Posted on 04/07/2014 1:49:40 PM PDT by Red Steel
DOJ requesting $2 million for ‘Gun Safety Technology’ grants
Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to “explore” as part of its gun control efforts.
When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee that his agency is looking into technological innovations.
“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.
“By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.”
“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.
The Justice Department has requested $382.1 million in increased spending for its fiscal year 2014 budget for “gun safety.”
Included in the proposal is $2 million for “Gun Safety Technology” grants, which would award prizes for technologies that are “proven to be reliable and effective.”
President Barack Obama’s budget proposal also calls for $1.1 billion to “protect Americans from gun violence—including $182 million to support the president’s ‘Now is the Time’ gun safety initiative.”
A recent innovation allows a gun owner to only unlock a safe with a fingerprint scan and an “RFID-equipped bracelet.”
Others have suggested manufacturing GPS tracking and RFID chips into every gun. RFID chips transmit location data and are used by law enforcement agencies to send automatic alerts if a weapon moves away from the tracker, indicating that the gun is lost or stolen.
Of course they will exempt the JBTs from having “smart gun” technology.
In case any manufacturer or dealer is unsure: I will permanently boycott any business involved in inflicting this on decent Americans.
I wouldn’t object to the voluntary purchase if it stayed voluntary, but this will be (and in some states already has been) mandated for all gun owners, and I doubt that there are more than a few hundred people who actually want this out of over 100 million gun owners - it’s almost exclusively anti-gun thugs who want to inflict this requirement on people they despise. What real gun owner wants a firearm that is less reliable?
Just go into the 'hood and disarm the criminals.
(After you, personally, go into Mexico and recover ALL of the F&F "transfers".)
Chasity Belts.
Bracelets? Doesn’t he mean handcuffs?
How about illegal alien tracking bracelets?
I want to explore 24/7 DOJ tracking bracelets.
You know what ? If all bets are off the table, and they are breaking the contract - Then I want to “explore” some stuff too.
Yeh, Eric thats going to happen. Not!
damn straight.
Same philosophy that’s for sure..
Keep dreaming N word.
Getting all wee wee’ed up, eh?
Next: RFI chips in the earlobes for conservatives, Tea Party members, Christians and other incorrigibles.
**No thanks.
I’d rather not have petty tyrants tracking me everywhere I go.**
Says the guy with a smart phone in his pocket.
People will have their hand cut off to get the bracelet for the gun that is being taken.
This is a really bad idea.
LOL. I have suggested before that these obsessed gun grabbers will make gun owners where an arm band with a blue star on a white background with writing that says "gun owner".
He can take that bracelet and shove it up his ass.
So now I have to wear a frigging bracelet when I’m carrying concealed? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
It’s the Second Amendment Holder, leave it alone.
These crazy ideas will never get through Congress.
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