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Gun Rights Groups Say They Don't Oppose Smart Guns, Just Mandates
Lucas123 (935744) writes "When two gun stores attempted to sell the nation's first integrated smart gun, the iP1, gun advocacy groups were charged in media reports with organizing protests that lead to the stores pulling the guns from their shelves or reneging on their promise to sell them in the first place. But, the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation say they do not oppose smart gun technology, which they call "authorized user recognition" firearms. "We do oppose any government mandate of this technology, however. The marketplace should decide," Mike Bazinet, a spokesman for the NSSF, wrote in an email reply to Computerworld. However, the argument for others goes that if stores begin selling smart guns, then legislators will draft laws requiring the technology."
That's complete bullshit, if the marketplace decided (through some sort of divine inspiration) that guns should be illegal, you bet your sweet ass they would call the marketplace anti-american and send it death threats. That already happens to anyone trying to build a smartgun, and apparently to anyone trying to sell a smartgun too. These folks basically just want everyone to _only_ build old fashioned guns and _only_ stick by old fashioned gun laws (that were drafted with muskets and cannons in mind).
downmod hell? Yes please.