Obama OK with Smart Guns

[Dead Duck]

"Obama administration's promise to encourage the development of innovative gun safety technology."

I remember these "Futuristic" concept guns years ago and thinking "Cool, neat toy." But never thought a U.S. president would be pushing their development to replace my nation"s weapons with them.









I need to go pet my Colt now.

 

[Llamaguy]

I'm sure he can't wait for the "Lawgiver" to come out.

 

[Rocket]

Problem with RF is it is easy to intercept and to jam.

 

[Martin Draco]

I'm OK with smart politicians....... yea, those don't exist yet either.....

 

[drillsgt]

Of course he's okay with it he loves things that are going to cost a lot of money and then not work in the end, hello Solyndra?

 

[rogerdt99]

Damn Martin - LMAO - almost made me spew coffee all over my monitor. +1

 

[netsecurity]

So keeping the bracelet with the gun makes sense if the unit is all locked up. But if you keep your gun locked up, you don't need rfid, so it is a conundrum. The only thing the rfid is good for is preventing a kid from shooting himself. I mean, if a criminal wanted to shoot you with your own gun, he'd just have to stand close., and if he wanted to steal your gun, he could easily remove the rfid.

So again I say, this is only useful to keep kids from shooting themselves with home defense weapons left out of the safe. But now we have biometric safes, which it seems to me are far superior to rfid. If you have an rfid gun you are far more likely to not use a gun safe, and then if you leave the rid bracelet off a kid could shoot himself--and if you separate the rid bracelet, you might not be able to find it when it is needed most. And what if the batteries die?

 

[Kagnew]

Dumb a$$e$ advocating smart guns. Interesting concept.

 

[SERparacord]

Every gun shop should apply for the grant money. Inventory would be up then.

 

[cobber]

Hows about the govt. start with their own guns. If that works then us peons can get govt.-style smart guns.

 

[Mark 1911]

This coming from the same guy who wants to replace nuclear and fossil power plants with windmills and solar. Not realistic. But then again, who cares about reality??

 

[KellyinAvon]

Of course he's okay with it he loves things that are going to cost a lot of money and then not work in the end, hello Solyndra?

What DrillSgt said!

 

[VN Vet]

Smart guns are electronic. Some are magnetic. Magnetic guns can be used by people with a magnet, but electronics are easily defeted by the government. Mechanical guns are not. Obama knows this and this is why he would likely say yes.

 

[No2rdame]

In a hypothetical world smart guns would be perfect. In reality, though, it will never work. Just as soon as someone figures out a reliable gun mechanism, a criminal will find a way to bypass it so they can still use stolen guns.

 

[eric001]

I'll believe in smartguns working when someone shows me smartpoliticians coming out of Chicago. Until then, I fear reality may just have to go on as-is.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I can't wait for smart guns. I've been trying to get my Mossberg to do my taxes for the last three days, and it hasn't even moved the pen yet.

Stupid gun.

 

[drillsgt]

The fact that the police and military are usually exempt from using smart gun technology should tell you how they really feel about it.

 

[Bluedragon]

Smart guns you say? Of course he's down for that. Kinda reminds me of this....

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[cosermann]

If Obama is OK with them, then you know that they're a bad idea.
It's axiomatic.