themselves on a mobile device, has launched.
Designed and produced by Halos Force LLC, users join the Halos community and elect to be represented in several different ways on a heat map, revealing areas of high and low concentrations of concealed carry permit holders in the immediate vicinity of its users, in real time.
Halos Founder Dan Cook said, “With Halos, one can now post a giant warning sign for those contemplating violence. Halos’ maps illustrate not only where the good guys are (or are not) but how many are present. We believe that this will create a ‘halo’ effect of safety for our users and deter criminals where there are high concentrations of gun-carrying citizens.”
While the number of concealed carry permits across the U.S. has more than tripled since 2007 to nearly 14 million in 2016, citizens who carry concealed handguns provide little discernable deterrence to violent crime. This fundamentally changes with Halos.
Carry permit holders are accustomed to carrying concealed, so Halos members have several options and tools to manage the degree of their visibility to others and protect their identity (see Halos map). The degree to which a member chooses to obscure their identity directly correlates with both the safety of an area as communicated to other users and Halos’ deterrent value.
Leveraging the premise that there is safety in armed numbers, a virtually connected group of handgun carrying citizens can collectively telegraph to the criminally inclined that they are entering an armed area and potentially prevent crime before it even begins. This changes the dynamic of concealed carry from that of self-defense to both self-defense and deterrence.
Halos membership is currently restricted to those who possess a state issued concealed carry permit or individuals who reside in a Constitutional carry state.
Halos is available on the iTunes store today, and an Android version will be released soon.
Membership is free for the first 100 people in each state, after that members will pay $1.99/year. In the near future, Halos will offer a view-only version to the general public for an annual fee as well.
About Halos Force LLC
Halos Force is a Jackson, Wyoming-based limited liability corporation founded in 2016 for the purpose of creating mobile applications that are designed to give US citizens the tools to deter crime and make informed decisions on what are perceived to be safe areas. https://halosforce.com
The concept intrigues me. As stated, it is a way for CCW’s to see other CCW’s. If the hide feature works, have no problem with it. Gov. already knows who the CC holders are. Al be it, their use of their own data is at times hilarious. Frankly, I’d like to know who other CCW are in the area. Voluntarily of course. Initially I had a ‘red light’ go off when I read about this app. As time’s gone by, am warming to it. Same concept as ‘Waze’. Most police hate it, but they use it.
This would enable government officials to confiscate guns from people that they know are armed in broad daylight emboldened by the belief that law abiding citizens will not gun down the police in broad daylight for all to see.
Will this company get sued by a victim if it is revealed that a criminal targeted the location because the app indicated that no armed people were present in the location?
Also will a criminal sue the company if the app tells them that no armed carriers are present only to be shot by an unregistered carrier?
Wow, Ammo land, is this ’email collection bait’?? Well, you sure got a reaction, and from me a fake email. And a mental note, not to bother clicking on anything from you in the future. Even if you think it’s a bad idea, you just gave them lots of free clicks. At least I hope you didn’t take $$$ to publish this crap. But maybe that’s your business model. [sigh]
Millennials and other gadget people will love this. How stupid…
why would someone want to be tracked like that
Bad brain fart, really bad.
As a network engineer I live on the cutting edge, always looking for cool new gear, but stuff like this just makes me cringe and want to go “off the grid”. Why in the world would anyone consent to be tracked, anonymously or otherwise? Think of the legal aspects and security issues of adding ourself to yet another online database, and one that tracks concealed carry holders at that. This could be used against you in so many nefarious ways …
Why not just wear a flashing LED body light that screams “GUN!” Nothing catches the eye quite like flashing LEDs on a “GUN” shaped blinkie. I hear you can get a flashing revolver gun that not only flashes, but makes shooting and reloading sounds! Get yours today!!!
I can see criminals using this app before committing a crime. NOT. it is a clever way of fooling people to place themselves in a data base. Not that such data bases already exist in the form of CCW permits.