BBRKIN Recalls 9,100 Gun Safes: How to Protect Yourself

The second biometric safe recall from BBRKIN, and four times the size of the first

On July 9, 2026, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that BBRKIN is recalling 9,100 biometric gun safes. The reason is as serious as a safe recall gets. In the CPSC's own words, "the biometric lock on the gun safes can be opened by unauthorized users, posing a serious injury hazard and risk of death."

If the name sounds familiar, it should. In February 2024, BBRKIN recalled over 2,000 safes of a different biometric model, after a report that a six year old boy had opened one. We covered that recall at the time. This new biometric gun safe recall comes from the same company, the same importer and the same Amazon storefront, and it is over four times the size.

What Is Being Recalled

The recall covers BBRKIN and MouTec biometric gun safes with model number QHXP029B. They are tall gray steel safes, about 14 by 12 by 57 inches, with one shelf and room for about five long guns. The brand name, either "MouTec" or "BBRKIN", is on the upper right corner of the front, and the serial number is on a label on the lower right corner of the front.

What Owners Should Do Right Now

If you own one of these safes, the CPSC says:

1. Stop using the fingerprint feature immediately.
2. Take the batteries out of the safe.
3. Use only the key when storing guns.
4. Check your serial number against the range in the table above. It is on the label at the lower right corner of the front of the safe.

Removing the batteries means nobody can use the fingerprint sensor, and it switches the mechanism off. That turns the safe into just a steel box with key access. It removes one vulnerability, along with the quick access you bought it for, and leaves the safe only as secure as wherever the key is kept and the quality of the lock. In a house with children, the key's hiding place is the only thing standing between a curious hand and what is inside. That is the trouble with safes built around cheap fingerprint readers: when the reader fails, you hear about it from a recall notice, not from the safe.

Why Biometric Recalls Keep Happening

This is not a one off. Since 2005, the CPSC has announced 14 recalls of safes, gun boxes and vaults that could be opened by the wrong people, and the seven biometric ones have all come since October 2023. With this latest biometric gun safe recall, that is over 362,000 safes, over 11,000 of them from BBRKIN alone. We are sorry for our competitors, but unfortunately we also fear that some safes sold today are not actually secure. Please protect yourself and the people you live with, and make sure your safe is secure and good quality.

The CPSC says the lock "can be opened by unauthorized users". BBRKIN's own recall notice explains how. The fingerprint reader has what BBRKIN calls a "Default to Open" setting, which "allows unpaired fingerprints to open the safe until a fingerprint is programmed, allowing unauthorized persons, including children, to access hazardous contents". Until an owner enrolls a fingerprint, any finger opens it.

A fingerprint lock has two jobs: to open for you, quickly, every time, and to refuse everyone else, every time. Refusing everyone else is the job that matters, and it is the one that fails quietly, because a lock that opens for the wrong person does not announce it.

If you are shopping for any biometric safe, from anyone, these are the questions worth asking before you buy:

• How good is the fingerprint sensor? Ask for the number, not the adjective. The FBI's fingerprint imaging standard sets a minimum of 500 DPI. We go deeper on this in Do You Need a Biometric Safe?
• What happens after repeated failed attempts? A safe that lets someone keep trying is inviting them to. And with cheaper, lower quality fingerprint readers, it may eventually unlock for them. That's a huge gap in security. Don't let that be you.
• Will you know if someone opens it? There is a 99% chance you won't know. Your safe will not keep a record at all, so the first sign of a problem is something missing, maybe along with your valuables and your peace of mind.
• What if the safe has a bug or a fingerprint issue? With 99.999% of safes sold today, your only solution is a recall, and hoping the safe company will help you. With The Space Safe, software updates fix bugs and issues and add new features after you own it.
• Can it be opened from a phone? If you can open it with your phone, so can anyone who gets into your phone or your account. That's a vulnerability.

How The Space Safe Answers Those Questions

Don't let this happen to you. Protect yourself with The Space Safe. We built it around exactly those questions, so here are the answers, one for one.

The sensor. A 508 DPI, 192 by 192 capacitive fingerprint sensor, above the FBI's 500 DPI imaging standard, with 360 degree detection so it reads your finger at any angle.

Only the fingers you enrolled. There is no "Default to Open" on The Space Safe. It opens only to enrolled fingerprints, even brand new before setup, and we have tested exactly that, intensely. A fingerprint lock that opens for the wrong finger has failed at the one job that matters.

Failed attempts. After eight failed fingerprint attempts, or three wrong PINs, the safe locks itself down. It comes out of lockdown with the physical key, or from The Space App.

Knowing who opened it. The Space App's Activity Log tracks every time the safe is accessed, successfully or unsuccessfully, and by whom. Every fingerprint belongs to a named person, with up to four users and up to five fingerprints each, and only an administrator can suspend someone. Once suspended, that person's correct PIN stops working. Interior and exterior cameras, with night vision on the outside, let you request a photo from the app.

Opening from a phone. It cannot be done. There is no remote unlock on The Space Safe, and that is deliberate. Many smart safes offer one. We decided a safe full of valuables should only ever open to someone standing in front of it.

And if the battery ever runs completely flat, the physical key still opens it.

Best of all, a bug does not mean a recall. If we ever find one in The Space Safe, we fix it with an over the air update, not a part in the mail. Every update is verified against a dedicated signing key, and our changelog is public.

The Bottom Line

If you own a BBRKIN or MouTec gun safe, check the model and the serial number. If yours is model QHXP029B in the range above, stop using your fingerprint reader today, take the batteries out and use the key. Then, instead of fitting a repair kit, we recommend replacing it with something more secure.

If you are shopping for a biometric gun safe, the lesson of this biometric gun safe recall is not that fingerprint locks are a bad idea. It is that the fingerprint reader, the software behind it and what happens when it fails are the whole product, and they deserve the same scrutiny as the steel. You can read more about how SPACE approaches all of it on our site.

It matters that these recalls keep coming. Each describes the same moment: a safe bought to stay shut opens for someone it should not. In a house with children, that can be a curious six year old, and inside is a gun. It has already happened. When Fortress recalled 61,000 biometric gun safes in 2023, the CPSC said it was aware of a lawsuit alleging that a 12 year old boy died from a gun obtained from one of them. A lock that fails quietly is worse than no lock, because everyone in the house believes the gun is locked away.

In 2024, 44,447 people in the United States died from gun injuries, over 120 every day. In 2022, guns were the leading cause of death for American children and teens.

Sources: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, recall 26-607, July 9, 2026, and the CDC's injury statistics and gun injury facts.

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