Re: The latest on "smart" guns.

"Melissa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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.

I thought everyone wanted smart guns so they could just leave them on the
coffee table loaded and not worry that toddlers might get them. And if they
were REALLY smart, you could start aiming loaded guns at people too.

After all, if Microsoft can make Windows so fool proof and reliable, there
is no reason at all to worry about the smart guns.