Posted on 04/07/2014 1:49:40 PM PDT by Red Steel
DOJ requesting $2 million for ‘Gun Safety Technology’ grants
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to “explore” as part of its gun control efforts.
When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee that his agency is looking into technological innovations.
“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.
“By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.”
“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.
The Justice Department has requested $382.1 million in increased spending for its fiscal year 2014 budget for “gun safety.”
Included in the proposal is $2 million for “Gun Safety Technology” grants, which would award prizes for technologies that are “proven to be reliable and effective.”
President Barack Obama’s budget proposal also calls for $1.1 billion to “protect Americans from gun violence—including $182 million to support the president’s ‘Now is the Time’ gun safety initiative.”
A recent innovation allows a gun owner to only unlock a safe with a fingerprint scan and an “RFID-equipped bracelet.”
Others have suggested manufacturing GPS tracking and RFID chips into every gun. RFID chips transmit location data and are used by law enforcement agencies to send automatic alerts if a weapon moves away from the tracker, indicating that the gun is lost or stolen.
We need to be exploring politician tracking bracelets...who knows, maybe even neckties!
Why don’t we try some old fashion criminal control instead?
Require it for all law enforcement.
Figure out hot to get government agents and criminals to wear them before you even think of imposing something like this on the rest of us.
i think this should be used on all govt folks carrying guns.
let’s test it on them first. see how they like it.
Yeah, issue me a bracelet. I will put it on my dog, and you can track her. That will be fun.
Me???
I'll stick with simple, low-tech weapons that just work.
Yawohl! You vill now vear a bracelet to fire zee gun. Ve vill control zee bracelet!
“..Why don’t we try some old fashion criminal control instead?...”
uhmmmm...IF we did that, then most of DC would be empty. The WH & Congress would be barren for sure. The alphabet agencies would mostly also look empty.
Instead of a bracelet, how about a necklace, Eric? A worn out Firestone, some heavy fuel oil and a match....
Did they make sure the fast and furious guns has this technology? That way guns would only be in the hands of the drug cartels and couldn’t accidentally be used by citizens to defend themselves.
Why not necklaces?
Rings would probably be less intrusive and look less gay.
It’s all stupid anyway, and will probably take all of two hours for some 12 year old to hack, or find a workaround that will make it meaningless.
I would like to see them all in bracelettes, and orange jump suits!
Yes, all of us should have monitors on our TV’s that can track those characters wherever we want. HA!
No thanks.
I’d rather not have petty tyrants tracking me everywhere I go.
Does he think we are so stupid as to believe that this will take the guns out of the criminals’ hands?
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