What Are Your Thoughts on Smart Guns?

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Unlocking Safety – Exploring Biometric Gun Technology

Unlocking Safety - Exploring Biometric Gun Technology - Target Sports USA

In the realm of firearm safety, innovation took center stage with unveiling the Biofire Smart Gun last year. Set to revolutionize the industry, this cutting-edge creation promises to redefine gun ownership by integrating advanced biometric features. As pre-orders for the 2025 edition open, the...

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[Jenska22]

if these work as well as the biometric safes, either the dog and toddler will have access, or it won't work fast enough when you need it. JMHO

 

[DarthRevan]

Zero interest.
If vehicles are any indication, computer bits will shit the bed overtime and be costly repairs.
Give me a simple 4 banger (9mm) or V8 (45acp) that just works.

 

[pastera]

Negative interest in any electronic controls on any firearm.

Don't want it and would steer clear of any company with a "smart" gun in their product line.

 

[whatluck]

Yeah lets add a failure condition to a life saving tool.

I really wish this idea would take a drunk drive with Kennedy and crash upside down in a river.

 

[rep308]

I’ve got 40 years in electronic design, computers, network, and control systems. That smart gun was designed by someone not so smart, use it and find the design flaws. I feel the same on self driving cars, home automation and networked appliances. These devises are only as smart as the dumbest design team member.

 

[Cartoons]

[I've said this before]: Prove to me it works.
First, assign it to the Capitol Police that protects members of Congress.
Second: Police Forces around the Country.
Third: The Military
Only then, will I give it careful consideration before finally telling you to F*ck Off.

You do you. No way in hell am I going to use technology that even has the slimmest possibility of being remotely disabled...

 

[vicorjh]

No thanks.

The biometric locks on my phones and PCs are only marginally reliable ... in a pristine environment ... and they've been working on that problem for years.

Hold up folk, give me some time for my pistol to boot ... ah crap, service pack is installing.

 

[Jenska22]

You do you. No way in hell am I going to use technology that even has the slimmest possibility of being remotely disabled...

As good a reason as it is: who needs remotely disabled? Powers out, the battery is dead, and the bad guy is inside the house
People die all the time in the not so boonies, because every day tech fails them (no cell phone service for gps ( oh yeah, and no weather alerts) and the real gps (if they have one) battery is dead.
As for self-driving, just put some pie plates or cones in the road, or paint fake lines; DON'T get me started

 

[Parker Schreiber]

My opinion is simple. Let the market decide. The New Jersey “smart gun” law set back any R&D by 20 years, so I have no idea what’s possible.

 

[Berrymac65]

A solution in search of a Problem
It's a failure waiting to happen.
Soon enough, government will start to regulate this / firearms.
The government ruins everything it touches.
We should all Avoid any company that is pushing this nonsense. Essentially that company is the enemy, it would be a matter of time, until government forces it upon the citizens.

Also, any smart gun is also a dumb gun. If it doesn't work when you need it to at 3am. It is a Failure.
Does it work if the secret ring is in the other room or damaged.
Does it work if your hands / fingertips are sweaty

I wouldn't ever touch a "smart gun"

 

[BTSDOG]

 

[LakeTrout]

Awful idea

 

[drgrant]

The only purpose behind this type of technology is to exist as a "ritz cracker: to drive gun control anybody who cares about their rights needs to shit on it unilaterally until it dies a painful death in the market.

 

[ReluctantDecoy]

Not only is it another point of potential failure, as often mentioned with this type of gun, but digitizing controls of guns opens up pandora's box with regards to removing control from the owner. What if, down the line, your gun could be remote shut off on you? Someone figures out a way to remote fry the circuit board. Or worse, the company making these secretly puts in a wireless backdoor to root. Liberty safe comes to mind.

 

[snax]

Stupid.

 

[DJBrad]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/Y_ZwW98QkiU?si=hfTxczWrl8jmJt1T

 

[Jenska22]

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/Y_ZwW98QkiU?si=hfTxczWrl8jmJt1T

and THEN morning coffeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[DarkJoker33]

 

[jamison55]

“State-of-the-art capacitive fingerprint identification and 3D facial recognition systems independently verify your identity, so your firearm always recognizes you, even if you wear gloves or a face covering.”

Recognizes you in a mask and gloves…

Don’t worry dawg, you can still take down that liquor store .

Someone was NOT thinking when they wrote that text!!!

 

[MaroonedinMA]

That's gonna be a no from me, big dawg.

 

[EJFudd]

Police first...

 

[pastera]

No thanks.

The biometric locks on my phones and PCs are only marginally reliable ... in a pristine environment ... and they've been working on that problem for years.

Hold up folk, give me some time for my pistol to boot ... ah crap, service pack is installing.

Biometrics don't read through contamination.
A wet fingerprint doesn't read change from water to blood and it's worse.

Biometric locks will kill many multiples of the number of law enforcement lives saved from losing control of their weapon.

 

[Palladin]

America's first biometric 'smart gun' is finally here. Will it work?

Biofire is beginning to ship its biometric “smart gun,” which uses fingerprint and facial recognition technology. Now the $1,499 handgun faces a test: Will it work?

www.yahoo.com

In production

 

[kevin9]

Smart gun?
Dumb idea.

 

[levgun]

Like everything else in America with SMART in front of it ( STUPID ) is there an exploding head emoji ?
Sorry sir your gun won't fire until it gets a new software update.
if you did a simple pro's and con's on a white board i think you would run out of white board on the con's side.

 

[lukewarm_fuzz]

Smart guns? I find the idea of a gun that thinks offensive!

 

[GL2020]

What about those of us that have difficulty being fingerprinted?

As someone who works with technology EVERY-SINGLE-DAY, nope. no way....and hell no
Something that works "most of the time" is not good enough.

 

[Bigfudge16]

 

[Kevin_NH]

Call me a technocrat, but I can't get behind the idea that a technology, which some consumers might prefer, should not exist on the basis that future government action might make it mandatory. Or maybe it is just because I live in a state without an adult-user seatbelt law

The only purpose behind this type of technology is to exist as a "ritz cracker: to drive gun control anybody who cares about their rights needs to shit on it unilaterally until it dies a painful death in the market.

The reason (some) anti-gun orgs oppose smart guns is a reason not to be totally opposed to the product existing -- availability may convince soccer moms and others on the fence about having a gun in their home at all to become a first time gun owner.

Yes, this is the "gateway drug" theory -- get the suburbanites hooked on gun ownership, getting new folk going to the range and into completive target shooting is how we avoid having whitebread "gun culture" extinguished.