The Smart Gun Doesn’t Exist for the Dumbest Reasons Firearms makers have resisted Silicon Valley-sponsored digital innovation that could transform public safety.

getpocket.com ^ | 4/15/2019 | Austin Carr, Polly Mosendz, Neil Weinberg

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

My gun is already a smart gun. It stays in my holster until I take it out and it doesn’t go off until I pull the trigger. That’s smart enough for me.

[DeFault User]

Smart guns, huh?

Can they take pictures and send texts? How ‘bout ordering a pizza?

[umgud]

My guns have been smart since new. They all do exactly what I direct them to do.

[Seaplaner]

Hmmm, will drug gangs, terrorists, home invaders, and the criminally insane have such weapons?

Of course not.

They are too....

...smart.

[mylife]

I have had a few finicky guns that were less likely to fail than “smart guns”

[Vaduz]

How could the Silicon Valley-sponsored digital innovation make a safe tire iron.

[pas]

John Wyck is totally against this. How can he get out of a jam if he can’t pick up the bad guys guns to continue on?

[mylife]

John Wyck hates smart pencils too.

[JVahey]

I’ll trust a smart gun. When on every corner is a smart traffic light that works 100% of the time

[AAABEST]

Because they're not "smart."

In fact adding another useless system to your weapon that can fail is really, really dumb.

[goodnesswins]

Haha...that made me chuckle....virus ware for it? Haha

[rktman]

Well if it save 150,000,000 lives per year as pedo joe says....

[D Rider]

Don’t want it. Let the cops use them.

[Delta 21]

I prefer Molotov cocktails, thank you very much. Take your high tech crap and shove it up your 3rd point of contact.

[Delta 21]

Kinda like "Gun Control".

[RicocheT]

The so-called smart gun is another red herring argument to take away the right to own and use firearms from honest Americans.

A reliable and working gun has to use well-engineered mechanical parts to function. Put an electronic sensor into the steps to fire it will cause a failure to fire or a misfire, leaving you defenseless. Requiring ever gun owned to be smart also means they will take away your non-smart guns. How smart is the Windows 10 OS on your computer when it insists on slamming in an update when you want to use it?

[USS Alaska]

Nearly half of gun owners in the U.S. would consider buying a smart gun.

If a smart gun is one that can be fired, accurately, at a target of my choice, without me being there, then yeah, I'll buy a coupla dozen.

[BuffaloJack]

Imaging hearing a break in at 2am in the morning.
You reach for your smart gun, only to find that the battery is dead, you quickly try an replace the battery only to discover that it has leaked and corroded everything in the battery compartment.

[umgud]

Yeah, me too.

[VanShuyten]

I would buy smart kitchen knives if only someone would make them.