Posted on 04/29/2016 12:05:05 PM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — President Obama will use the power of his office to push for adoption of so-called smart gun technology that could eventually limit the use of a firearm to its owner, the White House announced Friday morning.
The move is intended to allow Mr. Obama to confront firearms violence in the face of fierce opposition to broader gun control measures. But critics of smart gun technology, including some police officials, are expected to fight a proposal that they see as unproven and an unwarranted restriction on the freedom to use firearms.
The initiative was unveiled on the White House website, along with a report from the administration’s law enforcement agencies concluding that the government should do more to spur development of the technologies. To that end, the Defense and Justice Departments will develop criteria for gun manufacturers who want to sell smart guns to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
The administration will also offer cash prizes and grants to gun manufacturers to spur development of the technology, which is intended to make a gun useless if someone other than the owner tries to fire it.
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The Big ZERO can shove it.
FUBO -— this insane, liberal, gun-suppressing idea has already been debunked..more than once.
Voter ID cards for the first amendment if we’re gonna have smart gun tech.
So, if I want to hand off to one of my kids during a home invasion, the gun won’t work for them.
0bummer can take the 7 months he has left and put them where the sun don’t shine.
No sale.
It will be a cold day in he!! before I buy any of this kind of crap. There isn’t anything “smart” about them. Give them to the criminals Obonzo put back on the streets. Free “Obamaguns”! Responsible, law abiding Americans don’t need them.
The President is not empowered to create law.
The anti-gunners want to force electronically-controlled smart guns on us so the Fed.gov can turn them OFF with the flick of a switch! No need to confiscate them then!
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Let's see which manufacturers go for the "government goodies" ..... they of all people should know this is going to be a flop & most gun owners will not be buying such guns (even the police, etc. aren't that thrilled about them either). If you want to read something "interesting", read THIS to see what some of the issues are/could be with 'smart guns':
Thank God he only weighs about 150lb.
This one thinks he is, and tells anyone else to go to hell.
No sale is right. I’ll continue to carry my stupid Sig.
His Royl Swineness should direct his Secret Sergice gusrds to use them
Let him put up or shut up!
Hey Barack, let’s get one thing straight. Do you actually believe that you ae the final authority when it comes to self defense and guns? You couldn’t fire an employee or a military officer efficiently. Here’s the crux of the matter. You would NEVER subject any secret service member to be issued a smart gun. Your life would be in jeopardy wouldn’t it. There’s thousands of us gunsmiths in this country that would ever agree to smart gun technology. I think I speak for many gunney’s.
“Smart technology” is a dodge to make any firearm almost completely inoperable. There are so many interlocks that are supposed to make the mechanism responsive only to a certain order of authorizations, that the least malfunction just shuts the operation down altogether.
Handguns have evolved from old flintlock muskets, that were individually reloaded between firings, from a supply of powder and a lead ball rammed down the muzzle, and firing from a relatively unreliable spark struck by a spring-loaded lever flying forward, hitting a piece of flint against a metal strike plate, that was supposed to ignite a mound of gunpowder in a pan, and the ignition was to travel to the charge of gunpowder in the gun barrel.
Misfires were pretty frequent, and frankly, it may be necessary to resort to a sword or dagger if the enemy was about to overrun your position.
The invention of breach-load of a pre-assembled cartridge with the projectile, the powder load, and the percussion cap, made the musket into a sort of primitive shotgun, still not especially reliable, but deadly when the projectile did hit something. The rifling of the interior bore helped to make the lead projectile easier to control and aim more accurately. The further refinement of the breach-load to allow the ejection of the spent cartridge and the reload of a fresh cartridge through a semi-automatic mechanism that used part of the gas pressure from the previous discharge to power its action, and the recocking of the trigger, made the hand-carried firearm a much more potent and deadly instrument of hand-to-hand combat.
Now the plan is to make each of these steps subject to some kind of review function, before moving to the next step. I see where the complexity would quickly leave the sidearm completely inoperable if there is the least variation in the protocol, and the bearer of the said modified weapon is subject to death before the series of go/no-go decisions are completed.
Kind of right back with the muzzle-loaded flintlock musket.
What does an EMP do to a smart gun?
I can see, that in order to implement this so-called ‘smart’ technology, the mulatto-queer-in-charge just might have to find a way to make all currently owned ‘dumb’ firearms illegal.
That means that every snub-nosed revolver out there would be rendered illegal!!!
For me?
That ain’t gonna happen!!
ALL of my inventory will be WORKING 100 years after “smart guns” have died.
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