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Second look at “smart gun” technology?
A gun with the “smart” technology would sense the gun owner’s biometrics and grip pattern, allowing only the registered gun owner to operate the weapon. Similar devices, such as RFID chips and magnetic rings, are both available and under development.
However, Nick Bilton, technology reporter for The New York Times’ technology blog “Bits,” wrote Wednesday that weapons featuring the biometric technology are hard to find in stores, because demand is low.
“No one thinks a smart gun will stop a determined killer,” Bilton said.
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So why a “second look” AND a weapon keyed only to me, doesn’t help my life partner or child or friend when I’m not home or incapacitated and they need to use my fire arm to defend themselves.
I’d like to ask journalists to adopt “smart key board” technology, first…you know their keyboard or their microphone ONLY work for them…think of the increased security!
JFKY on January 12, 2013 at 10:28 PM
I’ll look again…I’ll laugh again…and I’ll forget about it again.
Why? Because I’m a lifelong techie, and I can tell you right now they want a hidden lock on your “smart guns”. You can take that to the bank, cash it, and buy a month’s worth of groceries.
MelonCollie on January 12, 2013 at 10:32 PM
Stupidity. I can’t let my friends use mine at the range?
rbj on January 12, 2013 at 10:34 PM
Just like locking a car keeps it from being stolen.
Tc0061 on January 12, 2013 at 10:36 PM
MelonCollie on January 12, 2013 at 10:32 PM
Conversely, the government is being incredibly arrogant and foolish in this too…it’s like the “clipper chip” from the 1990′s…the Government was going to use ONLY clipper chips (with an FBI/CIA built-in backdoor) and FORCE civilian firms to to produce it for everyone, being the largest SINGLE buyer of chips…it always seemed insane, the government was basically telling ANYONE there was a technical back door into any US government system…
So too Smart Guns, supposedly to prevent their use against police, I mean taking a peace officer’s gun and using against them…as you say with the proper key you could disarm the Police/FBI/SWAT team! Who in their right mind would trust such a device?
JFKY on January 12, 2013 at 10:38 PM
These morons aren’t looking for solutions to any real problems.
They are looking to control.
It’s all about control.
justltl on January 12, 2013 at 10:41 PM
Anyone who has used the fingerprint security on their laptop and ended up locked out of it knows the stupidity of such ideas in a critical situation.
RFID chips were supposed to revolutionize retail too. Every item would have a chip it in. You wouldn’t even need to take it out of the cart at checkout. The whole thing would be scanned as you walked by a register. Walmart tested it and they couldn’t get the success rate past 60%.
Rocks on January 12, 2013 at 10:48 PM
One reason demand is low is because the technology is practically nonexistent and can get you killed.
There is a company that will modify certain model of S&W revolvers with a magnetic lock that’s deactivated by a special ring worn on the hand used to grip the gun. It has to be worn on the middle finger for 6 shot revolvers and on the ring finger for 5 shot revolvers.
If your strong hand is injured or otherwise occupied for some reason and you have to use your weak hand your screwed.
Even worse would be an electronic device. I’m not going to stake my life on a gun that I can’t use if a battery goes dead or a transistor fails.
single stack on January 12, 2013 at 10:48 PM
It gets even worse – if that ‘key’ can be simulated with a strong enough pulsed signal (different than a random-noise EMP burst) you can remotely disarm the entire godd@mn police department.
MelonCollie on January 12, 2013 at 10:51 PM
Biden could use some smart chip technology.
Dusty on January 12, 2013 at 10:51 PM
How about “dumb chip” technology for liberals? If they’re about to say something stupid, it shuts off their voice box, and if they’re thinking something stupid, it gives their brain a momentary jolt.
…on second thought, that would reduce 99% of liberaldom to being mute epileptics.
MelonCollie on January 12, 2013 at 10:56 PM
Do these smart chip adapted firearms come with solar panel shroud attachments for when I’m at the firing range.
Dusty on January 12, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Great idea, we can go green AND have smart guns…all the chips must be solar powered!
JFKY on January 12, 2013 at 10:59 PM
To paraphrase an old quote from Mark Levin:
Glenn Jericho on January 12, 2013 at 11:06 PM
Biden and smart don’t go together.
Schadenfreude on January 12, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Smart gun technology is select fire. So yeah, let’s make select fire more available.
tom daschle concerned on January 12, 2013 at 11:22 PM
I would never use a biometric device such as a gun safe for the simple reason that sweat or blood can confuse the sensor, the exact fluids you would have on your hands when you desperately trying to open the safe.
Bishop on January 12, 2013 at 11:25 PM
I’m not a shrink, but I’ve been thinking a lot about gun CONTROL and the control freaks that are pushing for it with no semblance of logic or reasoning behind their desired ends.
Control freaks have a lot of anxiety. Their method of squelching their anxiety is by controlling their environment and especially the people within it. It’s an itch that they have to constantly scratch. It’s like somebody having to wash their hands a thousand times a day. If they don’t do it, they are overwhelmed with anxiety. Control freaks have to control to scratch their itch.
They probably end up inserting themselves in situations, relationships and jobs where they have the opportunity to control. Politics anyone?
I suspect that deep within they feel inferior but they squelch this feeling by a delusional sense of self worth- elitism or narcissism. I suspect they have a lot of inner anger and paranoia.
So take someone like the turd Obama. Here’s a guy who grew up in a pathological environment where he probably felt totally out of control. He probably isolated himself from it psychologically, if not physically. He probably received a lot of self esteem boosting from a crazy mother, which made him narcissistic, yet with a deep feeling of inferiority, since, deep down, he realizes that he is a turd.
So he grows up to be a control freak narcissist with a giant (and in his case well deserved) inferiority complex. His inferiority complex caused him to deeply resent anyone that he felt was thought to be his better- probably whites and the wealthy. His commie mentors and relatives and later his commie friends like Ayers and Wright provided a lot of positive feedback for his bitterness and seemingly paradoxical narcissist inferiority complex.
So now we have a narcissist with an inferiority complex, a big chip on his shoulder against everyone, but mainly whites and the rich, who is a control freak to boot. Bad combination there, especially when put in a position of power. Right now he just likes to punish whites, punish the rich, take out a few targets with drones, wreck what he views as an alien, hostile nation and rub people’s noses in his poop- but it won’t satisfy that ferocious itch for long, and that’s when it’s going to get really dangerous for the masses.
justltl on January 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM
I think that’s all the reason he appoints morons to his cabinet, supreme court justices and the like. It allows him to feel superior and humiliate the country at the same time. Joe Biden, of course, is his house imbecile. Sort of a court jester. And when he lets the imbecile Biden take charge of a big issue like gun control, he feels added satisfaction- Biden is his very own little pile of poop in which he rubs the noses of us bitter clingers.
justltl on January 13, 2013 at 12:05 AM
‘Smart Gun” technology didn’t work the first time around. It damn sure isn’t going to work this time around, either.
Jack Deth on January 13, 2013 at 12:37 AM
Well, yes, it’s obvious you’re not a shrink: you didn’t use nearly enough really big words. But, your analysis is pretty darn good.
As far as smart gun technology… nah. I’ll stick with good weapon retention technique, thank you.
GWB on January 13, 2013 at 1:45 AM
We’ve already got smart guns. They fire only when told to.
How about we give smart people a try, (D)s?
rogerb on January 13, 2013 at 5:59 AM
A gun is a pipe and a hammer. How smart can you make that?
S. Weasel on January 13, 2013 at 8:32 AM
Better idea: Make the DC Federal Triangle a gun-free zone.
petefrt on January 13, 2013 at 9:30 AM