Obama to make 'smart guns' push (cops say they don’t want to be guinea pigs)

Politico ^ | 04/28/16 | Sarah Wheaton

[lrdg]

Once again the left is trying to jamb down peoples throats, crap nobody wants nor needs, but will have to pay for.

May they all burn in hell.

[ronnie raygun]

He needs to to pushed out the door

[Graybeard58]

I own guns and my wife has her own guns, I want us both to have easy access to any gun we own.

[sheik yerbouty]

Soujds good to me!

[Iron Munro]

We have a hellish 10 months ahead of us.

That assumes that the pencil-necked, racist, idiot muslim doper doesn’t create a false-flag event and declare martial law before the November election.

[crazyhorse691]

My Samsung smart phone has a thumb scan that worked once in 1 month. Idea sounds good, but, it does not work reliably. Liberals like the idea, but, care nothing about the result.

[Noamie]

A year ago I made a late in life career change and now carry a gun for a living for a state agency working exclusively with convicted felons in the community - alone - without a radio. I, personally, would quit if they went in this direction. This is a failed concept pushed - exclusively - by Antigun radicals.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

They were in the lost and found!

[Trod Upon]

The lame duck jihadist in the White House needs to STFU and prepare to go away. After seven agonizing years America finally gets to hit the flush lever on that stinking turd.

[Ouderkirk]

Test away...but if they think they are going to mandate that I put any such technologies on my existing weapons they are nuts.

[kitchen]

“There’s a legitimate question right now whether smart gun technology will work for policemen” said Stephen P. Teret, a Johns Hopkins University professor ...

Teret is convinced that across society, smart guns’ lifesaving potential likely outweighs the risks.

I want to see this a-hole, packing a smart gun, walk the streets of Chester and Upland, PA at 2:30 A.M. Saturday morning. If that's to tough for him, maybe West Philly.P>

[zeugma]

I would only consider this technology as an option 10 years after all cops and secret service agents had it as non-discretionary equipment.

[zeugma]

I have a "smart" phone. Perhaps you have one too. It has a biometric i d feature, a fingerprint detector . Apple presumably sank zillions into this little feature, and they are among the world's experts at this sort of thing. It is so frustratingly unreliable that I completely abandoned even trying to get the danged thing to work after owning the cellphone for a few months.

That's kinda weird. I use mine all the time, and it works pretty reliably. Do you have a weird case on yours? I know mine wouldn't work when I had one of those bulky cases on it. I've heard similar complaints though, so you are not alone. Perhaps the individual sensors are bad? Could also be that different people have different electrical potentials in their skin. I could see that causing an issue.

[Still Thinking]

If it’s not good enough for the people’s employees, it’s not good enough for the people.

[clearcarbon]

I doubt that Second Amendment enemy obama would even want to be in the same room with a really-smart gun, especially on the day the gun became self-aware.

[GOPJ]

“Police officers in general, federal officers in particular, shouldn’t be asked to be the guinea pigs in evaluating a firearm that nobody’s even seen yet,” said James Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police. “We have some very, very serious questions.”

Since Obama likes it so much - the men who protect Obama, Biden - the First Lady and other democrats should the guinea pigs...

[rellimpank]

--Like the debate on guns broadly, law enforcement leadership, which has been a key ally for gun control advocates, tends to be more open than their underlings to giving smart guns a try.

--that term "underlings" says a lot to me---

[Saint Reagan]

I have no problem with this idea in theory, provided it is optional for the gun owner and not mandated by law. Of course details would need to be provided about how such a technology would work before I would ever decide to use it on my firearms. My capitalist side, however, would prefer the government stay out of the process and allow industry to innovate when the technology and demand are there.