Didn't a ton of people panic over the "lawyer locks" or "Hilary holes" or whatever you want to call them? As I recall, the sky was falling and our freedoms were in clear and present danger because every gun was going to be required to have a lock manufactured into it. Look how that ended up playing out.
Chiappa adding RFID chips to their guns
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As I understand, some HK pistols have had RFID chips in them since maybe as early as 2006.
5 years later and it turned into a non-issue until this Chiappa scandal.
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Okay, did some more research on the RFID thing from HK, just because I was curious.
Turns out that for a while, HK offered the RFID chip as an option for Law Enforcement agencies ONLY.
The idea was, if that particular department or agency had strict enough practice and qualification policies, (IE, you WILL practice only on the department range, you WILL practice only with ammo we issue you, and you WILL fire x-number of rounds every time you practice) they could keep track of the round count of each handgun just by scanning the RFID chip each time the handgun is brought to the range to practice. The RFID wouldn't actually STORE that data, the computer software would just add a certain number of rounds to the round count in the database each time that specific RFID chip was scanned at the range.
Sig actually offered the same thing for a while, but in either case the idea was greeted with an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm, to the point that Sig apparently never produced a single handgun with an RFID chip in it, and HK dropped the idea also, and ceased to keep track of which of their handguns had RFID chips, and which did not when they were imported.
Turns out that for a while, HK offered the RFID chip as an option for Law Enforcement agencies ONLY.
The idea was, if that particular department or agency had strict enough practice and qualification policies, (IE, you WILL practice only on the department range, you WILL practice only with ammo we issue you, and you WILL fire x-number of rounds every time you practice) they could keep track of the round count of each handgun just by scanning the RFID chip each time the handgun is brought to the range to practice. The RFID wouldn't actually STORE that data, the computer software would just add a certain number of rounds to the round count in the database each time that specific RFID chip was scanned at the range.
Sig actually offered the same thing for a while, but in either case the idea was greeted with an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm, to the point that Sig apparently never produced a single handgun with an RFID chip in it, and HK dropped the idea also, and ceased to keep track of which of their handguns had RFID chips, and which did not when they were imported.
We are one sour election from having our gun rights stripped. Anyone who thinks the anti-gun activists and politicians and, yes, police bureaucracies wouldn't demand RFID tracking of firearms--probably as a stepping stone to finding the guns once they've illegalized them--is MUCHO naive.
At this point, the technology isn't there to do anything practical along these lines.
The RFID tags that will allow tracking/reading at any thing past a few inches are about as large as a typical pistol and the ones that are small enough to conceal can only be read a few inches away by any reader that could be remotely described as practical.
Chiappa made an inventory control decision, nothing more. This kind of thing only gets blown out of proportion because people don't understand the technology (and the limitations of the technology) behind the tiny RFID tags used for inventory control.
I don't see what the bIg deal is........because some hacker with a boat load of custom equipment and a pringles can-tenna might find out you have a gun from 300' away...?
cant the government use them to find our guns when the day comes when they are all banned and we are ordered to turn them in or face fines and/or imprisonment?
cant the government use them to find our guns when the day comes when they are all banned and we are ordered to turn them in or face fines and/or imprisonment?
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When the thread turns to gibbering paranoia instead of thoughtful, it's time to close it.
I'm not sure how this one survived so long.
I'm not sure how this one survived so long.
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