Who’s Tierny? What a horribly written article. Oh, Boston Globe, no wonder then.
This’ll never pass.
It’s a non-starter, even in Boston.
In related news, he also offered up a law demanding each citizen get a personal unicorn that shat skittles.
That’s a great idea. Let’s just require it of police, military, and Secret Service for a few years to see how well it works out, and then expand it to private security guards, and then body guards of the rich and famous, then all body guards, and finally the general public.
While we’re at it, let’s require a personalized fingerprint-activated module on all orders to stand down the US military when an embassy (or whatever) is under attack, and on all IRS policies that dictate the political persecution of certain opposition groups, and of course on all orders to wiretap reporters or congressional members. To make sure that no such orders fall into, or get signed by, the wrong hands.
Notice how the left has been using the phrase "common sense" lately? Palin coins it, and the liberals pervert it. But at least I have a new tag line now.
I spent a day undoing the “safety” features of a Ruger 22/45. It’s more usable now and safer now.
A common sense gun safety bill would impose a mandatory death penalty for all criminal homicides and double the prison term for gun-related (as opposed to knife or other weapon) crimes that result in injury.
Hold on to your guns and wallet any time you here a liberal use the term, ‘common sense.’
...but when local police departments start seeing how much this will cost for them to implement, the hue and cry will be amazing.
I wonder if Tierney’s wife is out of jail yet and off probation for laundering her mobbed up brothers drug dealing money. Of course he never knew anything about the millions his wife was handling.
Translation: Tierney was paid a handsom camapaign donation by the producer of this junk tech.
I think the Secret Service and Capital Hill Police should start with this technology. Then, if it works, the FBI, Homeland Security, etc.. should be required to use it. Only after all federal, state and local gov’t entities are happy with it, then it should be required of the hoi polloi.
Another Congressman seeking recognition by promoting flawed and unsafe technology. I’ll bet this guy backed all the green energy loans as well and somehow profited by their failure.
It doesn't work when you need it, and it can only be fired by one person.
[[Manufacturers that do not meet the standards could be held liable.]]
IF enough manufacturers and sellers decided to band together and refuse to ocmply- they could stop this madness
(rewritten for clarity)
The bill, the Magical Handgun Safety Act of 2013, mandates within two years that newly manufactured handguns be equipped with the magic that allows the guns to only work in the hands of their owners or other authorized users.
Manufacturers that do not meet the standards could be held liable. And individuals or businesses selling older handguns must have them retrofitted with magic within three years after the bill is enacted, at the expense of the federal government.
A new branch of the BATF&E will be in charge of enforcing this new law, so will now be called the Firearms, Explosives and Ammunition Registrar, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Magic And Necromancy.
Or FEAR-BATMAN.
If I had to buy one, I would weld/superglue/attach the secret decoder ring to the most convenient part of the weapon, or preferably manually disable it. I do not want a feature that disables my means of self-defense. It’s simply a tax on firearms to price the poor out of the market, although it will just price them out of the market for legal firearms. Citizens of Massachusetts no longer have a legitimate government, so there is no moral obligation to obey their laws, just a moral obligation to avoid getting caught.
I might give Bloomie credit for having the most stupid idea of all time regarding this issue if not for this one. I remember wondering at the time if he had any idea of how many bullets are made and sold every year, or how little space there is on a .17" diameter bullet, or even a.22" diameter bullet, on which to encode a unique marker of some kind that would identify that one bullet out of the multiple billions, or maybe even more, that are made in many countries around the world every year. And that's not to even mention the uncountable trillions of shotgun pellets that are as deadly en masse as an individual bullet. Perhaps this proposal will be a possibilty by let's say, oh, another 25 years or so, or maybe not even then.