"Exclusive: Smart guns finally arriving in U.S., seeking to shake up firearms market"

pinkbunny said:
Good. That NJ law was my main concern about smart guns. Granted, it's always possible that California or some such could pass a new law saying only smart guns, but we can't see the future. More innovation is good, imo.

It'll be interesting to see if this leads to more integration of electronics into guns. Electronic triggers, electronic hammers/strikers. Electronic primers, or caseless ammo. built in batteries for built in red dots/lights.

WIll be interesting. I doubt it will happen any decade soon, gun owners are loathe to change, but would be interesting, kinda like that Remington Etronx.
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I'm not so sure anything of this nature is a "good" thing, in as much that technology is a fickle SOB, and awful unreliable at many times. I would hate to depend on too much technological integration where firearms are concerned. Sure it is inevitable, but definitely don't want to rush it. However, the new targeting systems the armed forces are tinkering with is most definitely of interest. I find that tech fascinating.
 
Button Pusher said:
Does your wife have a sister? (only joking).
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She must, because I married her lol. (Just kidding honey) [emoji2957]


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CL2ALVR said:
I'm not so sure anything of this nature is a "good" thing, in as much that technology is a fickle SOB, and awful unreliable at many times. I would hate to depend on too much technological integration where firearms are concerned. Sure it is inevitable, but definitely don't want to rush it. However, the new targeting systems the armed forces are tinkering with is most definitely of interest. I find that tech fascinating.
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No doubt. Maybe it's the influence of C&Rsenal and ForgottenWeapons, but I love the firearms of 1886-1930, when they were still working out what worked and what didn't, and some truly innovative stuff came out.

There's a lot of interesting, quirky routes they could go.

Electronic triggers, where you can set the ounce or poundage with an electronic scale?
Electronic primers, to cut dwell time down to nothing, for precision shooting?
Experimenting with caseless ammo, or square ammo, or polymer cased ammo, that's indpendent of regular boxer primer conventions, with more modern technology than the clockwork nightmare of the H&K G11?
Red dots built into the frame and slide of the pistol, designed to be snag free for drawing from a holster?
Lower profile slide designs, without the need for firing pins and springs?

Lot of quirky ways they could take working electronics into guns. Will most be dead ends? Sure, but quirky is fun. Likely unreliable, but fun.
 
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rdinatal said:
Don't forget the "shut down" code. Only the .gov will have it.
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You're short sighted on this

You: "hold on, Mr. Bump-in-the-night, let me unlock my $2,000 gun with my $1,000 phone"
App: "please update to the latest version in order to proceed"
App: "cannot download or install update, please reinstall"
App store: "this app has violated our terms of use and is no longer available"
you: "I use android, so I'll just sideload the app!"
GoDaddy: "We at GoDaddy do not endorse violence and have suspended this website's account"
You: "I'll use google to find their new site"
Google: "look at our interactive doodle. also, we have hidden some results"
DuckDuckGo: "HEY! LOOK AT US! WE KNOW STUFF! WE CAN TELL YOU THE NEW WEBSITE! DON'T EVEN ASK, HERE IT IS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS HOW GREAT WE ARE."
NewWebsite: "Please log in to verify your account"
NewWebsite: "Your payment information is unavailable, please update your credit card information to continue"
BankOfAmerica: "Somos en la Banco De América creer que la futura debe ser libre de la violencia de armas, y por eso vamos a terminar este servicio"
HomeInvader: "MY HI-POINT .380 DON'T QUIT"

me: "my spanish is terrible."
 
Have no interest in any smart gun technology. If people would store their firearms properly then kids would not have access.
Three way redundant access methods, three ways to fail. Holding my gun while trying to open a phone application, no thanks.

The fingerprint reader unlocks the gun in microseconds, but since it may not work when wet or in other adverse conditions, the PIN pad is there as a backup. LodeStar did not demonstrate the near-field communication signal, but it would act as a secondary backup, enabling the gun as quickly as users can open the app on their phones.
 
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None of which will keep it from being stolen.

And once it's stolen, people have all the time in the world to defeat this.
 
me using my fingerprint reader

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