Notes from the Resistance
Instead of gun regulation, let’s try innovation [More]
Somebody want to tell these insulated eggheads “smart guns” are hardly “innovative,” and if anything is likely to rightfully not be covered by PLCAA it’ll be one of those gizmos failing…?
Instead of infringements, let’s try freedom.
[Via Jess]
Lanore saw a problem and came up with the Gun Leash. Gun Leash is a recently patented device that uses a beacon attached to a firearm and paired to a mobile app. The mobile app runs silently and notifies the gun owner when their weapon is no longer with them. The beacon is a proximity sensor, not a GPS. After you download his Gun Leash app and stick the sensor on your gun, it will send a notification to your phone if you were to walk away and get a certain distance away from your gun. [More]
I’ve pretty much established myself over the past few decades as a hater of “smart guns.” This ain’t that.
As long as installing them is not mandated and it doesn’t allow guns to be tracked, I’m not seeing a downside — other than trusting a gadget to do what we should be doing ourselves. Perhaps someone with more technical qualifications than I have will see something I don’t, for instance, could the proximity signal’s signature “alert” anyone nearby who had a receiver?
It looks like not many have discovered them on X. I’m going to copy them when I send out this link, so at least WoG readers will know how to get comments to them. They don’t seem like antis trying to get a nose under the tent, and they seem like they’re sincere about trying to provide a solution to a problem, so I hope those sending opinions their way keep that in mind.
Gun owners on social advocacy media can be kind of… raw, much of the time with good cause, but I’m not seeing anything here that does not deserve respect. Me, I never post anonymously and I never say anything to a man online that I wouldn’t say to his face.
[Via Jess]
Smart Guns: Looking at the future of gun ownership through Texas lenses – Could smart guns become a revolutionary way to promote safe gun ownership? [More]
The moron who wrote this doesn’t get out much, does he?
[Via Lane]
It’s an after-market add-on to a firearm that utilizes fingerprint and other technology to remotely track and disable guns. [More]
Why wait until they’re stolen?
After hearing young Joey parrot the narrative fed to him by “adults,” I gotta wonder if he and Annika built this soap box derby racer all by themselves.
[Via JG]
LAPD issues warning about residential burglars using WiFi jammers to disable alarms, cameras [More]
I wonder if some day carjackers and robbers will go high tech…
[Via WiscoDave]
Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossible [More]
And firing guns… don’t forget firing guns!
Yeah, listen to the guy who says he “led economic development strategy under two mayors of Washington, DC,” as if that’s a plus.
Tell you what, Zippy, you control yourself and I’ll control me.
I’m not asking for agreement.
[Via Michael G]
Suspected Foreign Gangs Breaking Into American Homes… What makes the group particularly dangerous is its practice of using jamming devices to incapacitate security systems and cellular phone communications in the target homes. [More]
How soft your fields so green
Can whisper tales of gore
Of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords
You know what would really help them out? Electronic activation on guns!
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority.
[Via Michael G]
They bought a Fortress Quick Access Safe with a biometric lock, requiring a fingerprint to unlock. But on Jan. 8, 2022, Carson managed to open the safe. He got ahold of the gun inside and shot himself. [More]
Deliberately or ignorantly? If the former, there are plenty of other ways. If the latter, what kind of development appropriate training did he receive?
I’ve got all kinds of other questions, including was the safe defective or didn’t the parents know how to set it up for fingerprint recognition and they’re now blaming the manufacturer?
I’m also recalling how relying on childproof caps actually led to an increase in accidental poisonings.
Relying exclusively on smart safes or smart guns is just dumb.
[Via Jess]
What the NTSB wants is to require systems that “warn” when a driver is speeding, as well as systems that “make it more difficult, but not impossible, to increase the speed of a vehicle” as well as electronic limits on vehicles so they “fully prevent drivers from exceeding the speed limit.” [More]
So which is it?
And if they can mandate limiters on cars…
Chevrolet app used to disable vehicle fleeing from Janesville police [More]
And if it works on cars…
If you’re in the market for a car, make this one of your due diligence inquiries.
[Via Michael G]
…this technology could be used by the police as “an `electronic master key’ to `disable’ any `smart guns’ in the house,” and be used as a pretext to “ban the manufacture of any gun that ISN’T a `smart gun’.” [More]
Who would be against giving police the power to protect us from armed extremists?
Thousands of biometric gun safes are being recalled due to concerns they can allow unauthorized access, federal officials said, citing a lawsuit alleging a 12-year-old boy died from a firearm obtained from a breached safe. [More]
So they give it up to more than just the feds…?
[Via Jess]
Robots told reporters Friday they could be more efficient leaders than humans, but wouldn’t take anyone’s job away and had no intention of rebelling against their creators. [More]
Tell me that doesn’t sound like a John Quincy Adding Machine campaign promise.
Or more likely, GIGO…
Now all we have to do is link all those “smart guns” to Skynet…
Accidental shootings by children keep happening. How toddlers are able to fire guns. [More]
Mostly through inexcusable criminal negligence in high-risk households, but you’ll note the CBS/Everytown axis made sure to make the dangers seem uniformly widespread.
The object here is to take things that are virtually universally preventable through appropriate choices and behaviors, like addictions, unwanted pregnancies, and STDs, and turn them into “social problems” that those who behave themselves just fine end up paying the price for.
[Via Dan Gifford]
New smart gun only allows the owner to shoot | Morning in America [Watch]
And sometimes not even them!
If a viewer didn’t know any better, they’d think these shallow idiots actually know what they’re talking about.
[Via 1Gat]
Anyone who relies on gadgetry as a substitute for responsibility, accountability, judgment, and training in the use of firearms is courting tragedy. [More]
Ready… aim… click!
Biofire: The First Worthwhile “Smart Gun”? [Watch]
It doesn’t matter that the New Jersey law is now off the books. What can be taken off can be put back on. And it can take years of courtroom wranglings to unf*** things.
I didn’t watch the rest because I don’t care. It’s a dumb idea for a lot of reasons, not the least being as a tyranny enabler.
[Via Michael G]
I’m heading to Denver today in order to visit a company called BioFire which is making a biometrically unlockable handgun. [Watch]
Why?
It remains a stupid idea that opens the door to abuse.
BioFire was one of the companies that participated in the Kinder, Gentler Citizen Disarmament Symposium.
[Via Jess]
Over the last 12 to 18 months, Lowe’s Innovation Labs has been testing out the system which utilizes RFID [Radio Frequency Identity] chips, scanners and blockchain. If implemented, it would render a stolen tool inoperable which would discourage bad actors and in turn, keep employees safe… [More]
Just think of the possibilities for “commonsense gun safety”!
[Via Steve T]
Uber apparently hacked by teen, employees thought it was a joke [More]
I wonder what a person with those skills could do with “smart guns,” and with any “law enforcement” systems developed to disable them…
[Via Steve T]
Thousands in Colorado locked out of home thermostats by Xcel [More]
Now let’s talk “smart guns.”
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. [More]
Second time this morning I’ve channeled my inner Family Guy…
I may have to reconsider my position on suing gun manufacturers…
