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House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers
Lucas123 writes "U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass) is pushing a bill that would require all U.S. handgun manufacturers to include 'personalization technology' in their weapons. Tierney said he got the idea for The Personalized Handgun Safety Act of 2013 from the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. In it Bond escapes death when his handgun, which is equipped with technology that recognizes his fingerprints, becomes inoperable when a bad guy picks it up. 'This technology, however, isn't just for the movies — it's a reality,' Tierney said. Tierney pointed to a myriad of cases where the smart gun tech could prevent children from being harmed or killed in firearms accidents. Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League, the official state association of the NRA, said he knows of no gun owners who would want smart gun technology on their weapons. Wallace said any technology that may impede the proper function of a weapon is a problem. He pointed to the fact that any integrated processor technology would also require a battery of some kind, which could pose a system failure if it lost power."
It's a terrific idea, particularly if you have to go to a gun shop to register a new set of prints in order to force you to register the transfer of the weapon on a second-hand sale. After all, if it's easy to change the prints, it's still easy to steal and use the weapon.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Our elected officials are dumber than the people who vote for them could possibly imagine.
FTFY; some of us wised up to that some time ago, and thus only vote for third parties (if at all).
It's the non gun owning liberals who propose this legislation. By definition they know nothing about guns. They never owned one and don't know how they work. This is not flame bait but it truth.
Since when is "public safety" the root password to the Constitution?
People dying from suicides is not an inflated number it s people dying due to easy access of guns.
"Another interesting fact, suicides in the US, per capita, is very similar (statistical blip) to countries with strict gun controls, which only prove that suicidal people will kill themselves, regardless of method.
that's not a fact, its what people call a lie.
I am so sick and tired of you idiot fucktwads who no nothing about suicide say stupid shit like that.
You should be shunned from society for a month for every time you post that stupid lie.
The fatality rate among suicide with a firearm is around 80%.
Hanging its around 70%
Falls 30%
poisoning/OD/Cutting under 2%
So, without firearms, even if the same people attempted*, more would be alive.
*The higher the bar to entry, the fewer suicide, and that bar to entry doesn't have to be very high to cut suicide rates in half.
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