It is NOT the gun. You have a belt, jacket, shoe, wallet, hat or some other similiar item that has the metalic strip hidden or built inside of it. Search all you clothing items that you were wearing and I'm sure that you will find a tag. Look for a little metalic tag. The majority of stores use the checkpoint brand of inventory tags and they are all universal and work the same in all the stores that use them. That is why you will beep going into Target, Walmart, Sears, etc. I learned all of this working store security when I got out of high school.

OK... Ill be that guy...

Dont you know that Glocks are porcelin pistols that dont set off any detectors and cost more than you make in a month?

Ok, sorry. Had to do it, you may flame away.

Thanks for the input fellas. Ima search my clothes and everything today. Its gotta be something setting it off. I bought my glock 21 at a lawmans discount. I just hope it does not have a thingy in it. We shall see!

I've never had my carry gun set off store alarms. I don't know what it would and I really don't think it's the gun.

Go in and out with the gun on and then go to the car and take it off and re-enter the store and see what happens.

I was told that new shoes are notorious for setting the anti-theft detectors off. I guess they hide the RF tags pretty well and people don't even realize they are there.

I worked with a guy who was once a DEA agent, he said their weapons had RFID tags in them, so the agency could track what was going in and out of the main facility he worked out of.

I have had this happen to me, and i think i can about 100% isolate it to the firearm i was carrying and nothing else.

The store i worked at for years beeped at me when i started carrying a gun there. Aside from the gun (a Glock OR a 225), nothing on my person had changed: same knife, same car keys, same phone, EXACT same clothes (as in i only wore one pair of pants ever to that place), same stuff in my lunch box.

Granted, the Sensormatic was pretty tweaky and old, but i most definitely began setting it off when i started carrying to work. Not with grim regularity (since i walked in and out of the store dozens of times a shift), but probably once a shift.

(And, yes, i'm sure no one had slyly stuck a tattletape strip on me.)

I also set off an alarm at a Banana Republic store in the mall a few years back on two separate occasions that i was carrying. Can't be 100% sure on this one, though.

Oat

Check your shoes if you ever set one of the anti theft systems off, I did once and discovered it was caused by an RFID sticky on the bottom of my shoe. I seriously doubt there'd be an RFID tag in your gun, perhaps if you were military or some form of LE.

Thieves will often use magnets to defeat store door alarms, I wonder if your slide is magnetized to a degree that would set off a "magnetic field" countermeasure implemented by the stores?

I set them off going in, going out, going sideways. Many very different states. Many very different stores. Many very different places.

It's the darn alien chip. MFs did not remove it and they are not coming back until about a year from now.

what the hell is Starship?

I had the same thing happen to me at Ayers(Macys) a few years ago. When those things go off I never stop because I know I didn't steal anything so I went right out the door. Someone followed me out and asked if I had set the alarm off. I said I didn't think so unless it was my H&K .45 that I had on underneath my sweater. He nicely went back inside the store.

This happened a few times and I was starting to get pissed. I finally tracked it down to a anti-theft tag that was in one particular coat. I had purchased a Dockers coat online and the tag had never been removed. It was placed inside the coat and I never thought to look there. I never had another problem after I took that tag out.

I think I can speak with authority on this subject as year ago in the 90's I used to work for a company called Sensormatics that made those security devices. The way that some of those devices work is that the tags are made up of a certain metal, composition, length, etc. The hidden transmitter sends out a signal and when one of those tags get in range it actually vibrates a certain frequency and sets off the alarm. Sometimes you can see these different tags on boxes of cough syrups, etc. they are a very small thin metal or they may be prepackaged inside the boxes now. When you go to the cash register to pay, they swipe it over what looks like a scanner, but is actually a very strong magnet. This magnet breaks the metal or disrupts it so that it no longer vibrates at that frequency. The white or beige tags on the clothes, sometimes if you put one in your hand and Squeeze it really tight so it does not vibrate, you can actually prevent it from setting off the alarms. Back then for fun I used to cary extra tags and put them on my friend's shoe and he would set off the alarms and he would get searched, etc. and keep setting off, it was funny. Then I would show him the little sticker tag on his shoe Back to your story, something you have is matching the vibration or resonance of the tags causing it to set off the alarms. I hope this helps. God Bless

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Originally posted by sovietak474u:
I went to tanger outlet today and for some reason I kept on setting off the anti theft system. Ive carried my H&K usp 40. there and it never did it. But today I carried the glock 21 and it set off every single one! I even went to starship and it set theirs off. Does any know about these systems. And is there something about a glock that sets them off?

Can't be the glock!!!! Those things can pass through Airport metal detectors undetected for crying out loud! They are practically invisible to all forms of detection aren't they??

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Originally posted by chriswolfe68:

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Originally posted by sovietak474u:
I went to tanger outlet today and for some reason I kept on setting off the anti theft system. Ive carried my H&K usp 40. there and it never did it. But today I carried the glock 21 and it set off every single one! I even went to starship and it set theirs off. Does any know about these systems. And is there something about a glock that sets them off?

Can't be the glock!!!! Those things can pass through Airport metal detectors undetected for crying out loud! They are practically invisible to all forms of detection aren't they??

Hey, that's right, they are made of ceramic. John McClain said so.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
what the hell is Starship?

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Starship is a shop that sells porn, sextoys, and knives..."DON'T JUDGE ME"

Well.... I got news! I took the advise of a fellow member and did some trial and error. I walked in without the glock 21 and nothing happend. I walked in WITH it and it went off. I think glock put something in my glock to make it do that. I bought mine at the leo discount. Do they put something in police models that they dont in other ones. Because now I know its got to be the glock setting it off!!

PS. My girlfriend loves starship! Its a super great store

The sensor recognized you had a gun from the dark side. Carry your HK or even better a SIG.

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Originally posted by sovietak474u:
Well.... I got news! I took the advise of a fellow member and did some trial and error. I walked in without the glock 21 and nothing happend. I walked in WITH it and it went off. I think glock put something in my glock to make it do that. I bought mine at the leo discount. Do they put something in police models that they dont in other ones. Because now I know its got to be the glock setting it off!!

PS. My girlfriend loves starship! Its a super great store

Is there a chance it could be a security strip on your holster or did you walk in with just the holster on?