New Company Claims Its Smart Gun Will be Accepted by Americans

personaldefenseworld.com ^ | Jan. 23, 2018 | PERSONAL DEFENSE WORLD

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Armatix

LODESTAR FIREARMS IS DEVELOPING A NEW SMART GUN CHAMBERED IN 9MM THAT IT HOPES WILL GAIN WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE AMONG AMERICANS.

A new smart gun company says its pistol will serve as the gateway to mass acceptance of smart guns in the United States.

According to The Trace, LodeStar Firearms based out of Philadelphia is in development on a smart gun chambered in 9mm and featuring radio frequency identification (RFID) tech which will ward off hackers. The MSRP on the gun will be about $750 and the goal is to have it available in 2019. The pistol is designed by Ernst Mauch, a former Heckler & Koch engineer who previously worked for Armatix but left after disagreeing with the way that company developed and marketed its iP1 pistol.

The already-controversial iP1 came under intense criticism last year when a hacker demonstrated that he was able to bypass the security system of the gun—which involves firing when paired with an accompanying RFID wrist watch—to make it fire a number of different ways, including using $15 worth of magnets.

That won’t happen with LodeStar’s gun, says CEO Gareth Glaser.

The smart gun will have a non-magnetic lock and fire only when it’s within three or four inches of a chip, which would make it harder for the gun to be interfered with, Glaser claims.

In an interview with NBC Philadelphia, Glaser refers to the chip as a “token” which would be placed in a watch, or “a ring, in a bracelet, or quite possibly implanted right here between your thumb and forefinger,” Glaser said.

[Blue Jays]

"...backwards flag..."

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The stars lead the way when charging forward!

[GingisK]

Not this American, at any price. Old batteries just fail, and then get stuck in the battery well. Nope, that won’t be what stops one of my weapons.

[GingisK]

Now get out there a obtain a decent pistol....

[Poison Pill]

HELL. NO.

[smokingfrog]

Common sense and good training is key. Seems like we have to dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator these days.

[Howie66]

Liberals remind me of chickens watching a poker game. They know that they see something. They just don’t know what the hell it is.

[SgtHooper]

LOL! May as well make solar powered, too!

[ZULU]

NO!!!#

[Cheerio]

New Jersey’s 2002 exclusive smart-gun law was almost triggered in 2014

"As of yet, smart guns are unavailable in gun shops. The iP1 almost went on sale in New Jersey on May 1 of this year at what would’ve been the first shop in the U.S. to carry a smart gun. Selling the firearm would’ve retroactively triggered a New Jersey law set in 2002, mandating that all gun dealers in the state begin exclusively selling smart guns within three years of the first of such firearms going on sale. I say “almost went on sale,” because New Jersey gun-shop owner Andy Raymond retracted his statements within 24 hours of announcing his intentions after receiving death threats from pro-gun activists who feared the proliferation of similar laws on a nationwide basis.

The effectiveness of smart-gun technology curbing crime is largely unknown, and more likely to be unrelated, as the vast number of gun-related crimes are committed with guns sold on the black market.

Via BBC, Verge

[Artemis Webb]

"In true FReeper fashion, I didn’t read the article. And I’m not going to read it before I insert my opinion."

Better to have an uniformed opinion read by many, than an informed opinion read by none. At least you and I know what makes the FR World go 'round. :)