Anschutz is equipping its guns with a gizmo that must be worn by the shooter in order for the gun to fire. They are also equipping their target rifles with a gizmo that will only allow the rifle to fire if the rifle is pointed at a round target.[1]
Colt tried this idea 15 years ago and was almost run out of the civilian arms business as a result. The same should only happen to Anschutz. You can buy a decent .22 target rifle from Izhmash, Savage or other companies.
This, Gentle Reader, is how freedom dies in small increments. It dies because some company sees a way to make a quick buck out of killing it. This is like the proposal to put serial numbers on bullets, an idea being pushed by the greedy fucks at the company which developed it. The "iColt smart gun" would have been loved by the cops for two reasons: First, you can bet that they would have the gear to make sure all guns around them were disabled and you can also bet that their guns would not be disabled. It would be like disarming the American people without having to confiscate a single weapon.
Freedom dies because a soulless and consciousless corporation sees a way to profit from its death.
[1] Presumably that means you can only shoot at Rush Limbaugh.
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Next step, remote control taser underwear. You're required to wear it 24/7, and the police have a switch that activates all of them within a 100 yard radius.
Like all mechanical and electrical devices failure is possible. I'd go as far as to say likely. When it fails accidents _will_ happen. Why?
People are lazy and that means rules 1-4 will be less rigorously applied
because the "gun knows".
It the firearm is designed and used for defensive application failure could mean the victim or even an officer using it becomes at risk.
Why? Because it was needed and the gun didn't know it was ok, battery died, or it broke. Of course the criminal is using a modified firearm and no restraint.
I'd impose a massive insurance liability on the makers as if its not supposed to fail it's like medical devices where failure can result in serious or life threating injury. Based on that the great idea becomes prohibitive to do due to the risk of failure.
It's an idea, sounds good to those no technical sorts but has a world of risky broken built in.
Common sense, if it were common everyone would have it. Everyday we have proof that it is indeed uncommon.
Eck!
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