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 rightsand hes not talking about the Second Amendment.
In April, Obama posed the question, If we can set it up so you cant unlock your phone unless youve got the right fingerprint, why cant we do the same thing for our guns?
Obama released a presidential memorandum requiring three departments to push smart gun researchthe 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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So-called smart guns are an utter waste of time and money.
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