Posted April 10, 2017 9:09 am by Comments

By Jacki Billings

With over 80 precent of the American population owning a smartphone, apps have taken a larger role in providing resources to gun owners. (Photo: USCCA)
During the last two decades the capabilities of portable devices and the quality of the apps therein have dramatically increased. This uptick in new mobile tech is forcing the gun industry, notoriously slow to change, to reevaluate the way it trains and even the way it socializes.
Mobile apps started small, relegated to calculators, calendars and simplistic Java-based games on brick-sized phones in the early 1990s. However as cellphones became more sophisticated, so did the apps that powered them, eventually leading consumers down the path of having the virtual world at their fingertips.
Now as smartphone ownership in the U.S. tops the 80 percent threshold it’s no surprise that gun industry innovators are finally taking notice and offering firearm owners more handheld resources.
While some training is only smartphone based, not all begin and end with just an app. The newly announced iPTS system utilizes an inert gun and proprietary targets for dry fire training, but also integrates a mobile app. Kevin Creighton, Product Marketing Director for iPTS, told Guns.com in an email that the inclusion of an app not only practical but the best

Source: Guns.com

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