Research and Development departments in detection instrumentation companies, and screener trainers who teach screeners to use x-ray equipment an metal detectors, require non-gun look-alikes that are sufficiently detailed externally and internally to substitute for real firearms. They must be real-looking, but completely inert, yet have sufficient internal components that they also look real on x-ray. They have to contain sufficient metal to trigger a metal detector.

They must not be required to be licensed. They must be able to accurately represent handguns (semi-automatic pistols and revolvers) and long guns (rifles and shotguns). They must contain a few rounds of inert ammunition that will also show up correctly on x-ray. Many real firearms are made of composite materials, so look-alikes representing them must also be composites of steel (or aluminum) and polycarbonate plastics. Firearms are manufactured in many sizes, so training and test programs need simulant look-alikes in different sizes.

Securesearch, Inc. custom manufactures a wide variety of firearm inert look-alikes for such applications and has made them for airports, other government agencies, and the largest x-ray manufacturers in the United States. They are labelled with a serial number and the name of the company or agency that purchases these inert products from us.

These look-alike items cannot fire live ammunition. They contain no actual firearm parts or components.

Note that we also make and supply some look-alike steel items representing disassembled firearms, revolver cylinders, slide-barrel-recoil spring assemblies, and ammunition clips or magazines. They provide a correct x-ray image, and are equally detectable with metal detectors.