'Smart Gun' Still Hasn't Hit Mark

Newhouse News ^ | 4/27/2008 | Rick Hepp

[Incorrigible]

 

The gun grabbers don't really care if the gun is smart or not.  They want to confiscate them all!

 

[Da Coyote]

Questions to ask:
1) Does it involve technology/mathmatics/science?
2) Do liberals approve of it?

If yes to both, run like hell. Liberals and technology do not mix. Think about it...English or eduction degrees and global warming. Political science degrees and economics. QED.

[Da Coyote]

Questions to ask:
1) Does it involve technology/mathmatics/science?
2) Do liberals approve of it?

If yes to both, run like hell. Liberals and technology do not mix. Think about it...English or eduction degrees and global warming. Political science degrees and economics. QED.

[infantrywhooah]

So if they get them to work reliably, I guess the government will have to confiscate all those millions of “dumb” guns that pose such a grievous threat to the public safety.

[Still Thinking]

"We know that gun manufactures have already developed these technologies, they just don't want to put them in guns," he said. "The National Rifle Association doesn't want them to do it."

If they're saying gun makers don't want to try to sell something their customers don't want, that's probably correct, but that's as it should be. It's their job as a seller to sell what I, the buyer, want, not my job to alter my expectations to what they've been ordered to push on me by some third party who hates their product anyway (See Microsoft, Vista, RIAA; also Staples, recycled paper).

If, OTOH, they're saying rational companies spend megabucks developing ultimately successful technologies that their market wants so they can refuse to sell them, they need to attend a rememdial econ course.

[goldstategop]

Gun banners don't want to make guns more effective. They want to ban them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Squantos]

Agree 100% !!

Note all these idiots pushing this crap fire and work in clean controlled environment of a range......:o)

And they want their troopers to pack that crap ?

What a joke these bean counting bureaucrats are...... I will say this . One of travel guns where I may cross into a state or city etc where a blue gun with 3 rounds is illegal I pack a SW 696 44 Special that has the magnatrigger modification. My effort too never exceed the BS grabbers local ordinances.........

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I guess the government will have to confiscate all those millions of “dumb” guns that pose such a grievous threat to the public safety.

Over my, and several gun grabbers, dead bodies.

I'll never carry a weapon I can't repair myself nor one that could potentially carry a pacification circuit that would allow the state to turn my weapon off at will.

[facedown]

He said it would take "about two years of steady effort with proper funding'' to develop a working smart gun prototype.

And guess who pays.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***If it does — bang! — the gun fires. If not — click — nothing happens.***

The most frightning sound in the world when your life is on the line.

[Tallguy]

The credit card machines look at how shoppers sign their name — how hard they press the pen and the tempo of their signature — and not actual signatures. The "smart gun'' uses sensors to measure how a person pulls the trigger.

The gun has one-tenth of a second to decide. In that blink of an eye, the circuitry must receive millions of pieces of data from 16 pressure sensors in the weapon's grip, compare them to stored images of how authorized users of the weapon squeeze the trigger and decide if the two match.

What's the worst that can happen if a credit card machine rejects a legitimate signature? OK, now what's the worst thing that can happen when you pull your smartgun in a defensive situation? This is why 99% reliability isn't good enough.

[backhoe]

Abort?
Retry?
Fail?

Gives new meaning to "the blue screen of death," doesn't it?

[Let's Roll]

“OK, now what’s the worst thing that can happen when you pull your smartgun in a defensive situation?”

And it’s not like in the pressure of a defensive situation, you might ‘pull’ faster, more spastically or anything, right?

[Doomonyou]

If it does — bang! — the gun fires. If not — click — nothing happens.

This is wrong. There will be no "Click" of a firing pin banging into an empty pipe, it'll just be time to either grab your "real gun" back up, or kiss your ass goodbye.

[Doomonyou]

And it’s not like in the pressure of a defensive situation, you might ‘pull’ faster, more spastically or anything, right?

Or have sweat, blood, dirt, grease, etc. on your hands.

[Doomonyou]

ISo if they get them to work reliably, I guess the government will have to confiscate all those millions of “dumb” guns that pose such a grievous threat to the public safety.

It will be a gun buy-back, turn them in, wait 30 days and we'll get our replacements in the mail. Of course they won't work, but that's the idea.

[Candor7]

I have a programable glove machine that can retreive the data out of the smart gun, enter it into my computer driven glove machine, and I can make a glove that when worn, will make the gun fire.

And not only that, Folks will pay 10 thousand dollars for one of these programable guns, instead of 1000 dollars for a colt python in 357 magnum. ( sarc.) I figure my glove machine will make big bucks.

Great stuff.

[dbwz]

And they want their troopers to pack that crap ?

LEO's will be exempt, along with federal employees and military. As usual.

[Squantos]

Well that sucks pond water now doesn’t it ........:o(

Stay safe !

[DMZFrank]

Or due to an injury that you just sustained in the course of the emergency!!!