Re: The latest on "smart" guns.

Melissa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Someone on a list wrote:
> 
> > Looks like gun manufacturer Taurus has teamed up with 
> > the state of New Jersey to manufacture a "smart-gun." As
> > you'll recall, a "smart gun" is a firearm that can only be 
> > used by it's designated user(s). 
> > 
> > Story here: 
> > 
> > http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/7383979.htm
> 
> They can shove it the same place I'd like them to shove the gun locks they 
> force me to buy with every new gun. We ought to start a campaign to mail 
> these cheap shit gun locks to Sarah Brady anonymously and tell her to shove 
> them up her ass. Spread the word.
> 
> And as for the "Smart gun", if it ever does get developed, it will spawn a 
> new criminal enterprise, for defeating it. Anyone with half a brain will 
> realize how unreliable it makes the gun ( What happens if you forget to 
> change the batteries and they die? Do you die too because of it? ) and will 
> be opening the guns up, removing the electronics, and short circuiting the 
> mechanical part that allows it to fire without electronics. 
> 
> Or the even smarter thing, buying guns that were made before it, which will 
> surely be grandfathered in.
> 
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I predict that even if a manufacturer developes one that they think is
marketable, it will never reach the market.  I don't see any state
giving the manufacturer imunity from lawsuite when/if there is a
failure resulting in injury or death.