If the tech was available, would anybody oppose being able to customize a firearm so it could only be used by whomever the owner programmed it to allow? Idk, bioscans or something? Seems like could be kinda cool to have weapons only your family could use.
On its face, looks good. In reality, any such thing is liable to come with a government mandated 'back door' that will allow them to freeze the owner out of his own gun.
If the tech was available, would anybody oppose being able to customize a firearm so it could only be used by whomever the owner programmed it to allow? Idk, bioscans or something? Seems like could be kinda cool to have weapons only your family could use.
&**&^^ NO, the tech is not reliable enough, last thing I need is another piece of equipment that requires power of some sort. I'll adopt the same tech as the Secret Service use on their guns. This isn't Logan's Run (for those old enough to remember).If the tech was available, would anybody oppose being able to customize a firearm so it could only be used by whomever the owner programmed it to allow? Idk, bioscans or something? Seems like could be kinda cool to have weapons only your family could use.
I would, because if it fails, then you are dead .....
Would you carry such tech on the job ?????
I don't mind options. I don't like mandates. So I am not against the so called smart gun. For an EDC I can see benefits and drawbacks. The main benefit I can see is an inability to be used by someone you do not think can be trusted. The main drawback is it may not be used by someone you think can be trusted.
If the tech fails, the weapon reverts to condition in which anybody could use it.
I think it is far more likely a bad guy will kill you with your own gun, than a good guy (who isn't carrying) picking up your gun and saving your butt
Tell me then, how does this help? If the tech fails and anyone can use the gun, how does the gun know that the bad guy picked it up rather than a good guy trying to save my butt?
Mike
My concerns with this ...
Any firearm with this "technology" is going to require power of some kind. Do I now need to keep my gun charged? Does that mean it sits on the nightstand in plain view along with my cell phone and clock radio? This whole thing sounds good on the surface but is just impractical when implemented.
How many users can I enable my gun to respond to? For example, suppose that my MIL is house sitting while we're away on vacation and I cannot take my gun with me. I suppose I'd have to program the gun for her access should she need it. Alternatively, she'd have to bring her own gun. Not a big deal but more of an annoyance.
What if the technology fails? What if there is a delay in "enabling" the gun? If I have an active shooter coming at me, I'm not going to have the presence of mind to carefully place my finger prints or whatever where needed to make it go bang, I have a split second to react.
If these tech guns were universally implemented, black market guns would surface and not just the ones we know today but homemade, DIY devices. It wouldn't be terribly hard to mill a "working" device that could fire a round.
Finally, what will all of this technology do to the price of these guns? It would seem this technology would increase the price and put an alleged "safe" gun out of reach for the common home defense buyer.
Mike
Any of my fellow older gun nuts remember this nonsense from the 1960s? The Magna Technology with the coded rings? Police Departments across the land were very quick to . . . reject it out of hand.
If Obama thinks this is such a brilliant idea, why not a EA for the United States Secret Service, especially all those clustered around Kenwood, to adapt this technology?
Geez, fine here's the pitch.
"Nuclear-powered, non-radiation, bio-signature gun! Will last 1000 years from power source. Bio-engineered, so that any proximity of less than one inch, and the gun will fire, for approved users. Customizable, so that up to 500 friends and family can use with inputted bio-signatures, in as little as 2 minutes! And if your power source should ever fail, gun immediately reverts to a standard firearm, with no delay.
NOW, if that tech were available, would you be interested?
If the tech was available, would anybody oppose being able to customize a firearm so it could only be used by whomever the owner programmed it to allow?
Wow, Kut - I was trying to share what I find serious concerns and perhaps what others may find concerning as well. No need for that kind of reply.
I'll keep it simple from here on out. With regards to technology adapted to my personal protection firearm, I will NOT be on the cutting edge to any such device that could put my life or the lives of my family in jeopardy. Ask me in 5 years once this technology is proven effective.