They should do a test run of this program in Chicago and Detroit.
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I read somewhere that they are considering using similar technology in a steering wheel of a car to determine the alcohol content in your skin perspiration. Therefore, if you decide to drive drunk, the car won't start if it senses alcohol in your skin. (and you would need skin contact to start the car, so no gloves).
I'm not a gun owner, but I have kids and would be more worried about a gun accidentally going off if I owned a gun while they were around. Even suicide by teens would be greatly decreased if smart guns were used. I would think, just for safety reasons, it makes since.
BTW, anyone see Skyfall? 007 would've been toast without his smart gun. We'd have no more James Bond films.sigpicComment
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responsible gun ownership
there is a school of thought (to which i subscribe) that there are no accidental discharges of guns- when a gun fires un-intentionally it is pure negligence. it is the responsibility of gun-owning parents to educate their children sufficiently to avoid such negligence. if the parents fail, the negligence becomes theirs. conversely, if my well-trained 13 y/o daughter needed to use my gun in my absence, such a lock system would make the gun useless.
haven't seen skyfall but i can refute the idea presented with another movie reference- Revenge of the Sith, Order 66. what is to say the technology to make a "smart gun" wouldn't include a blanket disabling code?
lastly, and to make myself sound like a heartless bastard let me say arguments involving guns and suicide are a non-starter. let all the quitters quit, ASAP. it is not anyone's place to obstruct another in this matter.Comment
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I'm so sick of gun quarreling.
Here's a husky puppy instead
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What does 100% effective mean to you? To me, it means pull the trigger, gun goes bang.
So yea, if 100% effective, I'm all for it. This could potentially save lives in more ways than one.
Also, I never said anything about a mandate. I am never for regulations that remove ones ability to make decisions regarding their own "safety".
As a product, hell yes I'd buy it.No E30 ClubOriginally posted by MrBurgundyComment
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I could see some practicable uses such as a home owner with kids. Maybe they should make it like a car lock, you use a bio-encryption to arm/disarm the trigger, then at the range anybody can use it, then lock it when your done. As far as gun-control in the criminal sense I think its a waste of time, they need to focus more on getting the guns out of criminals hands, than trying to make it harder for the law abiding citizens to obtain.I have friends who are EOD bro.
That's awesome. I have friends who make coffee for a living, but you don't see me rocking out a bunch of lattesComment
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"People tend to only pay attention to gun safety issues after these mass killings but this is happening all the time to our children and it's totally preventable," Sauaia said. "Are we as a society willing to accept that 2 percent of our children shot each year is an acceptable number?"
2 out of every 100 children are shot each year?sigpic
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1988 325 SETA 4DR Parted.
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I grew up around firearms. I never shot myself.
Then again, my father actually shot his guns, and included me. I was taught proper firearm safety from a young age, to the point that I was left to clean and put away the guns after each trip to the range. (Woods).
Oh how did I survive? Education. If you expose your kids to guns, teach them about them, you eliminate the curiosity that may drive them to go get daddies gun when he's not home.
Then, even if they do they won't kill their friend.No E30 ClubOriginally posted by MrBurgundyComment
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Apples and oranges. putting it in that light is fucking retarded.
I actually WANT a gun that would only operate in my own hands. I also want a cam that would record anything it's pointed at whenever it's enabled. Just like a car dashcam. This has nothing to do with any past, current, or future legislation. It's just a smarter way to protect yourself.
Technically speaking, I don't trust fingerprint ID tech. I think an RF tag imprinted in my hand would be much more reliable. And hopefully I can dump all my keys with that too. You tin foil hat guys can blow it out your ass. This is about making my life more convenient, and I'm the one in control of it. It's not some mandated thing.sigpic
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Look at this e30~
it is a pretty normal left hand drive vehicle with two built in anti-theft features: It has a 5 speed manual transmission and a key.
If I were knocked unconscious while merrily doing whatever I merrily do, and my dearest girlfriend needed to drive me to the hospital in my car... could she do it?
At that point the key and manual transmission just become a negative safety feature.
I might die if she cant find the key, and cant figure out how to use a clutch.
Flip this to guns.
If I just got shot opening the front door (which, I know, is extremely improbable and hardly ever ever happens) and she is in the bedroom fumbling to open the safe, fumbling to load a magazine, fumbling to remove a trigger lock, fumbling to figure out how to turn the safety off and cock the thing (is cock the right word here?), and then, after all that taking about 10 minutes, woops her fingerprints don't match mine so poof we both go straight to heaven.
A safety lock that only let the gun safety get turned off by a certain fingerprint or set of them would be neat~ that way you could leave the thing locked and loaded in the bedside table and hopefully your kid couldnt actually shoot it. I would worry that if I ran/fell/scraped my fingerprint/ the bad guy cuts off my finger that the thing might not unlock and work.
Balance is needed, and with all the safety and locks etc we already have it seems extremely easy to meet the need to have quick access to a firearm and still keep it locked and out of the way of kids.
On another side- how many cops are killed with their own weapons? I could see this being beneficial there, although I don't believe normal cops should even carry more than a tazer.
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