Fanciful "Smart Gun" Bill Seeks to Make Law Out of Wishful Thinking ("Phasers on stun!")

NRA ILA ^ | 6/12/15

[pabianice]

We all have our hopes for the future. In that regard, we're not so different from Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren (both D-Mass.). Where we're just a little bit different, however, is that while we recognize some people might wish to replace travel by automobiles with on-demand flight via pollution-free unicorns, we're not sure a law to that affect is really necessary. Similarly, while some people might want guns to be designed like "Kitt," the taking car in the David Hasselhoff series "Knight Rider," it takes a special kind of dreamer to turn that dream into federal legislation. Enter the senators from Massachusetts.

On June 3, in conjunction with what they were calling "National Gun Violence Awareness Day," Markey and Warren introduced "the Handgun Trigger Safety Act." Filled with more aspirational, non-existent technology than the North Korean space program, it imagines a future in which guns not only recognize their owners, they apparently deactivate themselves when handled by a legally prohibited person.

[pabianice]

Phasers locked on "stun" available from

Senator Elizabeth Warren

or

Senator Edward Markey

[Sasparilla]

I lost my phaser in a proverbial boating accident.

[submarinerswife]

Idiots.

They have to keep coming for us through the back door since they can’t ban guns all at once and they will not give up. Ever.

[SandRat]

I lost mine in a TSA "feel & grope" at the air port.

[Beagle8U]

Is that a glue gun?

[Alex Murphy]

On June 3, in conjunction with what they were calling "National Gun Violence Awareness Day," Markey and Warren introduced "the Handgun Trigger Safety Act." Filled with more aspirational, non-existent technology than the North Korean space program, it imagines a future in which guns not only recognize their owners, they apparently deactivate themselves when handled by a legally prohibited person.

PFL

[Myrddin]

CA went so far over the line that Ruger decided it wasn't worth further pursuit. The microstamping folly drove them out. The new Ruger LC9s isn't marketed to CA. It is produced without microstamping or loaded chamber indicator. CA is not so critical that a gun manufacturer would be hurt by dropping that market in favor of better products sold to other states.

[telstar12.5]

(running all legal gun sales out of kalifornia IS the idea)

[HammerT]

I lost mine in the vacuum of space - it really sucks.