bjbarron
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Smart guns are on their way....to New Jersey.
Sixty people crowded last week into a small room at the Bayonne police firing range to witness smart gun technology. Donald H. Sebastian, senior vice president of research and development at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), stood near an oversized screen displaying a real-time video of an NJIT policeman shooting an experimental handgun in an adjacent indoor range. Although there was no applause as shots rang out, the action demonstrated that smart gun knew friend from foe.
Our esteemed New Jersey politicians want to bring them to you.
Under New Jersey law, passed in Dec. 2002, only smart guns can be purchased in the state three years after personalized handguns become commercially available. Lautenberg said New Jersey's legislative effort to introduce smart gun technology should be a national model for the country. Once Congress returns to session next year, Lautenberg and Pascrell plan to introduce legislation modeled after New Jersey's law, so families across the country will be able to ensure that guns they own will not fall into the wrong hands
It's for the children, after all.
Corzine called the NJIT's dynamic-grip technology cutting edge and said that it represented a really positive step forward in public safety. "NJIT is involved in important life-saving research," he added. "There is no question that manufacturing handguns with advanced technology to limit operation can save lives. No child could pick up a gun and pull the trigger. The gun just won't work, and that's how it should be.
I expect that this will see court challenges when it gets close. I've been watching this for a while, and the gun only works 90% of the time (not counting the warmup period even if it does work). Police and the like are exempt, naturally.
It's the unintended consequences that get'cha. This will be the only type of handgun that can be purchased in New Jersey. That means no internet purchases of conventional handguns (Jersey doesn't recognize the C&R, everything must go thru a dealer), no transfers, and no buying guns out of state and bringing them back (out of state purchases must be legal in the state of your residence).
What a nightmare. We'll be out of this hellhole by then.
Sixty people crowded last week into a small room at the Bayonne police firing range to witness smart gun technology. Donald H. Sebastian, senior vice president of research and development at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), stood near an oversized screen displaying a real-time video of an NJIT policeman shooting an experimental handgun in an adjacent indoor range. Although there was no applause as shots rang out, the action demonstrated that smart gun knew friend from foe.
Our esteemed New Jersey politicians want to bring them to you.
Under New Jersey law, passed in Dec. 2002, only smart guns can be purchased in the state three years after personalized handguns become commercially available. Lautenberg said New Jersey's legislative effort to introduce smart gun technology should be a national model for the country. Once Congress returns to session next year, Lautenberg and Pascrell plan to introduce legislation modeled after New Jersey's law, so families across the country will be able to ensure that guns they own will not fall into the wrong hands
It's for the children, after all.
Corzine called the NJIT's dynamic-grip technology cutting edge and said that it represented a really positive step forward in public safety. "NJIT is involved in important life-saving research," he added. "There is no question that manufacturing handguns with advanced technology to limit operation can save lives. No child could pick up a gun and pull the trigger. The gun just won't work, and that's how it should be.
I expect that this will see court challenges when it gets close. I've been watching this for a while, and the gun only works 90% of the time (not counting the warmup period even if it does work). Police and the like are exempt, naturally.
It's the unintended consequences that get'cha. This will be the only type of handgun that can be purchased in New Jersey. That means no internet purchases of conventional handguns (Jersey doesn't recognize the C&R, everything must go thru a dealer), no transfers, and no buying guns out of state and bringing them back (out of state purchases must be legal in the state of your residence).
What a nightmare. We'll be out of this hellhole by then.
