Re: The latest on "smart" guns.

"Randy Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  doth postedeth:

> 
> "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.
> 
> 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.

When the batteries died, so would you. The one fatal flaw problem they 
won't solve with them.

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