Paige, clean-up is becoming a big issue. Not only do lab sites need to be cleared for meth residue, they need to be cleared for the many solvents and other dangerous precursors used in cooking meth that have adsorbed onto surfaces.
If the CDEX meth gun can check a lab site for all of the possible hazardous residual chemicals with certified test results it would be a extremely useful tool IMO.
If it can only check for meth then not so good if other test methods need to be used in conjunction.
As you know, there are many other instruments that can check for all the known hazards, albeit, they may not all check in open air and/or they may not check for trace.
If the meth gun can check for everything for a mere 10K, it would have a clear advantage in a rapidly developing market IMO. However, if the meth gun falls into the same category as existing instruments on the market where it can do some thing better than others, others can do things better than it and no instrument can do it all, then we'll just have to wait and see where it finds its niche and market share.
I believe that is a very reasonable assessment.
Since we still don't know a lot about the meth gun (except for some mock-up photographs of Poteet and others pointing a prototype at objects) we'll have to patiently wait and see what facts unfold.
Imaginative speculation, grandstanding and touting does not produce facts.
