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Obama Directs The Pentagon To Study Gun Safety
National Public Radio ^ | January 8, 2016 | David Welna

Posted on 01/08/2016 5:34:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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The White House has ordered the Pentagon to study gun safety in an attempt to field new technologies that make weapons safer. But the military services don't have any desire for safer weapons, and none of the technologies or products that already exist have found any acceptance among gun buyers.

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

They're called smart guns - weapons that can only be fired by their owners. President Obama is directing the Pentagon and other federal agencies to both develop and promote smart gun technology. Firearms manufacturers, though, have resisted adding these safety features. Gun safety advocates hope that will change with the president's new initiatives. NPR's David Welna reports.

DAVID WELNA, BYLINE: In his executive order on guns earlier this week, President Obama tasked the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security with getting smart gun technology out to the real world....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; military; obama; secondamendment

1 posted on 01/08/2016 5:34:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh no. Not the rubber bullets again.


2 posted on 01/08/2016 5:35:33 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A little late.

The rest of us studied gun safety in the 6-7th grade.


3 posted on 01/08/2016 5:36:53 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So now under Obama, the Pentagon is focused on the American public. Surprise.


4 posted on 01/08/2016 5:37:29 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, I think I got a patch when I did this in Boy Scouts. Good for the military because they like to wear patches and stuff.


5 posted on 01/08/2016 5:40:17 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Go Ted!;all)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The secret service should be the first to use them


6 posted on 01/08/2016 5:40:19 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: JudyinCanada
Oh no. Not the rubber bullets again.

Without doing any research on it, I seem to remember that nut case Jocelyn Elders, saying we need safer bullets. These people really are a bunch of idiots, who just don't get it.

7 posted on 01/08/2016 5:42:42 PM PST by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: Mark17
saying we need safer bullets

As in bullets that only hurts someone's feelings.

8 posted on 01/08/2016 5:47:16 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trump & Cruz - Together, a Better America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a doofus.

On his best day, a clueless, incompetent dweeb.


9 posted on 01/08/2016 5:51:24 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Mark17

Yup. Jocelyn Elders. Rubber bullets and outercourse. She was a prize.


10 posted on 01/08/2016 5:58:36 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: The Iceman Cometh
As in bullets that only hurts someone's feelings.

Libtards don't even want their feelings hurt. Screw them.

11 posted on 01/08/2016 6:00:14 PM PST by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why doesn’t he just sign up for NRA training? He is wasting our tax dollars again. The NRA training is excellent and already done and ready for potential participants. No “government funded study” needed.


12 posted on 01/08/2016 6:08:00 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“gun safety” = protecting the government from armed citizens


13 posted on 01/08/2016 6:20:24 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looking forward to the day when Barack Obama’s influence on matters related to this great country is no longer present.


14 posted on 01/08/2016 10:30:55 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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