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Posted on 05/27/2016 3:34:58 AM PDT by richardb72
At a White House conference on Tuesday with representatives of state and local law enforcement from all 50 states, Vice President Joe Biden asserted that an “overwhelming majority” of Americans fully support so-called smart guns — firearms that can only be fired by a particular person. Biden claimed that this technology “could have gigantic payoff for us” in saving lives and reducing gun-related violence.
Now, President Obama wants to use federal grants to encourage police departments to buy “smart guns” for officers. The idea is to prevent officers’ guns from being used against them. In reality, this technology is more likely to endanger lives than to save them.
In the five years from 2010 to 2014, 14 police officers were murdered with their own guns. This is slightly less than three per year out of the 627,949 full-time law-enforcement officers in our country. The possible lives saved have to be balanced against the risks introduced by switching to these guns.
Smart guns use a fingerprint or palm reader in order to operate — something akin to what is available on your smart phone. Or they can require a radio signal from a wristwatch worn by the officer.
But perhaps the Obama administration should watch fewer James Bond movies and listen to the concerns of the police, who are less than thrilled about experimenting with these new types of guns. “We have some very, very serious questions,” says James Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police. . . .
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I’ve fired .50 BMG in a rifle. I don’t even want to THINK what firing that out of a pistol would be like.
Then again, my CCP weapon is a .380, the home duty weapon is a 9mm, because the wife and daughters can’t handle a .45. . .
Not .50 BMG!!! Hell would freeze over before I fired that one through a pistol!
.50 AE, similar ballistically to a .45 ACP, but a bugger slug.
I carry a Sig P938 daily....
Smart gun?
A gun with a battery that needs changing.
Oh yeah, that’ll work.
SMART Guns should be made to explode when a RAT holds them.
My dad, long deceased, used to plant far over loaded home made ammo in his vehicle, leave it unlocked in a “high crime area” and walk away. He would return and of course the ammo box would be gone.
He was an excellent reloader. I doubt many could determine that box of shells looked anything but pristine.
He used to laugh thinking what would happen when the thief pulled the trigger on that 12 ga with 30+ grains of bullseye in the charge. I believe he only used wadding for the projectiles.
His only comment is I hope they do it when they are holding someone up or trying to kill a cop, he was one.
Where is the fun in that... Practice my grouping
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