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Smart Gun with Minicam and Biometric Access
StrawberryFrog writes "Ya well no fine, those crazy South Africans are at it again, this time with a "intelligent firearm". You may have heard of guns with fingerprint recognition before, but this also uses a laser to ignite the propellant, has multiple barrels and incorporates a minicam to record as evidence what you are shooting at. It's a very different gun design, and one that depends on electronics to make it work."
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Firstly, is it kind of racist/xenophobic to write "crazy" South Africans? (I'm sensitive: I'm South African born).
Can't we just write "crazy gun-totting idiots" and leave the race out of it? Guns are bad, whoever has them in their hands.
-psy
No you could just have the signature be present an anonymous.
That's not what has been proposed. A ballistic fingerprint database is a tool for backdoor registration.
Currently shell casing from different crimes literally across the street from each other are often not corrlated if they occur in separate jurisdictions.
Shell casings are not a reliable way to track crimes, for one, not every shooting leaves behind a shell casing, and two a rat tail file and 30 seconds can change the markings left on a shell casing without effecting the reliability of the gun.
For example, millions of dollars are contributed to politcial campaigns by individual voters.
A split of %50 from the Democrats who donate and 50% from the Republicans keeps things pretty even.
The purpose of belonging to the NRA or NARAL or the EFF or any other group with a political agenda is to pool your resources because there is strength in numbers. Me writing a $1000 check to John Q. Politician is nothing on a national scale. When millions of people contribute to a PAC or the NRA and that money is presented to a political party, that means something. You're not just one man with an opinion, you're a part of a group who cares not only enough to donate, but more importantly, one that votes.
The prblem is the bottom end undercuts the market for safe waepons.
How many "unsafe" guns are on the market? Can you name any of them? It's a non-issue.
LK
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Shell casing are more often used as forensic evidence than balistics.
No. Have you ever heard of a revolver? Revolvers at least as often, and by some methods of analysis more often than autoloaders.
No once again, anonymous schema have been proposed many times.
By whom? When? Most recently, with the Washington DC area snipers, the plan proposed was definately not an anonymous database.
The NRA always casts this as the camels nose in the tent of a future mandatory registration policy.
Because it always is. If someone wants your wallet, can you negotiate with him? "Just take all except my last $5 because I need bus fare".
The people who are introducing and championing this legislation want to eliminate civillian firearms ownership. There is no point in compromise. A compromise will only embolden them, and perhaps sway a few of the people on the fence. Like it or not, people like to side with the winner. When one side picks up momentum, people who have been undecided will side with the group that looks like it is winning.
One of the nice things about tracking gunpower and not guns is that it sort of neatly finds a path through most NRA objections.
Then you find yourself arguing with the realist. Assuming for just a moment that there is no safety issue. Most shootings take place in geographically small areas. If there are several shootings in a bad (drug infested) neighborhood. Those taggants will be all over the place. How can you tell if someone is the shooter, a witness, or someone who happened to walk down the same hallway 15 minutes later?
I should think you would be on my side here.
There can be no compromise. The reason for this is obvious.
LK
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