Posted on 03/10/2014 6:24:37 AM PDT by rktman
Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Superiority" made it clear decades ago that overreliance on technology can kill people. "We were defeated by one thing only – by the inferior science of our enemies. I repeat – by the inferior science of our enemies." The story's lesson is that, when national security or human safety depends on a product, that product has to work 100 percent of the time. This applies particularly to defensive firearms, cell phones, gun safes, and automobiles.
Dr. Ignatius Piazza of Front Sight reports that Armatix GmbH, a German gun manufacturer, is offering a "smart gun" that can be fired only by its owner. It comes as no surprise that New York and California – the principal sources of the nation's anti-Second Amendment legislation – are pressing for equally reckless and irresponsible "kill switches" for smartphones.
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My family gives me the old “he’s nuts grin” when I tell them that technology will be our undoing, not just militarily but as a society.
The book/ movie “Fail Safe” make this abundantly clear.
Let me guess. A receiver unit will be installed into the gun that will allow it to be turned on or off remotely via satellite by the feds on future models?
Sun spots?
Good quote. An example of this is the high-tech German Tiger tank vs the low-tech Soviet T-34.
The Tiger was an awesome tank, but it was expensive to produce and prone to breakdowns. The T-34 was just the opposite. Advantage T-34.
It was also too big for most of the roads over there, and too heavy.
As a soldier said in ZULU DAWN, “The bullets run out! The bloody spears don’t!”
LOL! One that I know of.
Cheaper means more of them too.
Only when the batteries are dead, do I dig through the cabinet for batteries. The batteries are in a cabinet with pots and pans.
Imagine doing that when a burglar is in the house.
Of course.
GREAT NEWS! I found 1500 rounds of .22 long rifle I stored years ago in perfect shape! Unfortunately it is cheap FEDERAL and of dubious quality.
Great for all my dumb guns except one, which chokes on it.
Anyone remember when Remington built a fine bolt action big game rifle with electronic ignition? As Peter Hathaway Capstick said years ago, “The most terrifying sound in the world is when your rifle goes ‘click’ instead of BANG.”
That will be one of the “undocumented features” that they don’t tell you about.
And the Luger versus the 1911A1. A really neat pistol and cool-looking in the extreme, but full of fiddly little parts (especially in the trigger assembly) and NOT reliable when dirty or fouled. You can drop an issue 1911 (not a fine-tuned competition one - it’s tighter) into a mudhole and it will still work. That’s why they called it “Ol’ Rattletrap”.
DELICIOUS IRONY: Gun guys permeate audience of anti-gun conference on how to “disrupt the gun lobby”
http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=11457
Similarly, how many Mig 29s can one F-22 take out?
I love the Peter Capstick books. ‘Death in the tall grass’ is one of my favorites.
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