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Obama Puts His Weight Behind Smart Gun Technology
New York Times ^ | APRIL 29, 2016 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ERIC LICHTBLAU

Posted on 04/29/2016 12:05:05 PM PDT by reaganaut1

WASHINGTON — President Obama will use the power of his office to push for adoption of so-called smart gun technology that could eventually limit the use of a firearm to its owner, the White House announced Friday morning.

The move is intended to allow Mr. Obama to confront firearms violence in the face of fierce opposition to broader gun control measures. But critics of smart gun technology, including some police officials, are expected to fight a proposal that they see as unproven and an unwarranted restriction on the freedom to use firearms.

The initiative was unveiled on the White House website, along with a report from the administration’s law enforcement agencies concluding that the government should do more to spur development of the technologies. To that end, the Defense and Justice Departments will develop criteria for gun manufacturers who want to sell smart guns to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

The administration will also offer cash prizes and grants to gun manufacturers to spur development of the technology, which is intended to make a gun useless if someone other than the owner tries to fire it.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; obama
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To: progunner

Smart guns, electromagnetic pulse, and planning for unknown-probability dangers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/23/smart-guns-electromagnetic-pulse-and-planning-for-unknown-probability-dangers/


41 posted on 04/29/2016 2:00:26 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: chris37

Yes,,,, I’ll make it. You sent me an answer that is a joke’.


42 posted on 04/29/2016 2:17:09 PM PDT by progunner (no compromise)
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To: reaganaut1

In other news, Obama is working on legislation banning door lccks so criminals won’t fell “stigmatized.”


43 posted on 04/29/2016 2:19:50 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: chris37
Yeah, no smart guns. Don't want Fed.gov controlling my means of self-defense against them, or against the thugs they feed and incite to violence.

And surprisingly, a lot of automotive electronics is pretty well shielded. And some consumer electronic equipment. I would expect a tablet not connected to the power mains to survive an EMP, just laying on a wood table.

44 posted on 04/29/2016 2:23:43 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: reaganaut1


45 posted on 04/29/2016 2:28:21 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: SoFloFreeper

I hope President Trump does something to make this little traitor pay for what he has done to our country.


46 posted on 04/29/2016 2:29:51 PM PDT by jimbug
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To: alloysteel
Imagine if you will Obama's 'smart gun'

When the trigger is depressed, on comes the recording of the helpful customer service rep:

"If your life is in imminent danger, press one"

"If your leg is being chewed into hamburger by an aggressive dog, press two"

If you are stoned, high or otherwise incapacitated and just want to light up the 'hood, press 3"

47 posted on 04/29/2016 2:35:08 PM PDT by jimbug
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To: reaganaut1
Well, the "smart phone" worked ...

Why not the "smart gun"?


48 posted on 04/29/2016 2:40:10 PM PDT by x
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To: reaganaut1

Any gun manufacturer involved with this will be permanently boycotted by me and by as many decent people as I can convince. With the thugs planning to mandate unreliable firearms for everyone once one is marketed, researching any “Smart Gun” is unforgivable.


49 posted on 04/29/2016 3:10:38 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: reaganaut1

obama is a toothless and on-the-way out figure.

This is simple nonsense.

On the other hand, if Hillary is elected, this will look like halcyon days by comparison.


50 posted on 04/29/2016 3:25:38 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: reaganaut1

just wait until conservatives retake both houses, then we will show them....

The GOP-e cannot get the K Street spoon out of their mouths to care about anything.

It is over people.


51 posted on 04/29/2016 3:55:53 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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To: reaganaut1
"...Obama Puts His Weight Behind Smart Gun Technology..."

Well, thank goodness. We couldn't have wished for a more air-headed lightweight, so nothing will get moved.

52 posted on 04/29/2016 5:19:59 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: reaganaut1

He is irrelevant and he is a LIGHTweight anyway.


53 posted on 04/29/2016 5:28:15 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: reaganaut1

Those with machining tools and the ability to run them will reinvent the do it yourself in the firearm business if ohbozo keeps the monkeying antics up. Just saying.


54 posted on 04/29/2016 6:29:10 PM PDT by Recompennation
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That is what his Ego weighs, any thing else is just empty space.


55 posted on 04/30/2016 6:58:18 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: reaganaut1

There are only two places for any gun I own. It is either in my direct physical possession, or it is locked in a secure safe. I would never rely on any “Smart Gun” technology to secure a gun to the point where I would keep it any other way. So the Smart Gun technology does absolutely nothing to keep my guns safer, and introduces additional modes of failure for me.


56 posted on 05/02/2016 1:18:36 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (By November, we are going to wish Trump was a Northeastern Rockefeller Republican...)
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