Posted on 05/13/2015 12:50:06 PM PDT by HammerT
Some possible good news on the Second Amendment front is emerging from New Jersey. One of the most intrusive (and frankly, unworkable) gun control laws in the country may be heading for the scrapyard as legislators in the Garden State slowly come to the realization that they just can’t force everyone to have “smart guns” instead of conventional firearms.
Leading Democratic state lawmakers are seriously considering scrapping New Jersey’s longstanding but never-implemented law requiring all handguns sold in the state feature “smart gun” technology that allows only the weapon’s owners to fire them, NJ Advance Media has learned.There are other smart gun technologies in various stages of development which rely on a number of concepts including embedding RFID chips under your skin in your shooting arm. That sounds lovely. There is also Dynamic Grip Recognition which comes straight out of Robocop. This relies on your weapon being smart enough to recognize your hand as you grip it based on a variety of factors. Unfortunately, even if the genius handgun does learn who you are, it can be thwarted if you spill coffee on your hand at Starbucks. More to the point, if you find yourself in a tight situation requiring quick action and your “smart gun” fails to acknowledge your ownership, well… I suppose you could try hitting the bad guy over the head with it.
All in all, it may signal a small indication of sanity in New Jersey if the legislature just gives up on this. If they want to modify the law to “encourage” gun shops to sell smart guns I suppose that’s an improvement, but any government “encouragement” always comes in the form of a price tag that the taxpayers will have to cover.
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Is it one of Crispy Creme’s bath towels.....cause that would be a huge towel.
Please.. I don’t want to have break out the eye bleach.
So-called smart gun technology is a bad idea which is absolutely unworkable and would certainly get innocent people killed while leaving crooks to use any firearms they can get their hands on.
Naturally, it’s an idea much loved in New Jersey, Maryland, and California, among other such addled places.
Yes, good news,. And Steve S-Weeny is a fat POS.
In an odd way I sort of appreciate NJ’s gun laws. They’re the only thing that prevents Connecticut’s gun laws from being the stupidest in the nation.
We should mandate that the government has to use the technology first... and if they survive.. we think about it..
And when I say ‘think about it’ I mean that a polite ways of saying No Freaking way..
So-called smart guns are a fantasy created in the minds of gun grabbing liberals.
The “smart-gun” technology is not sufficiently well developed to be reliable and sufficiently selective so it shall ALWAYS, and ONLY, respond to the person to whom it was supposedly linked.
The technology may never be that sophisticated and reliable. At least, not until human beings have been “enhanced” with cyborg capabilities, and the weapon is integrated with the cyborg, “point and shoot”.
Want to put this ‘smart gun’ nonsense in the trash can where it deserves to go? REQUIRE all NJ politician’s body guards, politicians with carry permits, and all local and state law enforcement officers to carry ‘smart guns’. If theses guys refuse, then that settles the reliability question (plus, the technology isn’t there). The bottom line is a sidearm isn’t any good to its user that will not go BANG! when it is needed in the gravest extreme.
“smart gun” is a dumb law. The gun is obviously not smart. It has software and sensors. That doesn’t make it smart.
The lawmakers who proposed this law are dumb.
Exactly - let the ‘elite’ be the guinea pigs for ‘smart guns’.
This was never for them to have to deal with - only we the underlings of NJ and beyond.
New Jersey gave up on trying to alter reality? I don’t believe it.
Smart Guns are Stupid
Smart Guns: Stuck On Stupid
If Smart Guns are so Awesome, Mandate Govt Must Use Them, First
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