Colorado-based Biofire Tech is taking orders for a smart gun enabled by facial-recognition technology, the latest development in personalised weapons that can only be fired by verified users.
Kai Kloepfer fires a prototype of the Biofire weapon at the shooting range of the company's Colorado headquarters© Provided by The Telegraph
But in a sign of the long, challenging road that smart guns have faced, a prototype twice failed to fire when demonstrated for Reuters this week.
Kai Kloepfer, the company founder and chief executive, said the software and electronics have been fully tested, and the failure was related to the mechanical gun which was made from pre-production and prototype parts.
At other times during the demonstration the weapon fired successfully and the facial-recognition technology appeared to function.
Biofire’s gun can also be enabled by a fingerprint reader, one of several smart gun features designed to avoid
accidental shootings by children, reduce suicides, protect police from gun grabs, or render lost and stolen guns useless.
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US ‘smart gun’ which opens with facial recognition fails during demonstration