CitizenBBN
02-20-2014, 11:33 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/20/first-smart-pistol-shelves-in-california/?intcmp=latestnews
Sorry, you have to be out of your mind to rely on a gun that uses RFID technology to operate. The whole thing makes so little sense.
The absolute #1 thing you want in a handgun or any gun is that it WORKS with absolute reliability. Obvious for home defense but also for hunting and even for target shooting. The most dangerous time at the range is when the gun doesn't go bang when you pull the trigger. That's when the gun will get held in odd ways to try to clear the weapon and fix it, that's when bad things happen. The thing you want from a gun safety wise as the operator is consistency.
Since it's wireless if someone takes it from you and you're right there it will still work for them, so forget it being 'safer" if you are attacked. You're not. Watch battery is out, you're toast. Gun battery out, you didn't check it? Toast. You want to have life and death on the turn of batteries and software and a good wireless connection?
The big argument is if it's stolen a smart gun can't be used by the criminal. Yeah but are you going to store the watch really far from the gun? Wear it all the time? More than likely they're stealing the watch too, then it works. If it doesn't it's not like it can't be hacked, or disassembled and configured to work without it depending on the design.
Then what are we going to do? Recall the other 300 million out there?
Then there is the accidental in home shooting. Yeah b/c kids are terrible at figuring out technology. Unless the watch is off premises a gun vault is far safer IMO.
My Samsung Galxy 4, which has sold in the millions, still has bugs. Mine keeps misplacing the SIM card till I reboot it. You want to tell the guy breaking in your house at 2am to stop for a minute so you can find your watch or reboot your gun?
Insanity. Get a gun that consistently goes bang and learn to handle it well. No smart guns, no rubber tipped chainsaws. Right tool for the job.
For a gun to be declared "safer" doesn't it need to be "safer" to the owner of the gun? The anti-gunners want a magic gun no criminal can use, and so do I, but I won't sacrifice my safety for it, esp. when like every other such idea it won't actually change anything.
Sorry, you have to be out of your mind to rely on a gun that uses RFID technology to operate. The whole thing makes so little sense.
The absolute #1 thing you want in a handgun or any gun is that it WORKS with absolute reliability. Obvious for home defense but also for hunting and even for target shooting. The most dangerous time at the range is when the gun doesn't go bang when you pull the trigger. That's when the gun will get held in odd ways to try to clear the weapon and fix it, that's when bad things happen. The thing you want from a gun safety wise as the operator is consistency.
Since it's wireless if someone takes it from you and you're right there it will still work for them, so forget it being 'safer" if you are attacked. You're not. Watch battery is out, you're toast. Gun battery out, you didn't check it? Toast. You want to have life and death on the turn of batteries and software and a good wireless connection?
The big argument is if it's stolen a smart gun can't be used by the criminal. Yeah but are you going to store the watch really far from the gun? Wear it all the time? More than likely they're stealing the watch too, then it works. If it doesn't it's not like it can't be hacked, or disassembled and configured to work without it depending on the design.
Then what are we going to do? Recall the other 300 million out there?
Then there is the accidental in home shooting. Yeah b/c kids are terrible at figuring out technology. Unless the watch is off premises a gun vault is far safer IMO.
My Samsung Galxy 4, which has sold in the millions, still has bugs. Mine keeps misplacing the SIM card till I reboot it. You want to tell the guy breaking in your house at 2am to stop for a minute so you can find your watch or reboot your gun?
Insanity. Get a gun that consistently goes bang and learn to handle it well. No smart guns, no rubber tipped chainsaws. Right tool for the job.
For a gun to be declared "safer" doesn't it need to be "safer" to the owner of the gun? The anti-gunners want a magic gun no criminal can use, and so do I, but I won't sacrifice my safety for it, esp. when like every other such idea it won't actually change anything.