"Smart" GunŽs!

[JoshuaS]

I was watching a 1990's History channel show on guns (Tales of the Gun), back before the History channel when all alien conspiracies and reality shows.

They featured something I was not aware of. Colt developing a "smart gun" using a watch or ring as a "transponder" Apparently they started in 1996, and aimed to sell it by 1999, but gave up because they never could get it to be reliable enough, and concerns over batteries failing were raised by LEAs

So out of curiosity, I looked up to see who else had a hand in trying this, and found Mossberg had developed a "smart shotgun". Not only that Smart Gun is a registered trademark of Mossberg. And they still market it through a subsidiary, iGun Technology.

Their position is actually quite reasonable as far as its utility goes: http://www.iguntech.com/position.html

[JoshuaS]

[Jimmybacon43]

Smart gun technology mandated by law is not a good idea. I like that iguntech stated that on their website.

The New Jersey law that mandated smart gun tech is hilarious to me. They might as well be mandating a cure for cancer by a certain year. "Ok guys, we have to cure cancer by 2027 or else you're allll going to jail!"

[MrOrange]

That igun uses a honkin' big ring, and the mechanism in the gun looks complicated, and uses batteries of course.

Even if it didn't introduce another variable for mechanical failure, I don't like having to rely on batteries for emergency self-defense measures. I'm a big fan of lasers, but if they die it doesn't stop me from using the gun.

I'm also a believer in the Magna-Trigger (although that doesn't qualify as "smart" since it doesn't ID the user), and own one, but it doesn't need batteries.

[SonofWWIIDI]

"Smart" gun!.

Ha!

What a bunch of feel good leftist BS.

[Sky_DiveR]

Magna Trigger. Now that's a blast from the past. I didn't even know they still made/marketed that. I used to have one on a S&W 66 and sold it to a cop friend who wanted it.

[FresnoRob]

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It is amazing how these groups are throwing money at obtaining something, without first studying the concept and consulting with anyone other than anti-gun zealots. They should ask what the military, police, etc demand at the very least. But then they would have to recognize what Colt did... doesn't suit the agenda

Not at all. Most of these groups could care less if the gun functioned at all. I expect they would be quite happy with a 50% or higher failure rate if the meant the gun became a brick upon failure