Posted on 01/14/2022 6:14:01 AM PST by COBOL2Java
“Legally” left the building a LONG time ago. When the BATFE was just a taxing agency, they had a few shreds of legitimacy...
But when Bush moved them over under the DoJ in 2002... They lost that tenuous connection to the Constitution and are a wholly unConstitutional domestic terror organization now.
I’m not advocating this, but technically that would be easy if the notion of “smart cars” ever was fully implemented. In that case every car would be in constant communication with a tracking system and if it tried to enter a “geofenced” area, it would simply be disabled.
Again, I’m not suggesting this be done but your example would be much easier to do than smart guns where some sort of biometric or RFID sensor would be required to enable it to only fire under certain conditions. The last thing anyone wants is a gun that won’t work when needed because they forgot their secret decoder ring or their wife or kid is trying to fire it and they’re not authorized to.
Allowed to carry...
Of course you are correct. The prbloems you mention would need to be resolved before it even gets to the crazy stuff I mentioned.
The problems you mention are basic and very likely not possible to resolve.
Smart guns have been tried for the last 40 or so years. Always a bust.
If they are so great why do the Military and police forces reject them?
Guns are already smart enough to teach lessons. A new semester is close to starting
See reply # 37 above—it’s spot on.
Ask yourself how many times your smart phone screws up trying to read your biometric data, and then tell me you’re willing to risk your life, health, or family members’ life or health to such technology.
But as for me and my family, we will not.
“Near? No, the tech doesn’t even exist yet. Eventually (like 100 years), it won’t even be mandated, there just won’t be anything else.”
Exactly,
Plus its a stupid concept.
How would I sell the firearm or pass it down to a descendant?
But higher decisions never stand alone and always have "coat tails" because they also constitute case law that other lesser courts should learn from. And in the case of SCOTUS's Heller decision, one of the more significant episodes of "coat tails" was in the DC Court of Appeals' 2010 Herrington decision, in which it ruled that the banning the possession of handgun ammunition was unconstitutional because such a ban inhibits the individual's right to exercise his 2nd-Amendment rights.
The DC appeals court's decision actually uses the phrase "it logically follows that" to link SCOTUS's mandatory trigger locks to its own ruling that blanket bans on possessing ammunition were unconstitutional.
So extending the Heller decision's logic further still, mandating so-called "smart" guns must also be unconstitutional unless and until they are proved infallible.
And oh by the way, we should...
... because the best surest to keep the camel's nose out of your tent is to kill it while it's still in the womb.
A smart gun would allow the fascists government to disable firearms to operate whenever they deemed they needed to turn them off and load in to boxcars to move to the desert re-education camps.
I’d prefer not to have that attached to any firearms in my position. So I will never submit.
Not a chance since most are too dumb to understand the phrase, "shall not be infringed".
I am waiting for “Smart Condoms”
Y the time this crap gets rolled out, printing guns will be the norm.
I’ve been shooting since I could keep the muzzle out of the dirt. Add 20 years in the Army, shooting everything they allowed me to, from .22 rifles, various machine guns, and my favorite, the 105mm rifle mounted on many of the tanks, from M-48A5s to the early M-1s. And also the 152mm gun/launcher, and guided AT missiles, to boot. And pistols, too.
From my flintlock squirrel rifle, to the best tank guns, there are too many things as they are to go wrong.
Only and idiot would add electronics to it to make it ‘safe.’
Electronics don’t always work to make some of those weapons accurate. They go wrong in the most unfortunate times and the most unpredictable ways.
In self defense situations, at home, at work, or on the road one must consider that I or my spouse may or may not have access to a specific weapon at the needed time. It would have to ‘match’ both of us, and any other family member who knows where they are and when to use them.
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