“The most effective tool was changing the design of cars, and that’s in large part why I believe that we and do the same thing with guns. We do have to try to get people to act prudently with the gun that they have, but if we change the product, we’re going to be even more effective than trying to change the behavior of hundreds of millions of people.” – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health professor Stephen Teret, Gun safety advocates support ‘smart’ technology to prevent accidental deaths, [at pbs.org]
If only they could make the GUN safer. All of this personal responsibility business is a real drag. Science is the answer!
(Also, does anybody else using an iPad have issues with this site with the page ‘locking’ when the ad pops up? I have to kill the browser and reopen it).
Nope.
Yes, as well as on Windows Surface tablet. Just restart the page
“Gun Safety Advocates” = gun control advocates. Sneaky little weasels.
Gun safety is very simple thing. The problem always involves a firearm in the hands of the untrained or inattentive. Put the same mandates restrictions on parenthood and see if the “safety” issue solves itself.
Coming soon to CA: the Smart C**k. After a brief outpatient procedure and short recovery, you can program this watch to allow procreation for a period of 2 hours, 4 hours, whatever! It’s simple and it’s safe!
Yeah, kinda like that.
probably not more cost effective than a decent safe.
although there may be small market for this type of thing for people with children or guys with angry wives and large life insurance policies.
So does this mean my next rifle will have advanced crumple zones and seatbelts?
How about lobotomy for criminals instead?
OMG! you can’t do that! Why, you’d be infringing on THEIR rights!
Stopped in to the shop 10/19/13. Nice store, lot cool stuff in stock. Prices were kinda high but not ridiculous like Gander Mountain. I visited 6 gun stores in the Bragg area and all had loots of cool stuff. I’m sure proximity to lots of real operators helps business. I saw active duty personnel in every store I visited. There are no good reality shows, but the guns tore was cool and the staff was quite friendly.
http://www.armatix.us/TRS.781.0.html?&L=7
They are also pushing tech that only lets you fire on approved targets
“Hello, Mr. Burgler. Would you mind holding this piece of paper for me? Yes, face it towards me, that’s right … No, you can hold it at waist or chest level, either is fine … Okay, great, now give me a moment while my gun boots up…”
Sure, let the Police and every other government alphabet soup agency use this for 5 years and if there are zero issues and non of them are killed due to a malfunction, I will take one. Thing is no LEO would put their lives on the line with this nor should I.
Anything can be hacked and electronics can fail.
If we are going to take parallels to cars, anti lock brakes fail often, air bags fail and not even NHTSA knows if airbags in cars greater than 5 years old will actually work. This is all BS because it is trying to regulate human behavior. In regards to human behavior, even the founders knew that couldn’t be done and believe that was something that could only be done through religions and churches.
Changing human behavior never works. Look at prohibition or the fact that more people die yearly from smoke related diseases than from guns.
Yes, let’s let the government agents lead by example on this one.
The government doesn’t lead, it exempts itself. That’s one of the biggest problems facing society today. The government does not subject itself to transparency, Obamacare, 2nd and 4th Amendment restrictions, etc. Their mission is allegedly *too important,* and the media gives them a free pass on their hypocrisy. Freedom is an uphill battle.
How’s that “compromise” working out for you, California…?
Can we regulate politicians under the Consumer Product Safety commission? These last weeks conclusively prove we have some defective product in DC.A surgeon generals warning on the suit lapel might save some constituents’ well being.
if ‘they’ want to mandate that all new firearms be drop-safe, that’s fine with me. well, that and proof testing; but that’s more or less all i’m happy with.
Home invasion! Quick, get the gun! Oh shit, the watch! Where’s the watch!
Mr. Home Invader, please stand by while I look for my watch.
Here it is. Why won’t the gun fire? Oh shit, the batteries! The batteries!
Mr. Home Invader, please stand by while I go to the store to buy new batteries.
Most of you seem to have been distracted by the fantasy element of “gun control”. Should “we” “let” violent/non-violent/quasi-violent felons have weapons?
You’re forgetting the first rule of gun control: there is no gun control.
In my opinion (yes, just my opinion), if you take guns away from a freed murderer, he is more likely to shoot someone than if you don’t. I know many would disagree, and statistics would be appreciated, but this is very hard to prove empirically; it’s not like half of freed murderers are freely allowed guns and half aren’t, with subsequent murders of each recorded and compared.
Keeping a man in prison, murdering him, giving him moral and relational support, exiling him, refraining from giving him handouts or financial help are all more effective (though not all justified) ways of reducing a man’s likeliness to murder again. Taking his guns does nothing, or worse.
When a man with a violent history is released because he is regarded as safe enough, at least two of the above are not done (though the last and least effective is done). He usually receives handouts, as his bad history and “minimum wage” laws put him into unemployment. He often does not receive moral support or join a community with a common goal. He has his guns taken. All these things are dehumanizing and demoralizing. He likely will not fix the first two on his own, especially while receiving tax funded checks, but he probably will get guns if he has the desire.
Ridiculous!
if you aren’t a professional firearms dealer or big-time collector, buy the guns because you love them and don’t focus on appreciation. If they don’t go up in value, you’ll still enjoy them so you haven’t wasted your money. If the guns do go up in value, that’s just icing on the cake.
Another “academic” bought and paid for by Bloomberg’s money. No wonder that Bloomberg has such contempt for people. They’re all for sale — and cheap.
I’m a self employed investor and gun collector. I’ve made it to 65 and still enjoy both.
Any time frame can be manipulated to produce the result you want to prove. Any asset class can be cherry picked for the winners to prove your point. I invested in farm land in the 1970’s and it has allowed me to enjoy my lifestyle and invest in many other classes of investments.
I’ve enjoyed great gains on some hobby investments. My single best return was on a Cessna 182RG that is long gone. Hobby investments may gain in value, but produce no income and some have ongoing expenses. Even with my return of over 100% on my beloved Cessna, the annual costs of ownership made it a far less rewarding investment.
Buy what you enjoy. Some will go up in value and some won’t.
Invest for the long term in what you know and hope for the best.
And those bullshit safety regulations are why America doesn’t get the good European cars and why modern cars are so massive.
Thank Ralph Nader and the Chevy Corvair and the Ford Pintoes with exploding gas tanks for all the modern safety crap in cars now. also if you get the chance read unsafe at any speed and get a glimpse of what libs went after before they got a hard on for guns.
Thank you for an informative article, however the falling loading lever seems to be rather annoying. Could the barrel.tennon block(?)and barrel ( basically the front end) from a 1st model dragoon be fitted to solve the problem?
Would somebody please point out to this moron that most harm from cars comes from accidents? And that the danger of accidents from guns actually ranks below things like swimming pools and choking hazards?
The idea is nice. Problem is if you need someone else to shoot the firearm they have to have the synced watch. What happens when another person in your home needs to use it. Each firearm would have to have multiple synced bands. Training, education and RESPOSIBILITY are the true key to “SAFETY”.
“The most effective tool was changing the design of cars, and that’s in large part why I believe that we and do the same thing with guns.”
That’s retarded.
Almost all automobile deaths are accidental.
Almost all gun deaths are deliberate.
That’s right lets put “computer tech” in all the new guns.
Anyone care to bet that the NAS/ATF/FBI/ABCDEF../etc, will not only know what frequency they operate on, but have built in back-doors to turn a citizens gun off. And don’t get me started on what an directed EMP weapon (like the one police are working on to disable fleeing cars) might do to your gun if they decide you don’t need to have it.
Madness.
I’ve owned three pt s over the years and only had problems when I went to an aftermarket “match”barrel. I never had a fucntion or accuracy problem with any of them in ” as issued” form. stls.99 bought in ’99, a used 92 in ’04 and a stls.92 in ’05 (my everyday pistol). the quality has gone way up since the early days of being cheap copies.
If you look at the number of people polled you will find it is normally 1000 or less never more than 2000 .I looked at ALL the polls that MAIG Stupidly posted all four pages of them when debates were happening in my state and of ALL the national polls the largest amount of people polled was less than 1800 and the least polled was 622 .In our state as a statewide poll on expanded backround checks ,that MAIG tried to push with their”on New York City payroll (which they tried to hide) attorney /lobbyist” ,the number was 2586 polled and 251 gun owners polled.So now they make the case that 86% of the state populous is behind them.
This now gets put in front of the Governor who does his own poll and the result was 153000 against/ 27000 for!He Vetoed the bill but it goes to show you what crooked liars these bast.rds are!
“Most gun casualties occur in the course of quarrels and accidents between people who would be described as “law-abiding, responsible gun owners” up until the moment when they lost their temper or left a weapon where a 4-year-old could find it and kill himself or his sister.”
No, most gun casualties (not counting suicides, which are means invariant) are committed by criminals who cannot legally own guns. And while armed robbery is not insignificant, most of those criminals are shooting other criminals over illegal drug business.
Remember, it was stories of gangsters with Thompson sub-machine guns during Prohibition which lead to the NFA. But what ended the violence was making alcohol legal. Most of the gun violence in the U.S. and Mexico would end by making drugs legal.
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Issue these to police. Wait about 3 years. And if the cops still want to use them I’ll be amazed.
The government would luv this. They could remotely disable guns at will, over certain days, in areas they deemed dangerous, etc.
NJ has a standing law that the minute “smart guns” are on the market it’s the only gun you will be allowed to have in NJ. Have fun people.
Don’t you see? If WE would just stop being so… so… GUNNY, then all of those poor little disadvantaged dears would stop being so degenerate! IT’S LOGIC!
Nothing to apologize for IMO. Would Mr. Russell have started shooting up the plane if he had gone through with the gun? No. But then we’d admit there really is no reason for the slave training at airports.
Would Mr. Russell have started shooting up the plane if he had gone through with the gun?
Only if Wilt Chamberlain was aboard.
Frequent reader here…
“Why is this never mentioned, and can you get the word out? [ED: We mention it as often as possible, such as this editorial.]”
This is the first I’m hearing about it… The title of this article caught my eye immediately.
“Gabrielle Giffords and Eric Schneiderman: ” I stopped reading at “Gabrielle G…” I haver no interest in here, or trolling.
Just saying.
I’m doing a college project about Hoplophobia; if TTAG wants a copy when I’m done, I’ll be happy to send it over.
The 90% number comes only from gun grabbers and the drive by media’s wet dreams. Seeing as there are more firearms owned by the public then there are people in this nation.
Sigh… dilated pupils… dilated is a sign of fight or flight… not pinprick…. now if you wanted to call me pinprick anus you could:)
That looks exactly like a Code Pink rally in Santa Fe. Except they’d have had six more people.
Not to mention that Q-pac polls are invariably left-leaning outliers. Candidates put no stock in them, only the media loves them.
Never mentioned by the press, 85% of people think gun murder is up or the same when it has plummeted.
The fact that the vast majority of Americans has no idea than gun murder has plummeted is the core of the problem. CNN will run a gun murder on its front page for days.
Doing battle with the libtard (democrat) media elite.