[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.........

[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.

[backhoe]

Abort?
Retry?
Fail?

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

[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.

[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.

[supercat]

If these technologies actually worked, they would be of greater benefit to cops than to most other citizens. Cops, after all, are often required to get within grabbing distance of suspects, whereas concealed-carry holders would instead do everything possible to stay away.

Actually, though, even better than a “smart gun” would be a “smart holster”. Such a device could be equipped with a variety of release methods, many of which would not be practical on a gun. Further, because a holster is not subject to the same g-forces as a gun, it would not be as prone to damage.

Still haven’t seen any law-enforcement push to equip themselves with such things, though.

[rmh47]

The controversial law, aimed at reducing the number of children killed by handguns through accidents, suicide or acts of violence...

If this is the purpose of the law, then it won't work, even if the technology is perfected.

A gun is a mechanical device. With sufficient time, a screwdriver, and maybe a file, the safety device can be deactivated.

[The KG9 Kid]

From the same liberals who insist that anyone with a file can illegally turn a semiautomatic AK full automatic in just a few minutes, they expect that no-one will be able to disable the batteries in a 'smart gun' and circumvent the biometric mechanism.

Liberals are just retarded. They don't even know how to change the oil in their hybrid car. They're being obtuse on purpose. They don't give a damn about 'smart gun' technology. This is just a gun ban.

[wastedyears]

***Lt. Carol Ellis, of the New Jersey Institute of Technology Police, demonstrates a gun programmed only to fire when she pulls the trigger. (Photo by John Munson)***

I know my brain is slipping. But this...

I just can’t describe it.

[Jonah Hex]

"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."

Yeah. Riiiight. And GM is sitting on the patents for a water-fueled car which gets 100 mpg, and the WTC was an inside job.

(sigh)

Idiots.