The Term Moonbat Really applies:
Sen. Edward Markey has unveiled a gun control bill he says will help reduce firearm violence by requiring all new guns be “personalized” with special features, such as fingerprint-reading technology, so they can only be fired by their owners or other authorized users.
The Massachusetts Democrat says the bill will make it harder for stolen guns to be used in crimes and will reduce accidental firearm deaths by making it impossible for children to fire guns they find Markey said technology already exists to make guns inoperable for unauthorized users.
No it really won’t. Even in gun-unfriendly Massachusetts we’re looking at technology that can’t easily be retrofitted to existing guns, further the possibility of manufacturers fitting this tech to their line is dubious.
Markey said his bill should be embraced by gun owners and safety advocates, but any gun control measure will likely come up against tough opposition in Congress.
How about we mandate that all Police carry these guns for a decade. If the technology is good, I’ll be the first to adopt it.
Yes, that’s a trick question, because the technology is NOT good, is NOT safe, and police will be exempt because they don’t feel like dying in the line of duty.
According to The Washington Post, a German company, Armatix GmbH, recently introduced the first “personalized” handgun in the U.S. The Amatrix iP1, a .22-caliber pistol, will only fire if it is within range of a special watch that communicates with the gun.
Which means if the watch is taken with the gun, no safety. Further if you gun is snatched it can still be used against you, as you will likely still be in range of the RFID signal.
Also comes the really important part. Will it work? Just the other day I picked up a remote control to turn on the TV. The batteries had died. Now imagine that your life depended on that TV turning on EVERY time.
That’s what we’re talking about here. Of course the Junior Senator doesn’t care about your life…he’s a “Progressive” of course!
Well, this is certainly retarded. No surprise it comes from Mahkey. Dude’s been living in fantasyland long enough. Too much exhaust, not enough ventilation in the Callahan tunnel, mark my words.
Also, for someone like me, on or in the water his whole life, who has no fingerprints except for on my pinky fingers and one ring finger, a reader, even if it existed, would not work. You can bet your sweet patoot there’d be an ADA suit faster than you can say Free Money. I already have to get a special waiver from DHS because biometric port access cards will never work for me.
Hell the Mass Department of Public Safety has scrapped the fingerprint readers used to verify your FID/LTC when buying a gun. They worked well for me, even when I was working off shore, but the dealers constantly complained about them, and I watched countless people trying to remember their PIN when the reader failed.
I bought a biometric safe. It works about 10% of the time. I bet I can improve that by recording multiple instances of my fingerprint, but it will never get good enough to rely on. I practice the keypad instead, and completely wrote off the scanner.
I can see the safety nannies loobying to add a “kill switch” to the electronics too. So the government can “disable the gun when it is stolen.” Or if Big Brother or some hacker decides to turn everyones gun off.
Just like my senatrix is trying to add kill switches to everyones phones. I bet Venezuela or Ukraine would love to have a cell phone kill switch right now. They’d be able to isolate and hunt down the protesters with less interference or nasty evidence like phone videos. It is so much easier to kill someone who cannot call for help.