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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Smart guns, electromagnetic pulse, and planning for unknown-probability dangers
Yes,,,, I’ll make it. You sent me an answer that is a joke’.
In other news, Obama is working on legislation banning door lccks so criminals won’t fell “stigmatized.”
And surprisingly, a lot of automotive electronics is pretty well shielded. And some consumer electronic equipment. I would expect a tablet not connected to the power mains to survive an EMP, just laying on a wood table.
I hope President Trump does something to make this little traitor pay for what he has done to our country.
When the trigger is depressed, on comes the recording of the helpful customer service rep:
"If your life is in imminent danger, press one"
"If your leg is being chewed into hamburger by an aggressive dog, press two"
If you are stoned, high or otherwise incapacitated and just want to light up the 'hood, press 3"
Why not the "smart gun"?
Any gun manufacturer involved with this will be permanently boycotted by me and by as many decent people as I can convince. With the thugs planning to mandate unreliable firearms for everyone once one is marketed, researching any “Smart Gun” is unforgivable.
obama is a toothless and on-the-way out figure.
This is simple nonsense.
On the other hand, if Hillary is elected, this will look like halcyon days by comparison.
just wait until conservatives retake both houses, then we will show them....
The GOP-e cannot get the K Street spoon out of their mouths to care about anything.
It is over people.
Well, thank goodness. We couldn't have wished for a more air-headed lightweight, so nothing will get moved.
He is irrelevant and he is a LIGHTweight anyway.
Those with machining tools and the ability to run them will reinvent the do it yourself in the firearm business if ohbozo keeps the monkeying antics up. Just saying.
That is what his Ego weighs, any thing else is just empty space.
There are only two places for any gun I own. It is either in my direct physical possession, or it is locked in a secure safe. I would never rely on any “Smart Gun” technology to secure a gun to the point where I would keep it any other way. So the Smart Gun technology does absolutely nothing to keep my guns safer, and introduces additional modes of failure for me.
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