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.
With that technology in place some thug like Holder could 'turn off' our weapons before escorting us and our kids to cattle cars. Sorry Holder - we know you liberal haters - we know who you are ... this has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with control.
My suggestion Holder is this: SOLVE the crime problems in Detroit and on Chicago's south side first - THEN we'll talk about messing with honest citizen's guns...
Methinks one day, possibly in CT, there will be another Lexington/Concord bridge moment.
5.56mm
It’s time for exploring Impeachment of elected members of the Executive Branch, Term Limits for Legislative and same on the Judicial Branch all the way through the USSC. It’s time for exploring shuttering Federal Agencies engaging in acts of subversion against the free citizens of this nations, and The Constitution of The United States. It’s time for exploring the firing of appointed federal officials {aka Presidents Cabinet} violating their oaths of office by encouraging tyranny.
Why don’t they just track down the criminals? 90% of Chicago’s murders are unsolved in spite of there usually being a number of witnesses.
BTTT!
When do the Jews in America get their star to wear on their clothing?
sic semper tyrannis
that’s really interesting. I’d heard something of this.
any cites? [BTW one can now speak of the 13 years of
the 3rd Reich, which at times I’d like to do for euphony]
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