“Smart” Gun Bill to be Considered on Tuesday, April 15 in the California Assembly!

NRA - ILA ^ | April 10, 2008 | NA

[Syncro]

...handguns with a permanent, programmable biometric feature that renders the firearm useless unless activated by the authorized user. No proven, viable handgun of this type has ever been developed.

Translation: No one can buy a hand gun ever again.

That should be the name of the bill.

Yea, let's have a bill that says the only firearm you can buy doesn't exist.

[ASOC]

Huummmm,,

I already own a ‘smart gun’.

Works every time I go to shoot it.

Nice, easy to operate and maintain. Ergometric controls. Avalible in different calibers.

What, you say, what kind is it?

The smartest one out there

M1911, 45 ACP - made in 1916. John Moses got it right the first time... And that my FRiends, is one smart gun (weapon actually, but you know what I mean)

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Thanks for the post and your efforts as always.

[supercat]

If these technologies actually worked, they would be of greater value to cops than to the average citizen. Cops, after all, are often required to put themselves in situations where they're at risk of having their guns stolen--situations which ordinary citizens would generally avoid.

Therefore, any exemption for cops must be taken as an acknowledgment that the technologies don't actually work; to mandate such technologies when they don't work is to acknowledge that failure is not considered a 'bad thing'.

[wastedyears]

Why only a political base?

[sergeantdave]

“Political base” - simply a phrase meaning electing like-minded people who will protect your back and you theirs.

For example, the elected sheriff in my county, along with his deputies, is a strong constitutionalist who believes in the 2nd amendment. We like that.

[wastedyears]

Seems more friendly than other alternatives we can think of.