[45Auto]

The original idea behind the so-called 'smart gun' technology was to prevent criminals from getting cop's guns and shooting the officers with them. When that little chrade fell apart, the emphasis was then shifted to the bogus "gun safety" argument. Now, the morons in the New Jersey legislature have fallen all over themselves passing smart gun legislation, ostensibly for "saftey" reasons, but its really just another thinly-veiled attempt to disarm the citizenry. When will it all end? I can see this crap coming to California in the near future. A pox on those tyrannical bastards. The first time one of these f-ing guns fails to save a citizen's life in a time of crisis, the lawyers will be all over the manufacturer, and this time, rightly so. Smart gun technology is doomed.

[lelio]

So the way this works is that the cop has a transponder that the gun listens to, and if the signal is too weak the gun won't work?
I give that about a week before its hacked. All you need to do is overpower the signal with garbage.

[Hugin]

One could argue that bullets like Glasser slugs are "safer bullets" in that they are deadly when they hit a soft target at close range but fragment when they hit a wall to avoid killiing someone in the house or appartment next door. But somehow I doubt that's what Elders had in mind.

As for "smart guns", that's an idea whose time will never come. In the end, they will cost more lives than they save, in addition to costing a lot more money.

[Travis McGee]

BANG!

[Rodney King]

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[Flint]

Don't we have laws that prevent criminals from taking police officers guns and shooting them with it? I mean, after all, if more gun control laws will work, why not just pass some more "You can't take cops gun." laws? If the Brady bunch is right then the problem would be solved.

[tall_tex]

The smart gun being praised by the lib's is only a step to make "smart guns" legal would be the first step to make all "dumb guns" illegal. Just step one of two.

Thanks for the post.

As a side bar, Vanity, I did my class room and range testing here in Texas for my C&C.

I decided not to send all the information to the state to get my license.

I guess, I did not want to have my name in the government computers as owning a fire arm, "I know tin foil hat thing".

Since 9/11 have spent a lot of time doing battle with myself to get the license.

My question is, if I do, will I have to redo the class, pass the test and re-qualify at the range?

Texas FReepers, with the answers may E me at FReep mail.

Sorry for the vanity. Tom

[MonroeDNA]

"I decided not to send all the information to the state to get my license. "

I know that you (and everyone else) know not to respond to this. I think that was Lon Horiuchi.

[Redcloak]

"What scares me about this, however, is that in following the line of making cars safe, this technology could be required on all new guns," said another officer on CompuServe. "It then follows that the codes for civilian guns could be in one group that could be killed by remote control while law enforcement weapons would be in a secure group. This is the approach used in current two-way radio technology. In the old days, it was always great fun when someone lifted a police two-way and drove everyone nuts until the battery died. The new ones can be killed with a few keystrokes at dispatch. Easy to see how it could be done with guns."

Interesting that someone without a technical background picked up on this. But what should be of more immediate concern to this officer is the possibility that the "remote kill switch" technology could be compromised. It wouldn't be hard to design a transmitter that kills any gun within range of the jammer; police guns included.

[ozzymandus]

So if the cop's battery is dead, so is he. I got a speeding ticket this afternoon, and I'm pretty mad at cops in general, but I still wouldn't want to see them placed in this stupid and dangerous situation by the anti-gun nazis.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"A gun dealer who sells to law enforcement, had this to say, "Colt could solve their problems if they just resurrected the original Agent, Cobra, Detective Special, and Government Models. I don't think they would be able to keep up with the demand for the first 5 years, provided they were the original design -- no product enhancements or other nonsense. I've suggested this to various Colt officials at the SHOT Shows each year, but as someone commented, the bean counters have taken over and all they are concerned with is perceived liability."" (Law & Order Magazine)

I doubt reviving the classic Colt DA revolvers would be profitable. Just way too many barely-"used" ones - without "smart gun" crap - for sale at every show and at gun shops at very-attractive prices that would be the ceiling on what Colt's real retail for a newly-made one could be. The "used" ones could still sell for far more than when bought new in the mid-70s - but would still be very hard to compete against for new ones.

1911s would have to compete against many different clones not plagued with Colt's labor costs - and against the barely-"used" market.

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