Largest database of "gun free" victim zones announced

Cell Phone App Marks Which Stores Are Firearm Friendly and Which Are Gun Free

GunFreeZoneApp.com, a mobile phone app company, recently announced via a press release that over 280,000 locations in all 50 states are now marked as either firearm friendly or gun free zones. Stores, churches, schools, theaters, malls, and other public places where mass murders often occur have been tagged by users of the app throughout the United States in the largest effort in history to mark the location of so-called "gun free" zones. According to the press release, the GunFreeZone phone app has collected its enormous crowd-sourced database in less than eight weeks into the largest listing of gun free zones and firearm friendly areas ever assembled.

"I am really impressed with how quickly this has taken off. To reach a quarter million locations marked in less than two months shows how strongly people feel about the gun issue," said John Peden, founder of the company. "People are obviously very passionate on both sides of the issue and this app helps them express that passion in a useful way," Peden added.

Karl Hale, another founder and programmer for the app, said, "Some of these locations, like post offices, have been administratively marked, others have been marked one at a time by someone who has pulled their cell phone out and taken the time to push the button on their phone. Presently, there are over 40,000 locations marked as firearm friendly and over 225,000 marked as 'gun free.'"

When a user opens the GunFreeZone app, the phone utilizes GPS to find its location and the nearest 20 stores. Touching a store's name brings up the page where users can select to mark the store as either a gun free zone or firearm friendly. The app tracks how many people have marked the location and that information is shared with all users of the app.