Richbaker
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A gun with a Piezo-electric powered RFID chip could ALWAYS be transmitting...think about it.
Secondly, any RFID system powerful enough to blanket the entire USA would need more energy than humans are able to generate in a century, and it would cook all unshielded electronics, plus maybe our brains.
So it's not a concern now.
...but when the technology improves?....
The purpose for which the RFID is being employed is going to determine how high the quality is. A high quality RFID chip to track some toilet paper at walmart just doesn't make sense.
Whatever RFID technology the future holds, one thing is for certain. Removing or disabling a tracking device in your firearm will be a FELONY.
Just like removing a serial number is now.
By the argument they will make, no more so than serial numbers already used. Thier argument would be it is just an electronic serial number.What we need to be mindful of is laws regarding RFID or any other 'snooper' technology (automotive black boxes, etc). When our congress critters start proposing them as mandatory, we need to worry. I'm sure their are some constitutional issues involved here.
Whatever RFID technology the future holds, one thing is for certain. Removing or disabling a tracking device in your firearm will be a FELONY.
Perhaps someone just edited that out of the Wikipedia article, but it currently says, "Similar technology, such as the IFF transponder invented by the United Kingdom in 1939, was routinely used by the allies in World War II to identify airplanes as friend or foe." It later says, "Mario Cardullo's U.S. Patent 3,713,148 in 1973 was the first true ancestor of modern RFID; a passive radio transponder with memory." I'm not sure how you got RFID being used in WWII out of that, unless the article was changed. IFF Transponders are not the same thing as RFID.Grandpa Shooter said:This is a somewhat long, but fascinating look at RFID. It states that RFID was used during WWII
Why exactly would you compare a gun owner to a sex offender? Is that how you view your fellow gun owners on this board?SamTuckerMTNMAN said:heck....why not gun owners?