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Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu)
Lucas123 writes: A new survey from Johns Hopkins revealed that 59% percent of Americans, if they were to buy a new handgun, are willing to purchase a smart gun. More surprisingly, the web-based survey of almost 4,000 people found that four in 10 gun owners and 56% of political conservatives would buy a smart gun. "The results of this study show that there is potentially a large commercial market for smart gun technology," said Julia Wolfson. "This has been one of the biggest arguments against smart guns, that people just don't want them. This research shows otherwise."
I would like to be able to track location and remotely discharge via iPhone or Android. Also, keeping logs of maintenance and cleaning and also monitoring how much ammunition is loaded at any time would be useful. I'd also like to be able to disable the firearm (temporarily or permanently) remotely.
I'll think about it when the police and secret service are forced to use nothing but these so-called "smart" guns. You can bet your ass that they'll be exempted from any such requirement.
This is an ex-parrot!
About RFID and GPS: Do you think a criminal would hesitate for even a second to carry a jamming device if he knew the homeowner/cop had this tech?
Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?
Cops are taught not to do that though. The thing I am saddened about cops is their terrible aim, we used to let the PD of pop. 180,000 town use our club's gun range a few days a month, they would shoot at half the 50 foot range's distance, and still they were spraying ammo in three foot groups under stress of timed fire and reload scenario. disgusting. the worst of us club members could at least keep it on standard 10.5x12" bullseye paper at 50 foot
> Who would NOT be in favour of a "childproof" gun?
Google for news articles about the Armatix IP1 smart gun. It's a "smart gun" that requires the user to wear a watch with an authorized RFID chip in order to fire. When a gun shop here in California put it on sale a couple years back, the NRA crowd completely flipped their shit. The store was subject to boycotts. And the owners received hate mail and death threats. And it wasn't just from Californians. Gun nutters nationwide came out of the woodwork to threaten the store and its owners. I believe there were a few other gun shops in other states that tried to sell it and fell victim to other, similar, campaigns as well. All of said stores, AFAIK, took it back off the market; not because of any known technical or safety deficiency, but because their livelihoods and lives were threatened.
So yeah... Not only does the gun nut crowd have no interest in a childproof gun for themselves; they don't want anyone *else* to be able to own one either. (Oh, the irony.)
Imagine all the people...