Posted on Jan 10, 2016
Smart guns, fingertip vaults and steel safes: Tech to make guns safe
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President Obama is embracing gun safety technology and he's directed the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to learn everything they can about it.
Smart guns, fingertip vaults and steel safes: Tech to make guns safe
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As I've said elsewhere: not just no but hell no.
Why not? 1. Moisture (sweat -exertion or fear-, blood, water etc.) 2. Gloves 3. Passing a weapon to a team mate.
The President asked "If we can use fingerprints to unlock phones, why not guns?" I have a very simple exercise to show anyone the answer to that. Take the finger that is mapped to unlock your phone. Lick it. Now unlock your phone. Now imagine trying to unlock your firearm. Under fire.
P.S. The rep on the video who sells the 'smart gun' retrofit for the AR said it works 99.9% of the time (I will assume thats under optimal conditions with clean dry hands) So..... 1/1000 times you need to open it under optimal conditions it will fail. Sound like a good plan?
Why not? 1. Moisture (sweat -exertion or fear-, blood, water etc.) 2. Gloves 3. Passing a weapon to a team mate.
The President asked "If we can use fingerprints to unlock phones, why not guns?" I have a very simple exercise to show anyone the answer to that. Take the finger that is mapped to unlock your phone. Lick it. Now unlock your phone. Now imagine trying to unlock your firearm. Under fire.
P.S. The rep on the video who sells the 'smart gun' retrofit for the AR said it works 99.9% of the time (I will assume thats under optimal conditions with clean dry hands) So..... 1/1000 times you need to open it under optimal conditions it will fail. Sound like a good plan?
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I agree with you Capt Richard I P., I thought it would be cool to use the finger print tool on my phone. I locked it a few times after running or just a hot day. Unlocking the android is as easy as logging into your google account, but wifi would need to be local and active to access the device. I missed an appointment change the first time I locked it, because I didn't know how to get it unlocked. Needless to say, I don't use it any longer.
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Smart guns don't equal smart people. The Orlando shooter legally purchased the gun/guns he used. He was legally sane when he purchased the guns. He was background checked so good, that he had a job for a high level security firm. Yet - in a fit of craziness, he killed many people. So what went wrong? Would a biometric gun have prevented the killing? No. The fingerprints would match, would they not? After all, its HIS gun. And his fingers on the trigger. So back to the drawing board!
What a biometric gun CANNOT promise is the ability to read your mind. It doesn't know if you're angry, hateful, unlawful, etc. All the biometrics in the world would not have stopped the shooting. No weapon can. Again - the guns are not ever the problem, nor their availability. Even if the waiting period was seven years thats no guarantee that on the 2556th day I won't snap and want to kill someone with my gun.
There are 425 million guns in the USA. Legal guns. Not law enforcement. Not military. Privately owned guns. The time to regulate or reign them in has passed. They are not going away any time soon. Its time to stop pretending theres an easy one-step fix. Put armed security everywhere. In schools, in libraries, in theaters, in cafe's, basically...everywhere. Make sure that armed, trained security are on hand. Had an armed security guard been in Stoneybrook, the result would have been different. Want proof? An armed school administrator in Pearl, MS, drew and shot a "Columbine wannabe."
"But that would give us an armed - fear based society." So? At least you'd be alive to complain, right?
What a biometric gun CANNOT promise is the ability to read your mind. It doesn't know if you're angry, hateful, unlawful, etc. All the biometrics in the world would not have stopped the shooting. No weapon can. Again - the guns are not ever the problem, nor their availability. Even if the waiting period was seven years thats no guarantee that on the 2556th day I won't snap and want to kill someone with my gun.
There are 425 million guns in the USA. Legal guns. Not law enforcement. Not military. Privately owned guns. The time to regulate or reign them in has passed. They are not going away any time soon. Its time to stop pretending theres an easy one-step fix. Put armed security everywhere. In schools, in libraries, in theaters, in cafe's, basically...everywhere. Make sure that armed, trained security are on hand. Had an armed security guard been in Stoneybrook, the result would have been different. Want proof? An armed school administrator in Pearl, MS, drew and shot a "Columbine wannabe."
"But that would give us an armed - fear based society." So? At least you'd be alive to complain, right?
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This is all great ideas if you can truly keep it out of criminal hands while protecting the law abiding
Unfortunately with all technology there are always those willing to pay to steal the keys
Unfortunately with all technology there are always those willing to pay to steal the keys
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