TAURUS working with NJIT on "Smart Gun"

Taurus International website ^ | June 27, 2002 | Taurus International

[dbwz]

Taurus International partners with the New Jersey Institute of Technology in a "Personalized Weapons Technology" research and development project.

(for detailed information on this project, please follow this link to the New Jersey Institute of Technology report at www.njit.edu)

(MIAMI, FL, June 27) Taurus International Manufacturing, Inc. announced today that it has partnered with the prestigious New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (www.njit.edu), in the pursuit of "Personalized Weapons Technology", sometimes erroneously referred to as "Smart Gun Technology", which will provide user identifiable firing controls for firearms. The NJIT has been working on this project for some time.

[MonroeDNA]

Their fax number in Miami is 305-623-7506.

Couldn't find an email adx on their website.

[yooper]

A gun is only as "smart" as the person holding it....

[jwalsh07]

The police are exempted because if the technology fails the officer dies. Whether you die or not is irrelevant to liberal politicians.

Look for Taurus to get a sweetheart deal exempting them from lawsuits when their technology fails and the good guy gets whacked by the bad guy because the good guy had some grease on his hand and the gun didn't recognise him as a good guy.

[jwalsh07]

"Smart" guns are regressive. The guy busting his hump for low wages can't afford the technology. So, either he buys his gun on the street or McGreevey makes his second amendment right to expensive for him to afford.

[Hugin]

Just because you disagree with a law does not mean that it is unconstitutional, liberals make the mistake of believing that what they believe is right equates with what the Constitution says.

True, but in this case it is. The Second Ammendment is very clear, and banning certain kinds of guns does "infringe" on it. The Supreme Court simply has avoided ruling on it at all since Miller over 65 years ago. For policial reasons I assume. That has allowed the government to pass and enforce laws that violate the 2nd without the court actually having to rule that there is not an individual RKBA.

[gundog]

True...but Taurus has no interest in those that don't buy guns; only in those that do.

A friend of mine has a rule: never pay more than $200 for a gun...and there are some damn good ones that qualify.

[Objectivism USA]

Requiring "smart gun technology" is going to be tuff to challenge as an infringement because it allows all current weapons to continue in civilian hands and it makes no infringement on any type or caliber as long as the weapon has the required "safety" feature.

One argument might be equal protection if it prices the poor out of the market but since the guns are not available yet we don’t know.

The second argument would be its unreliability or vulnerability to an external attack that would render the weapon useless. If the technology works this argument won’t apply either.

Until the guns are on the market everyone is going to have to wait and see.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Maybe Taurus is using their noggin: "Keep your friends close and you enemies closer."

[dbwz]

New Jersey’s law is a bad law but you are going to have to change it in the appropriate venue, which is the legislature, not the overreaching courts.

Well, we certainly tried that route - I and several others held protests, wrote letters to papers, and testified before committees.

The problem is that legislatures everywhere have abandoned any constitutional litmus test; that's why this law was passed and laws like it will continue to be passed. I'm not for courts making new law, but I am for courts upholding the rights we were born with.

The Supreme Court has the ability to step in where two circuit courts are at odds.

[dbwz]

Unfortunately, Taurus has made it impossible to contact them from their webpage.

I did notice that, and I know I looked for a long time to try to find ANY contact info. I'm sure someone will post it if they find it.

[dbwz]

Tell ya what, the politics aside, I might be interested in such a firearm, for some safety reasons.

I don't object to the technology at all, and I do believe some people will find it's right for their situation. It's being forced to use it that I have the big problem with.

[TN4Liberty]

Then why criticize Taurus for developing the technology? NJ is the problem, forcing people to accept the technology, not Taurus.

Should we abandon Ford and GM for developing cars that meet California emission standards we may disagree with?

[verity]

I won't buy another Taurus.

I never have liked FORD products. :~)

[Objectivism USA]

Read reply # 27 to Hugin.

[kako]

Maybe Taurus is using their noggin: "Keep your friends close and you enemies closer."

Yeah, they're using their noggin to head-butt the 2nd Amendment into the dustbin of history.

[timestax]

I don't think it would ever work, as it would have to work instantly in the rain, snow,frost, sleet,condensation, muddy dirty grimey sweaty hands, etc, have to work on a battery which will run down, wife may have to use husbands gun to shoot home invader coming at her with his own "stolen gun" etc. Gun owner with bandaids on thumb/fingers from working on car, etc.

[timestax]

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[boris]

"A friend of mine has a rule: never pay more than $200 for a gun...and there are some damn good ones that qualify."

Well, hell, I just spent $700 on a Ruger Super Red Hawk in .480.

I take it the message is "only buy used weapons", and I understand that.

But I wanted a (brand-new) toy.

OK, I won't buy Taurus (had one of their revolvers once, not bad but not great) and I've sworn off S&W (don't care who owns them now, don't care how sorry they are; I simply won't buy another S&W--at least new).

--Boris

[PatrioticAmerican]

Tthink about it. Taurus is probably getting a pile of money to do this. They work on it, while demonstrating to those liberal nutcases in NJ that the technology is not viable. They get NJ to drop the law. It's called staying in the loop.

I work with the government at the highest levels. I, and many others, do such things all the time. I work on projects that I know are stupid in order to help prove they are stupid and shut them down. Of course, we get paid big bucks to show them what can and cannot be done, and we get the final results we actually wanted in the first place.