Well ah, I thought I posted one. I hope this will do.
http://www.news12.com/NJ/topstories/article?id=88980 NJIT members help develop new electronic gun safety device
(08/31/03) NEWARK - Guns could be safer thanks to new "smart gun" technology developed in New Jersey. Members of the Australian gun manufacturer Metal Storm and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have teamed up to make an electronic gun safety device.
The safety system is based on they way someone squeezes the gun while pulling the trigger. By putting pressure measurement devices on the grip of the gun, the mechanism is able to determine whether it is a grip pattern that was stored in, an authorized user or an intruder. It is in that process, during the moment of trigger pull, where the mechanism enables or disables the gun from firing.
NJIT officials say the biometric grip recognition system is potentially compatible with a conventional mechanical firearm. The new guns should be available in two to three years.
Many folks think the new technology is a good idea. Those against the "smart gun" technology say it does nothing to impact the 192 million firearms already in U.S. circulation.
My comment remains the same. You go to a gun shop, buy an electronic gun that 'fingerprints' your grip pattern standing there in the shop. I would not trust that device to be 100% reliable under a high stress life or death situation. Not for a second.
Like someone astutely observed. The day the Presidents security detail carry these weapons is they day I might consider it too.