Posted on 05/03/2016 6:24:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
With yet another push from President Obama to revive initiatives to develop “smart gun” technology, it looks like it’s time to revisit the issue once again.
The most common question I got in response to my previous piece on the many problems with smart guns is, “even if you’re correct that smart guns are a bad idea, why is the NRA so opposed to letting the market even try to get it right?”
The NRA’s official position is that they don’t care one way or the other about smart gun tech, and that the market should decide, but we all know that’s baloney. The NRA doesn’t want smart guns to ever reach the market, at all.
So the question is, why? If smart guns as doomed to fail as I’ve previously argued, why not just let them fail in the market? Why try to prevent this technology from even having a chance?
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What will a electromagnetic pulse do?
He raises a good point. It’s impossible for the market to renounce smart guns in the present political climate, because we all know Democrats will subsidize the smart gun industry with our tax dollars while telling liberals to purchase them in bulk. Then they can say “hurr durr the American people want smart guns, let’s ban other guns” and have plenty of morons lap up their logic.
The issue with smart guns is that they actually would cause more guns to be in households
If my gun can only be fired with my finger prints are a match on the grip then my wife would have to have her own gun. We could not have a single weapon jointly
They won’t care how many guns you have if they can remotely disable them.
The Colt 45’s used in Westworld were “smart” guns but malfunctioned and killed people.
They can be tracked and jammed. No thanks.
“why is the NRA so opposed to letting the market even try to get it right?”
Because you can’t. It’s a basic problem of engineering:
Machines will fail. Engineers can design the machine to tend to fail one way, reducing the chance of failing another way. In the case of firearms, the legitimate user expects that the device absolutely will fire when wanted (as innocent lives will be on the line). The whole point of “smart guns” is to add complexity to this, making paramount that it won’t fire unless verified. The problem is that such a system inherently fails by not firing when existential critical that it does.
In short: you can’t build a fail-proof system. Customers aren’t going to buy a gun that might not go bang when they absolutely need it to.
No “smart gun” is smarter than my well trained, smart brain. Period.
As long as we live in a world where a millimeter of barrel length separates a highly restricted “short-barreled rifle” from a regular rifle, and where a plastic gun handle is willfully misidentified as a dangerous aid for mass killers — in other words, where people who know zero about firearms nonetheless continue to design them through legislation — smart gun technology will be a bona fide existential threat to non-smart-guns, and people who don’t want to buy smart guns will do everything they can to strangle the technology in the cradle.
Fact. And given that the most widely available "smart" gun is, at the moment, a $2000 .22 pistol, and legislators in New Jersey (and elsewhere) are salivating at the prospect of making that the only firearm able to be purchased in that state, you have an impasse.
I want my “smart gun” to also play iTunes, special effects sounds, and have an emergency message button. Should I need it and it fails, I think the special effects might come in handy to throw the bad guy(s) off stride long enough to fix the failure. If not, perhaps a 9-1-1 button will send a message as to where to pick up my dead or broken body.
He does touch on that at 6:40 in this interview with Bill Frady
Here is why anyone with a brain hates “smart guns”. (Note that immediately rules out at least 2/3 of all liberals)
Smart guns are complicated. And they will fail when you need them most.
That is pretty much it. I don’t care how “reliable” they make them. It is guaranteed that it will not fire at some point when you really, really, REALLY need it to.
Yep, smart gun technology will add many hundreds of dollars to all guns and make them unaffordable by most Americans. Which is exactly what they want.
Fed agents / leos do too. They don’t want ‘em either.
I first bought one because it was what state cops were using. I figured i couldnt go wrong with what they had.
Smart gun = Renewable resources
Just another money pit for government funding for an idea that will be mandated in the attempt to make it financially feasible. Easier to fight it before it gets a foothold.
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