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Applied Digital working on 'smart gun'
Palm Beach Post ^
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004
| Palm Beach Post staff and wire reports
Posted on 04/14/2004 6:02:51 AM PDT by Gun142
Applied Digital working on 'smart gun'
Palm Beach Post staff and wire reports
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
PALM BEACH -- A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.
Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach (Nasdaq: ADSXD, $3.11) announced Tuesday that its VeriChip unit has entered into a memorandum of understanding with gun maker, FN Manufacturing, to develop a "smart gun" that could limit the use of a gun to the owner or an authorized user.
An implantable chip would be injected under the skin of the gun's owner. The chip would then enable the owner to use the gun only after the chip sends a radio frequency to identify him.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; failure; smartgun; smartguns
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There's an idea, plant chips in gun owners.
Unreal.
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:02:51 AM PDT
by
Gun142
To: *bang_list
.
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:03:54 AM PDT
by
Gun142
(Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
To: Gun142
Either the right hand or the forehead,
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:05:19 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Gun142
Cool. How do you fire it weak-handed?
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:05:26 AM PDT
by
brbethke
To: Gun142
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:06:23 AM PDT
by
aomagrat
("Where weapons are not allowed, it is best to carry weapons.")
To: Gun142
They'll have to implant a digital "smart chip" in my dead body.
But first, I'll implant the chip implanting team with lead.
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:07:44 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: brbethke
And what will the gun control freaks say the first (or hundredth) time that a cop is killed because his gun won't fire due to a malfunction?
Oh, well, at least we tried... our intentions were good...
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:08:34 AM PDT
by
MrB
To: Travis McGee
They'll have to implant a digital "smart chip" in my dead body.
Don't worry, I'm sure someone will realize the general public won't be able to identify gun owners simply by looking for their infected hands. You'll be tattooed with KOOK across your forehead first (assuming they get ~that~ far with you).
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:14:10 AM PDT
by
Gun142
(Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
To: MrB
It's for the children.
[barf]
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:15:21 AM PDT
by
Gun142
(Where Will You Be When You Get Where You're Going? -- Jerry Clower)
To: MrB
And what will the gun control freaks say the first (or hundredth) time that a cop is killed because his gun won't fire due to a malfunction? Will Never Happen
Final clause: "The provisions of this Bill do not apply to recognised Federal or State Law Enforcement personnel"
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:21:00 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("Despise not the jester. Often he is the only one speaking the truth")
To: Gun142
Gun owners will be "tattooing" a lot of foreheads first, but not the way people usually think of tattoos.
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:21:58 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Gun142
Don't worry ... it will all be "voluntary"
You know like ....
wearing seat belts or
smoking ...
they just had a 1 for 10 reverse stock split ...
they also own "digital angel" a personal gps system and they develope the technology used to keep track of livestock , there are plans in place to have every animal chiped ..
I think I'll buy a few more shares ....
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posted on
04/14/2004 6:30:03 AM PDT
by
THEUPMAN
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To: Gun142
Criminals can hack a computer program, ATM or a car's computer in seconds.
Do they really think this will stop criminals?
To: Gun142
How long before we would see 'VeriJammer' and 'VeriKey' kits on eBay? RF technology to unlock a gun? No thanks.
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posted on
04/14/2004 7:00:13 AM PDT
by
Sender
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Do they really think this will stop criminals?The short answer in "yes." The long answer is "yes, because they are naive and stupid."
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posted on
04/14/2004 7:00:30 AM PDT
by
AngryJawa
(Thank You Troops!)
To: Gun142
I actually love the idea of a smart gun like in "lost in space" or some what's in "Judge Dredd." We'd program it for me and my wife and our young kids and thiefs are out of luck.
I just don't think the technology is there yet, and implanted chips are the wrong way to go.
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
04/14/2004 7:06:06 AM PDT
by
Sender
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Do they really think this will stop criminals? The average idiot who'd steal a gun? Definitely.
To: Travis McGee
Barbra Boxer and Fienstine have got to be doing back-flips.
To: antiRepublicrat
We'd program it for me and my wife and our young kids and thiefs are out of luck. You would? The point of this chip is to KEEP kids from using your gun.
And you'd implant chips in your kids? Really?
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posted on
04/14/2004 7:14:44 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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