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Nice straw man fallacy!

The straw man argument was from TFA: Julia Wolfson. "This has been one of the biggest arguments against smart guns, that people just don't want them. This research shows otherwise." No, the biggest argument was concerning the trigger laws that New Jersey and other areas set up mandating the smart gun technology on all firearms after it became available anywhere. Lawrence Keane, of the National Sport Shooting Foundation, said "If people think there's a market for these products, then the market should work," in other words absent these laws the gun industry would endorse the further development of smart gun technology.

Incidentally during the whole fight back in 2014 about smart gun technology one was reviewed. They found it prone to misfire and slow to start up among other things. Obviously not a proven technology as of yet.

I dunno about you but I'd gladly take the tradeoff of a gun that fires 99.999% of the time when I want it to if it also fires 0% of the time if someone wrestles it out of my grasp or some less responsible member of the household somehow manages to get a hold of it and starts messing around with it.

In testing, the armatix iP1 failed more like 50% of the time. Would you buy a gun that costs between 3 and 5 times what a dumb handgun costs and fails that often? Also, it apparently requires 15 minutes before first bullet on boot up, are you willing to wait that long to defend yourself?

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No one is against smart guns. People are against unreliable, and expensive "smart" guns, and against state mandates for their use.

A couple of years ago, self-driving cars were an insanely blue-sky concept. Now they're talking like we'll be seeing them in production by 2020. Maybe it's all hype. But apparently huge leaps in development of unlikely technology is where we're at these days.

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The first few models of dumb guns weren't all that great either.

I dunno about you but I'd gladly take the tradeoff of a gun that fires 99.999% of the time when I want it to if it also fires 0% of the time if someone wrestles it out of my grasp or some less responsible member of the household somehow manages to get a hold of it and starts messing around with it.

In testing, the armatix iP1 failed more like 50% of the time. Would you buy a gun that costs between 3 and 5 times what a dumb handgun costs and fails that often? Also, it apparently requires 15 minutes before first bullet on boot up, are you willing to wait that long to defend yourself?

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No one is against smart guns. People are against unreliable, and expensive "smart" guns, and against state mandates for their use.

Even a Hi-Point or a Jimenez will manage to empty it's magazine without a misfire 99% of the time, and they're the cheapest 'gangsta' guns you can possibly buy. The idea this this $1k+ firearm only has mechanical issues is a joke. Also here's the full review linked at the bottom, in case anybody missed it. http://www.americas1stfreedom....

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