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"Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention

Posted by timothy on from the or-maybe-that's-exactly-the-right-kind dept.

R3d M3rcury (871886) writes "How's this for a good idea? A gun that won't fire unless it's within 10 inches of a watch? That's the iP1 from Armatrix. Of course, don't try to sell it here in the United States." From the NY Times article linked: "[Armatrix employee] Belinda Padilla does not pick up unknown calls anymore, not since someone posted her cellphone number on an online forum for gun enthusiasts. Then someone snapped pictures of the address where she has a P.O. box and put those online, too. In a crude, cartoonish scrawl, this person drew an arrow to the blurred image of a woman passing through the photo frame. 'Belinda?" the person wrote. "Is that you?" ... "I have no qualms with the idea of personally and professionally leveling the life of someone who has attempted to profit from disarming me and my fellow Americans," one commenter wrote." The article paints a fairly rosy picture of the particular technology that Armatrix is pushing, but their ID-checking gun seems to default to an unfireable state, which might not always be an attractive feature. And given that at least one state — New Jersey — has hinged a gun law on the commercial availability of these ID-linked guns, it's not surprising that some gun owners dislike a company that advertises this kind of system as "the future of the firearm."

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  1. Gun nuts by qbast · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... as usual go ape shit at slightest reason. Calm down morons, nobody is taking away you dick extensions.

    1. Re:Gun nuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Nobody who wants a gun should have one.

    2. Re:Gun nuts by peragrin · · Score: -1, Troll

      A German teenager of a foreign exchange program was shot dead for trying to talk to a neighbor in Montana. The neighbor thought he was some kind of foreigner who was going to hurt him.

      Another stat that gun nuts don't like mentioning is that 30% of current gun owners couldn't pass a pyschactric evaluation. They are just that crazy.

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      i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
    3. Re:Gun nuts by admiralh · · Score: 1, Troll

      Unless, of course, the Republicans decide that overturning them would serve them or their corporate overlords (see Voting Rights Act, Citizen's United, etc.)

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      Hopelessly pedantic since 1963.
    4. Re:Gun nuts by Charliemopps · · Score: 0, Troll

      The above quote is a not so veiled threat and yes the poster has a right to question whether the person behind the quote is somebody who should be trusted with a gun, - constitutional rights aside.

      and what evidence do you have that the person even owns a gun? It's just as likely some ANTI-gun nut trying to stir things up. There are idiots on both sides of this argument and they're all willing to lie, cheat and steal to achieve their goals.

    5. Re:Gun nuts by christophla · · Score: 1, Troll

      Actually, it does say exactly that. The right of the people to keep and bear arms for a regulated militia (i.e. the states).

  2. Re:They're nuts but right by BasilBrush · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stop selling them to idiots with mental problems

    I think that will kill the gun market right there.

  3. Boot's on the other foot... how's it feel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ironic that the libtards are crying now, while a few weeks ago they were happily leveling the personal and professional life of Brendan Eich for exercising his constitutional rights in private.

    Kind of like when they cry "freedom of choice"
    -as long as it's their freedom to murder the unborn
    -and not freedom to buy the gun you want
    -or the health insurance you want
    -or to take pictures where/when you want

    Not that the wingnuts on the other side are much better, but today the libtards are feeling the effects of their own techniques.

  4. By your definition... by PortHaven · · Score: 1, Troll

    Congratulations!!!

    You've just arrested and locked up every cop, the IRS, and half a dozen Federal agencies. All of which, enact their policies under the threat of to murder anyone who questions them.

  5. Re:They're nuts but right by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Big picture wise, that's not even what guns are. They're a hot button issue used by extreme right wing groups to rile up their base.

    They're also a hot button issue used by extreme left wing groups to rile up their base....

    Fact is, guns don't do a fraction of the harm of automobiles. Yet we don't see the left calling for banning autos....

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    "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
  6. Re:They're nuts but right by kqs · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're gun nuts. Masculine insecurity is 90% of gun ownership. Why else would you want to wear your strap-on in public?

    And you cannot stop selling guns to idiots, because the NRA opposes any background checks for any reason.

    What is hilarious is that most of these "gun enthusiasts" were probably livid when the addresses of gun owners (from public records) were publicly posted in New England a few years ago.

    I'm not anti-gun, but I'm anti-idiot. Limit handguns, mandate background checks and periodic training, and punish people who kill when they fear a deadly bag of skittles. Then you can own your very own phallic security blanket and I can be a bit more confident that you won't kill someone I care about because they wear a hoodie and have the wrong color skin.