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Posted on 01/11/2022 7:47:12 AM PST by PROCON
Rob Regent of SGW Designworks breaks down the inner working of the 9mm smart gun, which works only for the designated user, during a presentation for shareholders and potential investors in Boise, Idaho, U.S. January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Losness
Jan 11 (Reuters) - Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new wave of government regulation.
Four-year-old LodeStar Works on Friday unveiled its 9mm smart handgun for shareholders and investors in Boise, Idaho. And a Kansas company, SmartGunz LLC, says law enforcement agents are beta testing its product, a similar but simpler model.
Both companies hope to have a product commercially available this year.
LodeStar co-founder Gareth Glaser said he was inspired after hearing one too many stories about children shot while playing with an unattended gun. Smart guns could stop such tragedies by using technology to authenticate a user's identity and disable the gun should anyone else try to fire it.
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The fingerprint reader unlocks the gun in microseconds, but since it may not work when wet or in other adverse conditions, the PIN pad is there as a backup. LodeStar did not demonstrate the near-field communication signal, but it would act as a secondary backup, enabling the gun as quickly as users can open the app on their phones.
"Uh, excuse me Mr. Bad Guy, before you shoot me I need to find my smart phone."
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Or forgetting your four digit pin when somebody is pointing a gun at you.
I prefer my dumb guns.
After all, an officer is more susceptible to being shot by his/her own weapon, so this technology should be a life-saver for law enforcement, no?
Yet another advantage for revolvers.
Yeah. You gotta be pretty damn dumb to get a “smart “ gun.
This is a perfect solution...for government LEO. Let them see how it will fail in the real world.
A solution in search of a problem. Childhood accidental gun deaths are on the decline, even as gun ownership skyrockets.
Woke politicians will force law enforcement to buy these, as this will a purely political product — but I can’t imagine one-single gun-owner / 2nd Amendment supporter I know who would ever consider having one of these - even if given it for free.
My cell phone has a fingerprint sensor on the back. I am constantly having to “update” it. After all the messing around it works about 90% of the time. “Excuse me Mr. Homicidal Criminal... Could you please hold still, I need to lick my fingertip before my gun will allow me to shoot you.”
Dumb guns and Smart shooters.
(((YAWN))) Greedy freeloaders trying to force their bullsh*t on the American people and make us pay for worthless crap. I notice no one is trying to make knives or blunt objects “Smart”.
I’m all for making them available to liberals, Marxist’s and
Democrats.
Would imagine that the phone app could be hacked into by the government to completely disable the weapon, rendering it useless.
And if the internet is down? :-}
Replace ALL Secret Service protection details, FBI, and IRS weapons with smart guns. ZERO dumb weapons of any kind, including personal, will be held by these service personnel. Give it a 2-year trial.
Until the government bans revolvers.
When the Secret Service adopts these as standard issue and has a 5 year track record with them maybe Iād start to think about it.
On second thought, not even then.
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