[Paine in the Neck]

This is not a Second Amendment issue. Them carrying has nothing to do with rights. They carry on behalf of the government, often well outside gun laws. Open carry for one. For most of us, exercising rights doesn’t exist on the job.

Do you not understand that once one of these electronic firearm control/tracking technologies is made to work in any venue, whether law enforcement, military or whatever, it is only a matter of a short while before it is required for all firearms? This has nothing to do with police other than they are a convenient justification for the developer to get paid by the taxpayer while gaining a politically justifiable testbed. If his technology proves viable do you not think he'll have lobbyists swarming every legislature in the country to get his technology mandated for every firearm? Camel's nose. Tent. Don't you get it?

[LevinFan]

“Do you not understand that once one of these electronic firearm control/tracking technologies is made to work in any venue, whether law enforcement, military or whatever, it is only a matter of a short while before it is required for all firearms? This has nothing to do with police other than they are a convenient justification for the developer to get paid by the taxpayer while gaining a politically justifiable testbed. If his technology proves viable do you not think he’ll have lobbyists swarming every legislature in the country to get his technology mandated for every firearm? Camel’s nose. Tent. Don’t you get it? “

I think you are reaching there. The practicality issues of such technology would make such general use impossible. It would alert simply for drawing a weapon? How many guns would be extra clean? And a battery powered device would have little value, as all you’d do is let the battery die.

This is not going to have much civilian applications. But it’s LE applications are considerable. A cop fires his weapon automatically alerts to a shooting event. And if it tracks when he draws it, then it can be used to reign in the abusers who like to threaten people with a gun. Also, it will likely go through the car’s repeater to limit excess battery usage.

The hazards of this technology are minimal. Yes, it can be abused, much like a lot of technology. But we can’t freeze ourselves in the 90’s or 80’s out of fear of using technology.