US must invest in 'smart guns' to reduce avoidable deaths, activists say
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Campaigners against gun violence are urging the president and Eric Holder, the attorney general, to take far-reaching executive action by naming the government as a pioneer customer of the kinds of weapons that feature fingerprint-, palm print- or radio signal-activated security systems.
Orders from police departments would also help so-called smart guns catch on with manufacturers and consumers, they said, in the same way the widespread use of Glock pistols by police officers has made the Austrian brand wildly popular with the gun-buying US public.
The technology is here; its not science fiction any more, said Joel Mosbacher, a leading member of the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a network of community organizations that has stricter gun safety among its goals.
Smart or personalized firearms would largely prevent the common tragedies of children accidentally shooting themselves or others with their parents guns, or criminals firing a stolen gun, whether the weapon was burgled, trafficked or snatched from the holster of a police officer, said Mosbacher.
In the latter case, personalized guns would also undermine the rationale for police officers shooting unarmed civilians who try to grab their sidearm.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/15/us-invest-smart-guns-eric-holder
earlier Gun Rights Extremists Threaten Maryland Business Over Smart Gun
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=6495
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)and guess what? Some of them didn't like the idea one bit. Even the idea of a smart gun offends their delicate sensibilities.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172145250
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172140364
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172136253
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)For instance those two cops in Ferguson probably wish there were better gun control laws or smart guns.
Gun people (i want to use a different word than people but I dont dare, I am alerted on all the time here) are insisting on an armed society that is already 75% sociopaths.
They are a big problem