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New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law

Posted by timothy on from the no-comment dept.

rmohr02 writes "New Jersey has just enacted legislation that would require all handguns to be able to recognize their owners and only fire when their owners grip them. Gun manufacturers will be required to implement this within three years of the NJ Attorney General's approval of an acceptable, commercially available model. One critic says 'No technology is foolproof--anyone who has a computer knows how many times it crashes.' I'm sure fellow /.ers will have something to say about that. Also on Google News"

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  1. Hmmm. by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 5, Funny

    If guns don't kill people, but people kill people, then wouldn't it follow that New Jersey should enact a "Smart People" law???

    1. Re:Hmmm. by suss · · Score: 3, Funny

      New Jersey should enact a "Smart People" law???

      They already have enough "wise guys" there... and they all own guns.

      So eh, ssssshhh... capiche?

    2. Re:Hmmm. by LinuxTek · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bullets don't kill people... I can grab a bullet anytime, just don't throw it at me from a gun. Speed kills people.

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    3. Re:Hmmm. by Zeinfeld · · Score: 3, Funny
      Now, I'm not saying if they're right or wrong, but to their credit, there is more possibility of it being true in this case, then from say, small arms fire, since the weapon they're talking about fires 30mm depleted uranium shells, designed to kill fully armored tanks from the air.

      Thanks to those communist liberals in Congress you can't get weapons that fire 30mm uranium shells any more. Stupid laws like that are a real bitch for those of us who use that type of gun for *sport*.

      I mean forchrisakes how are you expected to hit a deer if its driving an armored vehicle?

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  2. hey! that's not a smart gun! by Kargan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Every Shadowrunner knows that smart gun technology is something else all together (integration of the gun's sighting system into a cybernetic type of retinal display.)

    I'm sorry, but the mainstream media is just going to have to find some other term.

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  3. Gun restrictions AND tech-naivety! by tgrotvedt · · Score: 4, Funny
    Looks like their trying to piss off ESR two-fold!

    Watch out, he might start writing essays again!!

    :)

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  4. Re:Just what does it prevent? by D+iz+a+n+k+Meister · · Score: 2, Funny

    If all you're after is deterrence, just get a knife. A great, big, "That's not a knife. This is a knife." kind of knife.

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  5. Smart guns? by kitzilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah...smart guns. Now if they can only do the same for their owners.

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