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  • MilitaryArms

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    Good article. I liked the history of other failed supposedly-safety-enhancing technologies as well.
    In doing research into the development of "smart gun" technology it was interesting to see that people have been working on the concept since 1975 and still haven't come up with a viable system. The New Jersey Institute has been working for 12 years to perfect their biometric system -- 12 YEARS -- and they still don't have a reliable system. It took less time to put a man on the moon. Do you really want to trust an electronic gizmo with your life that after 12 years of development is only 90% reliable? To put that into perspective, that's one failure to work out of 10 uses.

    People that support "smart guns" are either ignorant about firearms in general or are serving a political agenda... which everyone here knows. :)
     
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    In doing research into the development of "smart gun" technology it was interesting to see that people have been working on the concept since 1975 and still haven't come up with a viable system. The New Jersey Institute has been working for 12 years to perfect their biometric system -- 12 YEARS -- and they still don't have a reliable system. It took less time to put a man on the moon. Do you really want to trust an electronic gizmo with your life that after 12 years of development is only 90% reliable? To put that into perspective, that's one failure to work out of 10 uses.

    People that support "smart guns" are either ignorant about firearms in general or are serving a political agenda... which everyone here knows. :)

    They all saw the Judge Dredd movie in the 90's, and think that biometrics means the gun will do an instant DNA scan to compare against its registered user.
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