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]
One wonders if it would survive an encounter with a Tesla coil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWIeUsnqkRk&t=45s
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One more time again, if they can build it one of your neighborhood kids can figure out how to fry it.
It will either NOT function as designed or be defeatable by criminals…OR it will work and the criminals in power will use it to render honest people defenseless. Either way it’s an abomination.
How many times do you suppose some genius will re-invent the triangular wheel nobody wants before they realize it’s a losing proposition (absent a government mandate)?
This new iteration isn’t the first attempt at “smart gun” technology, and I’m betting it won’t be the last. Eventually they’ll run out of cute names for them.
Or maybe they’re betting on getting that government mandate and striking it rich on the backs — and at the expense — of everyone else’s freedoms.
And yes, it’s worth asking how much of this is the teens’ invention versus how much — from the initial idea, to the plans, schematics, software/firmware, and final prototype — came from the ostensible adults “supervising” them.
The app is relatively trivel in that basically it is the equivalent of just tracking an RFID tag. The second part, disabling, is a whole other story that would involve heavy modifications to an existing gun (if it is even possible) or a new gun with that designed in and I do not see the market for that.
That second part is just sales PR to push the app sales.