Posted on 07/07/2018 8:10:16 AM PDT by Zakeet
As someone who would really like to own a gun for protection, etc., but is terrified that one of my VERY smart grand-kids (2 of whom live with me) would somehow get a hold of it(no matter how well hidden/locked), I sorta like the idea of fingerprint verification.
But I understand many of the pitfalls involved ... and now adding your reason to my list.
Good guys, bad guys,at this point what difference does it make?
Insanity.
You forgot drug test.
The ultimaate dream of the gun grabbers. Somewhere years ago I read that ONCE there is a working “smart” gun all states will have to impose these restrictions. Today I have not bothered to check on that, but I know it was something from the not too distant past.
It would probably be easy to convince Ted the crackhead that a pistol that works like a mood ring has been invented and will solve the problem.
By all means, add a Drug Test in. Once a month. Must take a leak in an cup, provide a DNA sample, AND a hair sample.
In order to have the HONOR of being a Public SERVANT and on the Taxpayer’s Dole.
Time to smack these assclowns back into their proper places.
Could be, but I don’t think the “governor” on a legally purchased gun is going to make a difference. It’ll just make the street sold Saturday night special a premium product and they will flood the country from oversees especially through Mexico and Canada.
And arbitrarily shutting down a weapon and being wrong as to its intended use from attack to protection without being there is an open invitation to a lawsuit and public humiliation of the overkill you talk about. It would be political suicide and put back their efforts to get guns out of the hands of “honest” people a long way. I don’t think they are that stupid (but in this topic I’ve been surprised before).
rwood
Thank you. But doesn’t it seem redundant to establish a tort claim or law that agrees with common sense? A gun has no brain, no nervous system, and no feelings either way. It is a tool. It serves a purpose that is defined by it’s use only by the user. To have to save harmless companies that make them when the first recorded use was in the 14th century and they were all over Europe in 1380, over 100 years before Columbus got here, to stop people from trying to cheat people, is disheartening. This is anti-liberal law making. We’ve got an infestation of them in this country. Sure is a waste of time and money.
rwood
"...There likely won’t be door to door confiscation, but anyone owning a ‘dumb gun’ after the law is passed will be deemed a felon if police find such a gun on them or in home or whatever when police are investigating other crimes or pull someone over..."
Speaking as a gun-owning parent, who has owned since the oldest was a baby, and where all my kids have gone to adulthood without a gun mishap, the key is training. If you are willing to take the kid to the range anytime he or she wants, then there is much reduced temptation.
That, and ALWAYS keeping things locked up AND on a high shelf when not actually on my person. And my personal, unwavering policy is that there is never anything more important than securing my sidearm when I'm done wearing it. It goes from my holster to the safe. Always.
PRECISELY. The Left is patient, very patient. There WILL NOT BE A ‘Mulin Rouge’ moment, or whatever the “Cold Bare Hands” moment is expecting.
No one is going to stand in The Mall, in front of the Capitol Monument with a Starter’s Pistol and fire it, signalling all those ‘Survivalists’ to SUIT-UP in their Camos, strap over their AR’s, load up the mags, put on the belt with the 9mm’s, and march on DC, to burn it down.
Nope...just a simple gun ‘buyback’ is how it starts, and for those who ‘choose’ not to play, their guns become illegal, and they better think REALLY HARD before taking them to the range, or, even worse, using them to defend their families.
That’s how it starts...then show-trials and jail sentences, and it continues.
"...then show-trials and sentences..."
Link a couple of databases and you can then target specific cars by reading their license plates as they approach.
Moulin Rouge won’t do it, there won’t be a mass uprising against the feds...nothing close. They’ll just take us down, one at a time...once the laws are in place to do so.
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