Westgate Las Vegas Resort to test concealed weapons scanner

By Christen Smith

The Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino (Photo: Westgate Resorts)
Patriot One Technologies announced Thursday it will test a concealed weapons scanner at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort.
Westgate’s Chief Operating Officer Mark Waltrip provided few details about where or when resort guests would encounter the technology, a wall-mounted microwave radar system capable of detecting firearms hidden underneath a person’s clothes, but said “hopefully, this is the first of many deployments across our locations around the United States.”
The Florida-based Westgate Resorts includes 28 properties with more than 13,500 villas nationwide. Its 64-acre Las Vegas resort offers 3,000 hotel rooms, 305 suites and a 74,000 square foot casino.
“We believe our innovative concealed weapons detection software solution and related hardware offers a very significant step forward in security technology,” said Patriot One CEO Mark Cronin. “Naturally, Las Vegas offers us a chance to really put our solution to the test in a premier global destination.”
G.C. Gates, editor of NevadaCarry.org, wrote in a blog post Sunday he doubts such security measures will do much more than alienate guests.
“Gamblers, shoppers, restaurant diners, casual drinkers, and tourists strolling the Strip are not a security threat,” he said. “A Big Brother type system scanning bodies for concealed firearms

Source: Guns.com