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Obama Smart Gun Push Could Conflict With Constitutional Rights, Legal Expert Says
Daily Signal ^ | 6/21/2016 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 06/22/2016 6:42:30 AM PDT by milton23

President Barack Obama plans to make smart gun technology a primary part of his push to control firearms, but an expert warns that the new high-tech weaponry poses a danger to constitutional rights—and he’s not talking about the Second Amendment.

In April, Obama posed the question, “If we can set it up so you can’t unlock your phone unless you’ve got the right fingerprint, why can’t we do the same thing for our guns?”

Obama released a presidential memorandum requiring three departments to push smart gun research—the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense. The memo also entices the industry to manufacture those devices by offering to provide funding for research. But applying the standards of phones to guns could create significant problems said Joseph Greenlee, a Second Amendment lawyer from Frisco, Colorado, and a member of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2ndamendment; banglist; election2016; guncontrol; guns; newyork; obama; secondamendment; trump
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So-called smart guns are an utter waste of time and money.


21 posted on 06/22/2016 10:38:58 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Smart guns for Obama's security detail ONLY. Make him live with the consequences of that decision.
22 posted on 06/22/2016 11:16:49 AM PDT by Myrddin
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