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You can stop "hmmm"ing and watch the sales video. It's been around for about 5 years on the civilian market.

Ship point defense systems do a much more impressive job and shoot down incoming shots.

http://tracking-point.com/

Helps you with distance, windage, and operator error. Make it easy for even a novice to take accurate, long shots.

Not something I'd put on a pistol, but if the administration wants to work on tools for improved accuracy, I'm all for it.

Test it with the military and LEO first, and if it works out, civilians will want to emulate it.

Like this bad boy. http://tracking-point.com/ [tracking-point.com]

And the good news: "Tracking Point Now Offers Financing".

Like this bad boy. http://tracking-point.com/

Somebody in the YouTube comments mentioned that in the United States the gun would considered a fully automatic weapon because of the attached solenoid.

Well, fully automatic guns are not illegal, they are restricted and require a tax stamp, and have some manufacturing restrictions. Also, it's not clear that merely having an electrically actuated trigger makes it a machine gun at all. The Tracking Point rifles seem to have a computer controlled ignition system and they are not classified as automatic weapons. The rule is highly dependent upon interpretation AFAICT but basically it seems the key is whether the ignition system fires more than once with a single actuation of the trigger.

I don't see anything clearly illegal here, but there might be local regulations or laws I'm not aware of.

http://tracking-point.com/innovations/hardware/tag-button The target is not marked by anything physical. The distance to target is measured with a laser range finder, but they don't go into any details as to how the subsequent tracking is performed (and understandably so, that's where they make their money). It could be an active system, where the scope continuously bounces laser off the target and corrects for movement within reasonable limits. It could be visual, where the system guesses the target's outline and then tracks it using the camera. Or it could be something else. Either way, automated tracking of ground targets is notoriously difficult compared to targets in air or on water, so it would be interesting to know how they deal with things like one deer moving briefly behind another, or standing behind a tree for a while and then coming out again.

The summary doesn't explain well, but TrackingPoint isn't a robotic gun or anything like that. It is a system that uses rangefinders and other sensors built into a scope that allow a user to designate a target, and then, when the trigger is pulled, only allows the weapon to fire when it's aligned with an optimal firing solution. This lets novices shoot on target at extended ranges. They've previously done this with bolt action rifles, but apparently they've developed it for use in AR-15s, as per the article. Here's a link to their page about the original system: http://tracking-point.com/prec...

This system isn't guided but you can preselect your target and enable the rifle.
When you aim where the computer predicts impact it will automatically fire.

http://tracking-point.com/prec...

This is just someone who wants attention. Guns with plastic barrels are junk, worse even than low-end Saturday Night Specials. You can get a cheap gun for under $100 in the US. (Yes, the Raven is a crappy gun, but it's still better than anything made on an extruder-type 3D printer.)

This is not the cutting edge of weapons design. Guns with aimbots. are the cutting edge. Right now, they're expensive, around $10K, but they will get cheaper.

The future has arrived. http://tracking-point.com/

A smart gun will only be viable if it provides something else besides a lock on the function of the gun. For example, http://tracking-point.com/ adds something people might want (but maybe not at the current price.) Electronics in the gun could in some cases be beneficial but it's hard to imagine any scenario where it made a gun more reliable since most modern handguns are pretty damn close to being 100% reliable. Without a great new feature smart guns will go nowhere and even with some sort of magical new feature they probably still have little chance of success.

Watch the youtube video posted at http://tracking-point.com/

Pretty sure that's a Gnu at 0:17...