

Will Murphy Rob Harvey
About Us:
Will Murphy:
Will started his law enforcement career as a State Trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol in 2005. With over 19 years of law enforcement experience, Will is a Glock Armor, AR/M4 Armor, and a Field Training Officer. Currently he is working as an Arson & Explosives Detective in Orlando, Florida. Will has a very extensive interest and knowledge of firearms and accessories, and also studied drafting and design. As a law enforcement officer, he was often approached by people seeking advice on how to properly store firearms.
Rob Harvey:
Rob started his law enforcement career as an Orange County Deputy Sheriff in Orlando, FL in 1999. Currently he is working as an Arson & Explosives Detective in Orlando, Florida. With over 24 years of law enforcement experience, Rob is a Firearms Instructor, Glock Armor, and a Field Training Officer. He has always had a passion for “how things work” and uses his mechanical mind to think of ways to solve problems while improving lives.
The beginning of Gun Guardian:
After failing to find practical firearm storage devices on the market, Will used his knowledge of firearms and design to sculpt modeling clay to his service pistol and patrol rifle. These lumps of clay became the first Gun Guardian concepts, bridging the gap between safe and readily available.
Will showed these concepts to his co-worker, Rob, and together they brainstormed all the features needed to make a simple and effective on-demand storage device. They melted and molded plastic to make basic functioning prototypes, then presented them to Zalaco, LLC, a Central Florida company founded by a former Lockheed Martin engineer. They worked together to write the patents and create computer-aided designs, high-resolution images, and 3D prints of Gun Guardian.
After many years of failed designs and attempts, we developed Trigger Shield, One-Step Opening (TS-1). TS-1 won a Department of Defense contract and has been tested, used, and approved by multiple law enforcement agencies across the United States of America.