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Obama and smart in the same sentence is an oxymoron.
Your new obamagun* will hold you at gunpoint and redistribute your wealth down to a point where you qualify and then it will transform into a free obamaphone.
* Authentic nobel prize clad in .25 grams of pure 24k gold included. Just pay separate shipping and handling.
No problem, your friendly Obamacare nurse will implant an RFID (same chip that's already in many credit cards) in your right hand; or for the hand-impaired, forehead.As far as smart guns go, what about people that work around electricity or mechanical devices? They can't safely wear a stupid ring to unlock their gun.
Damn Good article here:
http://www.pddnet.com/blog/2016/05/...?et_cid=5264876&et_rid=%%subscriberid%%&type=
Smart Guns & the Law
Mon, 05/02/2016 - 2:16pm Comments by Karl Stephan, Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Last Friday, President Obama announced a series of actions aimed at making smart guns a reality, rather than a lab curiosity that has never gotten beyond the demonstration stage. A smart gun is one that in principle can be used only by its authorized owner.
If we had a magic smart-gun-making wand that we could wave and thereby grant the beneficences of intelligence and the moral judgment of St. Thomas Aquinas to every gun in the U. S., well, I suppose we would no longer have to worry about any gun being wrongly used ever again. But that would require that guns have more smarts and judgment than the owners, and nobody's expecting the technology to go that far....snip
TFA said:Admittedly, accidental shootings such as the ones involving small children are the most tragic and unnecessary ones. And almost any kind of smart-gun technology would go far to prevent gun accidents involving children who gain access to guns.
But this kind of accident is a small proportion of the annual gun-fatality roll in the United States, making up less than 5% of the 12,000 or so gun-related deaths in 2014.
Look at WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports. I think the "5% of fatal firearms accidents involve small children" claim could be reasonable. See also NSSF fact sheet.Are 5% of (non suicide) gun related deaths really accidents involving small children? (I'm assuming "non-suicide" because he says 12,000, not 36,000/year. That number seems pretty high to me.
Or did he mean "5% are accidents, some of which are children"?
Damn Good article here:
http://www.pddnet.com/blog/2016/05/...?et_cid=5264876&et_rid=%%subscriberid%%&type=
Smart Guns & the Law
Mon, 05/02/2016 - 2:16pm Comments by Karl Stephan, Professor of Electrical Engineering,
Last Friday, President Obama announced a series of actions aimed at making smart guns a reality, rather than a lab curiosity that has never gotten beyond the demonstration stage. A smart gun is one that in principle can be used only by its authorized owner.
If we had a magic smart-gun-making wand that we could wave and thereby grant the beneficences of intelligence and the moral judgment of St. Thomas Aquinas to every gun in the U. S., well, I suppose we would no longer have to worry about any gun being wrongly used ever again. But that would require that guns have more smarts and judgment than the owners, and nobody's expecting the technology to go that far....snip
Look at WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports. I think the "5% of fatal firearms accidents involve small children" claim could be reasonable. See also NSSF fact sheet.
If there’s an app that can help us find a missing . . . iPad, there’s no reason we can’t do it
with a stolen gun.
Although this gets my attention I wouldn't hate having this. As an optional thing on some of my more expensive pieces. Of my own volition and non intrusive installtion.
The 600 million guns already in the country don't become smart, they become [strike=illegal]illegal[/strike] undocumented.What about the 400 million guns we already have legally and the probably 200 million more illegal ones? are those all of a sudden becoming smart too?
This! I will guarantee that each "smart gun" will have a kill switch built in and .gov will hold the master code.
... help you track down your legally and constitutionally owned firearm in the event it gets stolen? I feel certain that must be it.I was thinking they will location devices built in, so the gov can, you know...
What about the 400 million guns we already have legally and the probably 200 million more illegal ones? are those all of a sudden becoming smart too?