Same “smart” technology that that lets you log on with your face. First, it is not smart. It’s driven by a program that has no intelligence, but a set of stored values that it compares to the way you look.
Suppose you’re a cop. The gun in your hand may or may not let you shoot the guy shooting at you, who has a gun without “smart” technology. The attacker doesn’t care, and you’re dead.
This is just a sophisticated way for the left to do what they have always wanted to do: take guns from honest, non-violent citizens and deliberately leave them in the hands of violent criminals.
Don’t doubt me.
The simplest and cheapest ‘smart’ technology would be to adapt what high end cars use. Put a RFID chip in a wrist band and a chip in the handgun with a range of about a foot. Gun works fine in the wristband wearers hand. Bad guy gets control of the gun, put your arm behind your back and it won’t work for him.
Didn’t one firearms manufacturer have some sort of electronic trigger/firing mechanism? Haven’t heard about that in years.
Shouldn’t this poll have been taken by Pew-Pew-Pew Research?
I have an electronic homr alarm system.
All the sensors on the windows, doors and the control FOB need small batteries. I really hate it when I push the button to disarm the system only to find that the battery in the FOB is dead and I have to hear the siren when I open the door to get to the control box to turn it off.
If I had a freaking smart gun, I’m pretty sure the battery would be 3 years old and dead when I needed to investigate a noise that sounded like a break-in.
I already got stabbed by a burglar 24 years ago while investigating a noise in the kitchen at 2AM in the morning because I left my shotgun in the closet. I don’t want that to happen again.
There is nothing Smart about a Smart Gun. It is a colossally stupid concept conceived by complete morons.
Here’s a scenario for a smart gun preventing a suicide:
Nutcase grabs gun and points at self. Facial recognition kicks in to examine the nature of the target.
Gun measures pulse rate to determine levelheadedness.
Gun calls 911 to see if a case has been opened; if not, it makes one.
Gun looks up on internet any social media posts deemed iffy.
Gun consults a panel of experts such as Facebook engineers and Snopes writers to vote whether a trigger pull is warranted.
Gun measures battery voltage and determines it’s too low to continue, since it has not been changed recently.
Gun shuts off; a life has been saved. Score one for the history books.
No thanks. People wisely go out of their ways to buy older Smith & Wesson revolvers without the trigger lock, just on the off chance that the trigger lock will engage when it isn’t supposed to. I don’t even want to think about what Señor Murphy will do with a “smart gun” when I need it.
“Smart Guns” are a politicized stunt. If they were intended simply as an option for people who prefer unreliable weapons, I would not mind. Since they are being developed as a mandatory step toward disarming normal, decent Americans, I object strongly.
I hope potential manufacturers and dealers know where shooters stand regarding this product. I will permanently boycott any manufacturer that offers a “smart gun”, and the same for any online or brick-and-mortar store that offers to sell them.
Your smart gun will have a dead battery when you need it the most for the same reason your flashlight is dead after a storm and the electric is out. Nobody replaces batteries unless they are dead. If the battery in your smart gun is dead then you’ll be dead too.
I refuse to have one.