Patent filed for smart gun remote kill

[JERRY]

when will the police start being issued smart guns?

 

[sawdeanz]

Ironically police are the ones who could get the most use, but are exempt from the bill. How much do they talk about weapon retention, or leaving their glock in a restroom

 

[JERRY]

if its not safe enough for the cops to carry, how on earth could it be safe enough for "civilians" to carry?

 

[mgmorden]

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/column-a-personalized-gun-for-safety/2180482
Thought I would share here a column published by the smart gun inventor. I learned a few things.

1. There is a dumb model of the smart gun as well
2. Invented by former hk designer.
3. He conveniently avoids discussing the political issue we are all anxious about.

If what he says is truthful, it sounds like armatix doesn't want NJ like laws. And if the gun happens to encourage new gun owners, that is at least a benefit if letting regular market forces dictate the sale of it, though previous attempts all failed miserably so maybe he is a bit optimistic at this point

Interesting article. Admittedly I don't think I'd want to own a smart gun (and I'm vehemently against laws requiring them), but for the reliability argument - I have to admit that since I have kids in the home my regular "dumb" home defense pistol is sitting in a small lockbox by my bed.

That puts it in much the same position as a smart gun in that the failure of a small battery operated lock could prevent me access to the gun. Now, admittedly I'm not ALWAYS subject to that restriction. When I'm carrying the gun has no such limitation, and many others who have no kids in the house don't need to keep a gun locked up, but I do trust some level of extra electronic locks already.

Then again, even with a smart gun I certainly still wouldn't just leave the gun out on the table and trust ONLY the watch to keep it from firing, so I guess the end result would be that it would be locked up under TWO sets of locks (the safe and the smart mechanism) which would further introduce the possibility of failure.

Generally though, as I said, I'm against any regulation requiring this stuff, but I'm not against the technology in general for people who want to WILLINGLY purchase it.

 

[FAS1]

The real question, is why wouldn't a municipality disable all guns within an officer's proximity or that of a call he's responding to, all the time? They'd use the idiotic argument that it's for the officer's defense, or even to try and disable the attacker (and victim as well; oops ). Anything to get home safe, am I right, LEO's?

I wonder if it could also disable the latest, greatest handgun safes that operate with RFID? You wouldn't be able to get to your dumb gun either that you held onto just in case